How to install ffmpeg on unmanaged VPS ?

If you own a managed VPS, you can simply ask VPS provider for installing ffmpeg. If it is an unmanaged VPS? You have to install on your own. Here are the installation steps that I have done successfully many times on some VPSs.

1. Preparing step:

Edit or create a file /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo. Add lines below at the end of the file:

[dag]
name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1

Add line below at the end of the file /etc/ld.so.conf:

/usr/local/lib

2. Run commands via ssh:

ldconfig -v

wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

sudo rpm –install rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

yum install apt

Install apt

yum install rpmforge-release

Install rpmforce

yum install ffmpeg

Install ffmpeg

Complete:

Install ffmpeg components

Complete install ffmpeg

3. Install ffmpeg-devel and ffmpeg-php:

yum install ffmpeg-devel

wget http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ffmpeg-php/ffmpeg-php-0.6.0.tbz2

tar -xjf ffmpeg-php-0.6.0.tbz2
cd ffmpeg-php-0.6.0

phpize

./configure

make

make install

4. Install mplayer, Mencoder and flvtool2:

yum install mplayer mencoder

yum install flvtool2

5. Edit php.ini:

Find and edit the php.ini file of your domain as below:

nano /home/httpd/yourdomain.extension/php.ini

add lines below at the end of the file php.ini:

[ffmpeg]
extension=ffmpeg.so

ffmpeg.so

6. Check phpinfo:

Create a new file name phpinfo.php that include lines below:

<?php

phpinfo()

?>

and upload that file to the root folder of your domain and run via web browser:

http://yourdomain.extension/phpinfo.php

If you find lines like images below, congratulation! ffmpeg is installed!

ffmpeg info

Enjoy!

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