FFmpeg Compilation

How to compile ffmpeg with all almost all possible codecs.

Library Versions

• a52dec-0.7.4.tar.gz
• amrnb-6.1.0.3.tar.bz2
• amrwb-7.0.0.0.tar.bz2
• faac-1.24.tar.gz
• faad2-2.0.tar.gz
• lame-3.97.tar.gz
• libogg-1.1.3.tar.gz
• libvorbis-1.1.2.tar.gz
• libtheora-mmx-1.0alpha5.zip
• x264-snapshot-20070515-2245.tar.bz2 (with yasm-0.6.0.tar.gz )
• xvidcore-1.1.2.tar.bz2
• ffmpeg-checkout-snapshot.tar.bz2 (snapshort from 2007-05-09)

Actually the latest versions of all the libraries was got. Excluding faad and faac. The given pair is the only combination which I was able to compile and make work with ffmpeg.

Compilation Process

Suggestion: it is very useful to start ldconfig after every library compilation.

• faad2 must be compiled (with option --with-mp4v2) before faac
  • Possible problem 1: when doing make it fails with error about missing separator. Fix: remove the target rpm at the bottom of Makefile, after editing the bottom of the file must look like that:

    ...
    # Tell versions [3.59,3.63) of GNU make to not export all variables.
    # Otherwise a system limit (for SysV at least) may be exceeded.
    .NOEXPORT:
    

  • Possible problem 2: invalid initializer for virtual method when compiling. Fix: in files mp4property.h and rtphint.h fix all virtual methods defined with NULL. Example:

    virtual void SetCount(u_int32_t count) = NULL;

    replace to

    virtual void SetCount(u_int32_t count) = 0;

    There are several methods in the files defines in such style, fix them all.

• faac ensure that it’ll be build with mp4v2 from compiled faad. After configuration complete, check:

  cat config.log | grep 'with MP4'

  it must found string *** Building with MP4 support ***

• libogg must be compiled before vorbis, ensure that vorbis config found libogg
• libtheora-mmx must be compiled after libogg and vorbis
• x264 must be compiled with --enable-shared
• ffmpeg

  ./configure --enable-shared --enable-libfaad \
  --enable-libfaadbin --enable-libfaac \
  --enable-libvorbis --enable-libogg \
  --enable-libtheora --enable-xvid \
  --enable-libmp3lame --enable-liba52 \
  --enable-liba52bin --enable-libamr-nb \
  --enable-libamr-wb --enable-gpl --enable-x264

• a52 it is not a mistake that the library is listed after ffmpeg.
  • Possible problem: If I configure a52 with the flag --enable-shared before ffmpeg compilation, then the ffmpeg compilation failed. If I do not recompile a52 after, ffmpeg can’t open shared a52 library because it is compiled as static by default. The way I was able to make it work:
    1. compile a52 without flags and install
    2. compile and install ffmpeg (see above)
    3. AGAIN configure a52 with flag --enable-shared, compile and install