Installing FFMPEG on Linux

Hi

Could you please explain and give me good suggestions on ffmpeg on windows based operating systems?

Thank you.

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hi
i want to use ffmpeg to convert .flv to .amr
i installed both libamr-nb and libamr-wb
and installed ffmpeg with
“./configure –enable-libamr-nb –enable-libamr-wb”

but then ffmpeg command gives me following error..

“ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: libamrnb.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory”

what’s going on.?
please help.

nahian

hi hitesh.
thanx for helping..

i used following commands for installing libamr-nb and libamr-wb

./configure
make clean
make
make install

and for installing ffmpeg

./configure –enable-libamr-wb –enable-libamr-nb –enable-shared
make clean
make
make install

now for ffmpeg command i find this message

“ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: libavformat.so.51: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory”

again i tried with this.
./configure –enable-libogg –enable-libvorbis –enable-libamr-nb –enable-libamr-wb –enable-gpl –enable-shared
but same thing happened

but using “locate libavformat.so.51″ command i find following ..
/usr/local/lib/libavformat.so.51.17.0
/usr/local/lib/libavformat.so.51

i’m using (GCC) 3.4.5 20051201 (Red Hat 3.4.5-2)

hi i got it.
i /usr/local/lib wasnt in ld.so.conf file..

thanx for helping

Hi Hitesh,

Thanks for publishing useful article.

However after installing ffmpeg and run at the terminal window in Linux I have got the error as follows
ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: libavdevice.so.52: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Best Regards’
Munish Dogra

Thanks for the Reply.

When typing ffmpeg command.

Regards’
Munish Dogra

I’m trying to install on a unix system/apache webserver. Can you point me to the steps I need to take for this.

Hi I m facing problem to install .so file, I want to install ffmpeg but I can’t install .so file, Anyboby could help me

Monti

I’ve been trying to get the extension ogghandler to work on an installation of mediawiki. It requires ffmpeg and I thought that I installed it correctly but I keep getting the error:

Error creating thumbnail: /home/usr/bin/ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: libavdevice.so.52: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

that file is located there and but I can’t seem to get around this one. Any ideas?

Jack…

Man i just love your blog, keep the cool posts comin…..

Hi,

Has anyone tried installing FFMpeg on windows and integrate it with visual studio.

I trying to run both the encoder and decoder which is in the output_eaxmaple.c file.

It will be great if someone has already done this.

Hello,

all steps work until I reach ffmpeg-php installation.
I use openSUSE 10.3 and newest ffmpeg version and ffmpeg-php 0.5.0

After configure and make I do make test and there comes all those errors:
“PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library ‘modules/ctype.so’ - modules/ctype.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0″

And this error for each build-in mod. And all

Number of tests : 31 19
Tests skipped : 12 ( 38.7%) ——–
Tests warned : 0 ( 0.0%) ( 0.0%)
Tests failed : 19 ( 61.3%) (100.0%)
Tests passed : 0 ( 0.0%) ( 0.0%)

So I guess there is a problem with my php-configuration, right?

Hello ,
I want to convert any audio or video file into flv. T have ffmpeg.exe which is running on windows. I want to run on linux so what i do? Is there any other file like windows from there i can convert .flv file? Please suggest

Hi,
I followed the given steps in this article. But I get the following error ./home/dev3/public_html/vasanthi/ffmpeg/libavcodec/libavcodec.so: undefined reference to `GP3Decoder_Interface_Decode’
/home/dev3/public_html/vasanthi/ffmpeg/libavcodec/libavcodec.so: undefined reference to `VADxEncoder_Interface_init’
/home/dev3/public_html/vasanthi/ffmpeg/libavcodec/libavcodec.so: undefined reference to `GP3VADxEncoder_Interface_Encode’
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [ffmpeg_g] Error 1
How to solve this . Help pls
Thanks

For those who got an error like “error while loading shared libraries: libavdevice.so.52: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory”, you can do the next:

cd /etc/ld.so.conf.d

add another file: custom-libs.conf

inside, put :

/usr/local/lib

save,

then do ldconfig

Seen at http://www.512kbps.com/2008/01/28/error-while-loading-shared-libraries-libavdeviceso52-cannot-open-shared-object-file-no-such-file-or-directory/

I’m getting an error trying to convert a video with the mp4a audio codec. Has anybody got a solution? This is the error:

…..

Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: mp4a / 0×6134706D, 44100 Hz, stereo

…..

