Hi Folks,
I have spent hell three hours on finding the quick ffmpeg installer, and on my system YUM is also not working
I guess this similar kind of problem will be there with you also. Following are the easy stpes to install FFMPEG on your sever
My System is RedHat EL 4.
FFMPEG installation for RedHat EL 4 - i386
This installation will run probably for all i386 systems.
# rpm -Uvh --nodeps ftp://ftp.univie.ac.at/systems/linux/dag/redhat/el4/en/i386/RPMS.dag/ffmpeg-0.4.9-0.9.20070530.el4.rf.i386.rpm
# rpm -Uvh --nodeps ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/atrpms.net/el4-i386/atrpms/stable/libogg0-1.1.3-7.el4.at.i386.rpm
# rpm -Uvh --nodeps ftp://ftp.univie.ac.at/systems/linux/dag/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/RPMS/gsm-1.0.10-6.el4.rf.i386.rpm
# rpm -Uvh --nodeps ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/atrpms.net/el4-i386/atrpms/stable/libmp3lame0-3.97-16.el4.i386.rpm
# rpm -Uvh --nodeps ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/atrpms.net/el4-i386/atrpms/stable/libvorbis0-1.1.2-5.el4.at.i386.rpm
# rpm -Uvh --nodeps ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/atrpms.net/el4-x86_64/atrpms/stable/libvorbisenc2-1.1.2-5.el4.at.i386.rpm
# rpm -Uvh --nodeps ftp://ftp.univie.ac.at/systems/linux/dag/redhat/el4/en/i386/RPMS.dag/xvidcore-1.1.3-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm
# rpm -Uvh --nodeps ftp://ftp.univie.ac.at/systems/linux/dag/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/RPMS/x264-0.0.0-0.4.20070529.el4.rf.i386.rpm
# rpm -Uvh --nodeps ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/atrpms.net/el4-i386/atrpms/stable/libfaac0-1.25-2.el4.at.i386.rpm
# rpm -Uvh --nodeps ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/atrpms.net/el4-x86_64/atrpms/stable/faad2-2.5-7.el4.at.i386.rpm
Get sample MPEG file
wget http://www.fileformat.info/format/mpeg/sample/031699cb978244b8a3adf1e81cb2ac7c/FORM.MPG
Convert MPEG from FLV
ffmpeg -i FORM.MPG -ar 22050 -ab 32 -f flv -s 320x240 -aspect 4:3 -y
Convert IMAGE From FLV
ffmpeg -i FORM.flv -deinterlace -an -ss 1 -t 00:00:01 -r 1 -y -s 320×240 -vcodec mjpeg -f mjpeg form.jpg
RPMS Taken From
http://rpm.pbone.net/
ffmpeg help Articles
http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/faq.html
http://www.luar.com.hk/blog/?p=670