installing ffmpeg (virtualmin pro + centos 5)

Submitted by elvis.mcneely on Mon, 06/08/2009 - 17:45

Before I go off installing ffmpeg, I would like to know if there are things I should be careful of, to not do, to mess up anything virtualmin related? I installed virtualmin pro by the script... I saw an old cached post on google search and it seems you need to use a specific rpm?

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Submitted by Joe on Mon, 06/08/2009 - 18:04 Pro Licensee

We don't touch ffmpeg. Is it perhaps a PHP or Apache module? If so, then you'd need to make sure you build against the installed version of PHP or Apache (which might come from us). An RPM built against it is usually best, but from source should work, too, as long as you remember to rebuild when you update the Apache or PHP.

Submitted by JamieCameron on Tue, 06/09/2009 - 02:51

ffmpeg appears to be a library for audio/video encoding and decoding. Since Virtualmin doesn't touch these areas at all, installing ffmpeg should have no effect ..

If you are on Ubuntu or Debian, you can install it with the command :

apt-get install ffmpeg

There is also an php5-ffmpeg package, if you want to use it from PHP.

Submitted by openusource on Fri, 06/19/2009 - 10:04

How can I install ffmpeg and php5-ffmpeg on Centos 5 (in cloudmin) ?

Submitted by JamieCameron on Fri, 06/19/2009 - 12:35

Cloudmin doesn't deal with package installation at all really .. only updates.

And it looks like CentOS doesn't provide ffmpeg packages. But you can get them from the DAG repository .. see http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/ffmpeg/