Unsupported codec (id=86018) for input stream #0.1

Well, I’ve solved the problem. I had to install the faad library, but it has some other dependencies like libid3-dev, which we must install before installing the faad library.

hi,
Nice information really worth…

thanks
pravin

while using the ffmpeg command I get the following errors

ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: libavdevice.so.52: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I used this command
./configure –prefix=$HOME –enable-libamr-wb
But got this error:
libamr is nonfree and –enable-nonfree is not specified.

So I used this one:
./configure –prefix=$HOME –enable-libamr-wb –enable-nonfree
and got this error:
ERROR: libamrwb not found

I have already installed the AMR, and it located at /home/username/lib, I think error happened because it can not find the lib directory under my user root. Are there any way to tell ./configure the place for the AMR library?

Thanks very much.

Note to above comment, I am using web hosting and no way to update /etc/ld.so.conf.d, so anyone ever used ffmpeg in web hosting server?

Hi I have a question about installation. I installed all the files in usr/local when i tried the last part from the ffmpeg dir.. i get this error

Unknown option “–enable-libmp3lame”.
See ./configure –help for available options.

then i tried just ./configure -enable-shared

i get this

bash: ./configure: No such file or directory

keep in mind i am running the commands from the ffmpeg dir.

so from teh ffmpeg dir i just ran the ./configure
make
make install

i got so many warnings and deprecated warning. in the end i got
install -d “/usr/local/bin”
install -c -m 755 ffmpeg ffserver “/usr/local/bin”

so my dir structure looks like this

usr/local
usr/local/ffmpeg
usr/local/lame-3.97
usr/local/amrnb-7.0.0.0
usr/local/amrwb-7.0.0.2

all the file that i untared are on the same level should they have all been under the ffmpeg. how would i run a test scrip to convert any video format to .flv?

Thanks any help would be much appreciated.

Neveo

Follow this instruction, you can install succesfully
http://www.netbrix.net/archives/20
Good luck

Hi Hitesh,

I have tried installing ffmpeg on Linux.
1.downloaded svn checkout version
2.unzipping it using tar -xjf command
3.Do ./configure –enable-shared
4.Make install
5.make

I got the .so libraries in /usr/lib/local folder
but when i am linking the above librraies and running the code i am getting the segmentation fault error in av_open_input_stream.

I think that there is error in ffmpeg installation.

Please guide me how should i be able to install the ffmpeg correctly.

Regards,
Mayank

HI
all the above were installed easily
Thanx for this wounderful guide but I have some problems in installing FFMPEG-PHP I got that install after that no further commaands runs like ./configure

Kindly guide me

Thanx and regards,

SAF

Hi,
Hitesh

Please help me. I want to convert 3gp file into flv using ffmpeg. The syntax is

ffmpeg -i upload/video/song/test.3gp -y -ab 56 -ar 22050 -ac 2 -qscale 9 -t 900 -r 15 -s 320*240 upload/video/song/test.flv

this convert the 3gp file into flv but flv size is 0kb.
So please guide me and send the correct command to convert the 3gp into flv

Thanks in advance

When i try to execute the comand make for ffmpeg-php i get this:

checking for egrep… grep -E
checking for a sed that does not truncate output… /bin/sed
checking for gcc… gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name… a.out
checking whether the C compiler works… yes
checking whether we are cross compiling… no
checking for suffix of executables…
checking for suffix of object files… o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler… yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g… yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C… none needed
checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together… yes
checking if compiler supports -R… no
checking if compiler supports -Wl,-rpath,… yes
checking build system type… i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type… i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type… i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for PHP prefix… /usr/local
checking for PHP includes… -I/usr/local/include/php -I/usr/local/include/php/main -I/usr/local/include/php/TSRM -I/usr/local/include/php/Zend -I/usr/local/include/php/ext -I/usr/local/include/php/ext/date/lib
checking for PHP extension directory… /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613
checking for PHP installed headers prefix… /usr/local/include/php
checking for re2c… re2c
checking for re2c version… 0.13.3 (ok)
checking for gawk… gawk
checking for ffmpeg support… yes, shared
checking for ffmpeg headers… …found in /usr/local/include/ffmpeg
checking for ffmpeg libavcodec.so… …found in /usr/local/lib
checking for ld used by gcc… /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld… yes
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files… -r
checking for BSD-compatible nm… /usr/bin/nm -B
checking whether ln -s works… yes
checking how to recognise dependent libraries… pass_all
checking how to run the C preprocessor… gcc -E
checking for ANSI C header files… yes
checking for sys/types.h… yes
checking for sys/stat.h… yes
checking for stdlib.h… yes
checking for string.h… yes
checking for memory.h… yes
checking for strings.h… yes
checking for inttypes.h… yes
checking for stdint.h… yes
checking for unistd.h… yes
checking dlfcn.h usability… yes
checking dlfcn.h presence… yes
checking for dlfcn.h… yes
checking for g++… g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler… yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g… yes
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor… g++ -E
checking the maximum length of command line arguments… 32768
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object… ok
checking for objdir… .libs
checking for ar… ar
checking for ranlib… ranlib
checking for strip… strip
checking if gcc static flag works… yes
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions… no
checking for gcc option to produce PIC… -fPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works… yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o… yes
checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries… yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in… no
checking dynamic linker characteristics… GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs… immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible… yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries… yes
checking whether to build shared libraries… yes
checking whether to build static libraries… no

