HOWTO: Install and use the latest FFmpeg and x264

[FakeOutdoorsman]

Worked fairly well on Intrepid server ..

The only issue was x264 / ffmpeg failed on checkinstall with permission issues (i used sudo)

sudo make install was fine though

For x264 on Intrepid I've found that using

./configure --prefix=/usr

will allow checkinstall to install x264 without any errors. I'm still working on ffmpeg. synthaxx mentioned that he had to create a bunch of folders to get checkinstall to work with ffmpeg, but I haven't found an alternative solution yet.

Checkinstall ffmpeg errors for reference:

========================= Installation results ===========================
install -d "/usr/lib"
install -m 644 libpostproc/libpostproc.a "/usr/lib"
ranlib "/usr/lib/libpostproc.a"
install -d "/usr/lib"
install -m 644 libavdevice/libavdevice.a "/usr/lib"
ranlib "/usr/lib/libavdevice.a"
install -d "/usr/lib"
install -m 644 libavformat/libavformat.a "/usr/lib"
ranlib "/usr/lib/libavformat.a"
install -d "/usr/lib"
install -m 644 libavcodec/libavcodec.a "/usr/lib"
ranlib "/usr/lib/libavcodec.a"
install -d "/usr/lib"
install -m 644 libavutil/libavutil.a "/usr/lib"
ranlib "/usr/lib/libavutil.a"
install -d "/usr/include/libpostproc"
install: cannot change permissions of `/usr/include/libpostproc': No such file or directory
make: *** [install-headers] Error 1

****  Installation failed. Aborting package creation.

Using:

./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-libtheora --disable-debug --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libfaad --enable-libfaac --enable-pthreads --enable-libx264