Install latest ffmpeg on ubuntu 12.04 or 14.04

install_ffmpeg_ubuntu.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Bash script to install latest version of ffmpeg and its dependencies on Ubuntu 12.04 or 14.04
# Inspired from https://gist.github.com/faleev/3435377

# Remove any existing packages:
sudo apt-get -y remove ffmpeg x264 libav-tools libvpx-dev libx264-dev

# Get the dependencies (Ubuntu Server or headless users):
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install build-essential checkinstall git libfaac-dev libgpac-dev \
  libmp3lame-dev libopencore-amrnb-dev libopencore-amrwb-dev librtmp-dev libtheora-dev \
    libvorbis-dev pkg-config texi2html yasm zlib1g-dev

# Install x264
sudo apt-get -y install libx264-dev
cd
git clone --depth 1 git://git.videolan.org/x264
cd x264
./configure --enable-static
make
sudo checkinstall --pkgname=x264 --pkgversion="3:$(./version.sh | \
  awk -F'[" ]' '/POINT/{print $4"+git"$5}')" --backup=no --deldoc=yes \
    --fstrans=no --default

# Install AAC audio decoder
cd
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/opencore-amr/fdk-aac-0.1.0.tar.gz
tar xzvf fdk-aac-0.1.0.tar.gz
cd fdk-aac-0.1.0
./configure
make
sudo checkinstall --pkgname=fdk-aac --pkgversion="0.1.0" --backup=no \
  --deldoc=yes --fstrans=no --default

# Install VP8 video encoder and decoder.
cd
git clone --depth 1 https://chromium.googlesource.com/webm/libvpx 
cd libvpx
./configure
make
sudo checkinstall --pkgname=libvpx --pkgversion="1:$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M)-git" --backup=no \
  --deldoc=yes --fstrans=no --default


# Add lavf support to x264
# This allows x264 to accept just about any input that FFmpeg can handle and is useful if you want to use x264 directly. See a more detailed explanation of what this means.
cd ~/x264
make distclean
./configure --enable-static
make
sudo checkinstall --pkgname=x264 --pkgversion="3:$(./version.sh | \
  awk -F'[" ]' '/POINT/{print $4"+git"$5}')" --backup=no --deldoc=yes \
  --fstrans=no --default

# Installing FFmpeg
cd
git clone --depth 1 git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg
cd ffmpeg
./configure --enable-gpl --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb \
  --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-librtmp --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis \
    --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-nonfree --enable-version3 
make
sudo checkinstall --pkgname=ffmpeg --pkgversion="5:$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M)-git" --backup=no \
  --deldoc=yes --fstrans=no --default
  hash x264 ffmpeg ffplay ffprobe

# Optional: install qt-faststart
# This is a useful tool if you're showing your H.264 in MP4 videos on the web. It relocates some data in the video to allow playback to begin before the file is completely downloaded. Usage: qt-faststart input.mp4 output.mp4.
cd ~/ffmpeg
make tools/qt-faststart
sudo checkinstall --pkgname=qt-faststart --pkgversion="$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M)-git" --backup=no \
  --deldoc=yes --fstrans=no --default install -Dm755 tools/qt-faststart \
  /usr/local/bin/qt-faststart

Thank you! 👍

we can't clone this resources https://chromium.googlesource.com/webm/libvpx in Chinese Mainland. So it need replace to https://github.com/webmproject/libvpx/

Thank you so much @xdamman. Just a minor improvement to run this faster (parallelize tasks on all available cores) every make, could be replaced with
make -j $(nproc) or at the top of the script alias make="make -j $(nproc)" could be added.

Thanks a lot for life saving...

Thank You so much :) .

I love you.

thank's a lot!

Hello,

I want to transcode on my Dell T20 (Xeon) a stream with h264_qsv. It runs on an Ubuntu 14.04 Server with Media Server Studio Essentials 2016th

I am following command input ...
ffmpeg -i URL_Input -vcodec h264_qsv -b 2700k -maxrate 2700k -preset:v slow -s 1280x720 -acodec aac -ar 44100 -ac 2 -strict -2 -f mpegts udp://127.0.0.1:10000

... I get the following error message:

...

[h264_qsv @ 0x3ff5d60] mfx init: /dev/drirenderD128 fd open failed
[h264_qsv @ 0x3ff5d60] mfx init: /dev/drirenderD129 fd open failed
[h264_qsv @ 0x3ff5d60] mfx init: /dev/drirenderD123 fd open failed

...
[h264_qsv @ 0x3ff5d60] Error initializing the encoder

I'm from the "Windows World" and am still relatively new to the "Linux World" Please therefore noob-friendly answer :)

Thank you very much

This is basically an outdated copy of a copy of FFmpeg Wiki: Compile FFmpeg on Ubuntu/Debian.

Thank you, before line 20 you need to mention to install "yasm" (Assembler stuff):
sudo apt-get install yasm

line 18, should change to:
git clone --depth 1 http://git.videolan.org/git/x264.git

ty!!! :D

Thanks for this! Awesome time saver.

Thanks a lot!

When using the ffmpeg command from terminal I get
"/bin/sh: 1: ffmpeg: not found"

I followed the whole process and everything went well, just I am not able to use the ffmpeg command.

Any help with this?

This helped me solve a problem I was having with ffmpeg. I was ripping my face off! Thanks a lot man!

Thanks Bro :)

Another Thank you.

on my 14.04 installation it breaks because of "--enable-libfaac"

after removing it, it ran ok.

ok.... its been nearly a year... im trying to install ffmpeg on my dedicated server from dreamhost. as they told me that i need to install ffmpeg by myself. while i got no knowledge on installing it.

my dedicated server ubunut 12.04 code name precise.... and my ffmpeg version 0.8

how to achieve a successful ffmpeg installation... been looking long time already.. didnt find the solution. try solution given here... but none is working.

Hope i can get answer from you all.... thanks in advanced

It's really really good. Thanks a lot :D I spent 3 days try to install this package to my development board. It helped me a lot

Maybe I'm missing something here, but I install ffmpeg with just this:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/trusty-media
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

@crclayton this script seems to build from source, the repo u point out is an unofficial one as far as I'm aware.

Outstanding!

command: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/trusty-media

"And confirm the following message by pressing :"

"Also note that with apt-get a sudo apt-get dist-upgrade is needed for initial setup & with some package upgrades
More info: https://launchpad.net/~mc3man/+archive/ubuntu/trusty-media
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it"

Update the package list.

command: sudo apt-get update
command: sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

"Now FFmpeg is available to be installed with apt:"

command: sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

That's it. Enjoy 👍 :)

nasm should be installed before running the script. And nasm cannot be installed by 'apt-get' because a new version is required while nasm in apt-get is too old. I compiled nasm from source.

Please find an always up-to-date guide here:

http://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/Ubuntu

This one also has proper instructions for nasm.

Thanks! You are my HERO.

Thanks!

Thanks bro. I think it will be even more awesome if you add "libsdl2-dev" to the dependencies, since 'ffplay' will not be compiled without it. I am using 16.04.