Introduction

The following HOWTO will show you exactly how to install the following packages on a Debian Etch or Ubuntu 7.06 system:

  • FFmpeg
  • FFmpeg-PHP
  • Mplayer + Mencoder
  • flv2tool
  • LAME MP3 Encoder
  • AMR (for 3gp file conversions)
  • Libogg
  • Libvorbis

Do some prep-work 

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install libjpeg-progs libjpeg62 libjpeg62-dev libsdl1.2-dev php5-dev build-essential unzip

Download all the files needed 

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://www3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20071007.tar.bz2</span>
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/17497/flvtool2-1.0.6.tgz
wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/lame/lame-3.97.tar.gz
wget http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ffmpeg-php/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0.tbz2
wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ogg/libogg-1.1.3.tar.gz
wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/libvorbis-1.2.0.tar.gz
wget http://ftp.penguin.cz/pub/users/utx/amr/amrnb-7.0.0.2.tar.bz2
wget http://ftp.penguin.cz/pub/users/utx/amr/amrwb-7.0.0.3.tar.bz2
wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.0beta3.tar.gz

Extract all the files 

tar zxvf lame-3.97.tar.gz
tar zxvf libogg-1.1.3.tar.gz
tar zxvf libvorbis-1.2.0.tar.gz
tar zxvf flvtool2-1.0.6.tgz
tar jxvf essential-20071007.tar.bz2
tar jxvf ffmpeg-php-0.5.0.tbz2
bzip2 -cd amrnb-7.0.0.2.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
bzip2 -cd amrwb-7.0.0.3.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
tar zxvf libtheora-1.0beta3.tar.gz

We need a codec directory

mkdir /usr/local/lib/codecs/

Install Ruby on Rails, subversion & ncurses 

apt-get install subversion ruby libcurses-ruby

Run some SVN queries 

svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg
svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer
cd /usr/local/src/mplayer
svn update

Copy Codecs for mplayer 

mkdir /usr/local/lib/codecs
mv /usr/local/src/essential-20071007/* /usr/local/lib/codecs/
chmod -R 755 /usr/local/lib/codecs/

We also need to secure the tmp directory

mkdir /usr/local/src/tmp
chmod 777 /usr/local/src/tmp
export TMPDIR=/usr/local/src/tmp

Install lame 

cd /usr/local/src/lame-3.97
./configure
make && make install

Install libogg 

cd /usr/local/src/libogg-1.1.3
./configure && make && make install

Install libvorbis 

cd /usr/local/src/libvorbis-1.2.0
./configure && make && make install

Install flvtool2 

cd /usr/local/src/flvtool2-1.0.6/
ruby setup.rb config
ruby setup.rb setup
ruby setup.rb install

Install mplayer & mencoder 

cd /usr/local/src/mplayer
./configure --enable-jpeg
make && make install

Install AMR (for 3gp conversion) 

cd /usr/local/src/amrnb-7.0.0.2
./configure
make && make install
cd /usr/local/src/amrwb-7.0.0.3
./configure
make && make install

Install libtheora (for ogg video encoding) 

cd /usr/local/src/libtheora-1.0beta3
./configure
make && make install

Install ffmpeg

Debian Etch and Ubuntu 8.04 users please use the following configure command:

cd /usr/local/src/ffmpeg/
./configure --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis --disable-mmx --enable-shared --enable-libamr-nb --enable-libamr-wb --enable-nonfree --enable-libtheora

Ubuntu 7.06 users please use the following configure command:

./configure --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libogg --enable-libvorbis --disable-mmx --enable-shared --enable-libamr-nb --enable-libtheora

Now run these commands:

make
make install
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavdevice.so.52 /usr/lib/libavdevice.so.52
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavformat.so.52 /usr/lib/libavformat.so.52
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavcodec.so.52 /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.52
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavutil.so.49 /usr/lib/libavutil.so.49
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libmp3lame.so.0 /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavformat.so.51 /usr/lib/libavformat.so.51
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libamrnb.so.3 /usr/lib/libamrnb.so.3
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libamrwb.so.3 /usr/lib/libamrwb.so.3

Install ffmpeg-php 

cd /usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0/
phpize
./configure
make
make install

You now need to add the new ffmpeg-php module to the php.ini file

vim /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
extension=ffmpeg.so (add this line to the end of the file)

Restart & done 

/etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload