# yum install autoconf automake gcc gcc-c++ git libtool make yasm nasm pkgconfig zlib-devel Let’s install the dependencies for compiling and configuring FFmpeg: Let’s prepare our system by adding the EPEL repository (if you have done this already, you can skip to the next step) Most of the platforms have them included in their documentation or during the installation you will see them on the checking stage.īefore we start we need to mention that you will need SSH access to your VPS/Dedicated server and root privileges. When you have decided which video-sharing platform you will use, you need to check the required codecs for it. In this tutorial we will cover the basic installation of FFmpeg and explain how you can add the required codecs before the installation. Most of the PHP applications for video sharing (such as CumulusClips, ClipBucket and many more) are using the FFmpeg command line tool to convert videos to a proper format playable by the built-in video players.ĭifferent applications require different audio/video codecs and different FFmpeg versions. No matter if they were designed by some standards committee, the community or a corporation. It supports the most obscure ancient formats up to the cutting edge technology.
In this tutorial we will show you how to install FFmpeg on your VPS/dedicated server running on CentOS 6 64bit with cPanel.įFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework, able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and machines have created.