creating libtool
appending configuration tag “CXX” to libtool
checking for ld used by g++… /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld… yes
checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries… yes
checking for g++ option to produce PIC… -fPIC
checking if g++ PIC flag -fPIC works… yes
checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o… yes
checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries… yes
checking dynamic linker characteristics… GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs… immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible… yes
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: config.h is unchanged
root@angie [/usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0]# make
/bin/sh /usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0/libtool –mode=compile gcc -I. -I/usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0 -DPHP_ATOM_INC -I/usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0/include -I/usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0/main -I/usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0 -I/usr/local/include/php -I/usr/local/include/php/main -I/usr/local/include/php/TSRM -I/usr/local/include/php/Zend -I/usr/local/include/php/ext -I/usr/local/include/php/ext/date/lib -I/usr/local/include/ffmpeg -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -O2 -Wall -fno-strict-aliasing -c /usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0/ffmpeg_frame.c -o ffmpeg_frame.lo
gcc -I. -I/usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0 -DPHP_ATOM_INC -I/usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0/include -I/usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0/main -I/usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0 -I/usr/local/include/php -I/usr/local/include/php/main -I/usr/local/include/php/TSRM -I/usr/local/include/php/Zend -I/usr/local/include/php/ext -I/usr/local/include/php/ext/date/lib -I/usr/local/include/ffmpeg -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -O2 -Wall -fno-strict-aliasing -c /usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0/ffmpeg_frame.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/ffmpeg_frame.o
/usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0/ffmpeg_frame.c: In function `_php_convert_frame’:
/usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0/ffmpeg_frame.c:162: warning: implicit declaration of function `img_convert’
/usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0/ffmpeg_frame.c: In function `_php_crop_frame’:
/usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0/ffmpeg_frame.c:215: warning: implicit declaration of function `img_copy’
/usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0/ffmpeg_frame.c: In function `_php_resample_frame’:
/usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0/ffmpeg_frame.c:237: error: `ImgReSampleContext’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0/ffmpeg_frame.c:237: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0/ffmpeg_frame.c:237: error: for each function it appears in.)
/usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0/ffmpeg_frame.c:237: error: `img_resample_ctx’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0/ffmpeg_frame.c:263: warning: implicit declaration of function `img_resample_full_init’
/usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0/ffmpeg_frame.c:276: warning: implicit declaration of function `img_resample’
/usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0/ffmpeg_frame.c:281: warning: implicit declaration of function `img_resample_close’
make: *** [ffmpeg_frame.lo] Error 1

Cant continue, please help

Got the same errors like Alucato.
make: *** [ffmpeg_frame.lo] Error 1
How can we fix that?

Hi I am getting the following error:

./configure –enable-libmp3lame –enable-libvorbis –enable-libamr-nb –enable-libamr-wb –enable-libxvid –enable-gpl –enable-shared –enable-nonfree
Unable to create and execute files in /tmp. Set the TMPDIR environment
variable to another directory and make sure that /tmp is not mounted
noexec.
Sanity test failed.
If you think configure made a mistake, make sure you are using the latest
version from SVN. If the latest version fails, report the problem to the
ffmpeg-user@mplayerhq.hu mailing list or IRC #ffmpeg on irc.freenode.net.
Include the log file “config.err” produced by configure as this will help
solving the problem.

Please help me