FFMPEG is one of those tools I use when I just want to quickly hack together a video and don’t need fancy things like editing, titles, or a user-interface. Compiling on a regular computer isn’t easy, but compiling for the Raspberry Pi takes a little more patience and care. I also wanted to include support for H264 video, which needs to be installed before compiling FFMPEG.
There are lots of examples on the web, but what worked for me was a combination of a few of them, so here’s what I did. Note many of these commands may require sudo appended before (commands like git ,./configure, and make )
1.INSTALL H264 SUPPORT
Run the following commands, one at a time.
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cd /usr/src
git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264
cd x264
./configure —host=arm–unknown–linux–gnueabi —enable–static —disable–opencl
make
sudo make install
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2.INSTALL OTHER LIBRARIES/FORMATS
Anything else you would like to install should be done now, before compiling FFMPEG. This includes MP3, AAC, etc.
3. INSTALL FFMPEG
Add lines similar to the –enable-libx264 for anything else installed above. This may take a REALLY long time, so be patient.
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cd /usr/src
git clone https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg.git
cd ffmpeg
sudo ./configure —arch=armel —target–os=linux —enable–gpl —enable–libx264 —enable–nonfree
make
sudo make install
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As Malcshour notes, if you have a Model B+ you can use make -j4 instead of just make to take advantage of all four cores!
- DONE! TEST IT
To test your new install, simply run the command ffmpeg . If you don’t get any errors, you’re all good
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