Installing ffmpeg on a server without root access
I really can’t take credit for this, but I wanted to post the information here mainly for our future reference, but if it also helps some other poor fool ripping their teeth out then that’s cool it helps. I’d also like to thank these talented people too, although they may never know my appreciation.
Originally taken from the Menalto Gallery project’s forums and posted by MikeServ (File and first help) followed by edwardotis
wget http://www.mikeserv.org/files/ffmpeg_cvs-20april2006.tar.gz
tar -zxvf ffmpeg_cvs-20april2006.tar.gz
cd ffmpeg
./configure
make
mkdir ~/bin
mv ffmpeg ~/bin/
cd ~/bin/
pwd
(copy the results of ‘pwd’ to notepad or the clipboard. you’ll need it in a minute. pwd stands for ‘present working directory’)
If for some reason MikeServ’s file above goes off-line you can also download it here (just change the URL part to the url of the file below, or download and upload to your server manually should you wish):
ffmpeg for Linux <–20th April 2006 Version
Please note this version of FFMPEG may well be out of date, for the latest files check out their forge project page:
Original thread can be found at the following page:
http://gallery.menalto.com/node/30138
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Run those commands from the command line. (mine was remote via SSH/PuTTY)
If your unsure of what all this is, then don’t worry about it’s probably not for you……….
If you know what ffmpeg is and require it, but are stuck it maybe worth checking out some of the basic linux/*nix tutorials available on some excellent websites found in http://www.google.com