ffmpeg-0.4.6

Introduction to ffmpeg

Download location (HTTP):       http://telia.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-0.4.6.tar.gz
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Version used:                   0.4.6
Package size:                   664 KB
Estimated Disk space required:  20.6 MB
Estimated build time            3.32 SBU

ffmpeg is a solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. Due to heavy development, not all of this functions will work.

ffmpeg will utilize:
libvorbis-1.0, lame-3.93.1 and Imlib2

Installation of ffmpeg

Install ffmpeg by running the following commands:

Note: The package maintaners recommend compiling without any optimizations.

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
make install

Configuring ffmpeg

Config files

~/.ffmpeg/ffserver-config

You'll find a sample ffserver configuration file here

Contents

The ffmpeg package contains ffmpeg, ffserver, libavcodec libraries and libavformat libraries.

Description

ffmpeg

ffmpeg is a command line tool to convert video files, network streams, input from a TV card to several video formats.

ffserver

ffserver is a streaming server for everything that ffmpeg could use as input (files, streams, TV card input, webcam, etc.).

libavcodec/libavformat

libavcodec and libavformats are libraries for encoding/decoding video streams and putting them into files or network packets. Since they're well documented, you can easily include them in your software, like some other packages already do.