sffmpeg is a simple cmake-based full-featured FFmpeg build helper.
It currently works on Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and MacOSX. It has been tested the most heavily on Linux/x86_64 (Ubuntu 14.04). The helper will grab the latest versions of most FFmpeg dependencies, providing a way to effectively build, test and compare multiple builds of FFmpeg on the same host.
sffmpeg requires:
- a POSIX-compliant system (virtually any system today).
- a recent version of gcc.
- a recent version of cmake (2.8.8+, with proper git and mercurial bindings).
- the autoconf and libtool utilities.
- the pkg-config utility.
Just type the following commands at the shell prompt:
$ git clone https://github.com/pyke369/sffmpeg
$ cd sffmpeg
$ make
Then go grab a coffee (or maybe two). The helper will download and compile all FFmpeg dependencies for you.
Once done, you should get a FFmpeg binary in the build/bin directory (with all dependencies statically linked-in).
$ ./build/bin/ffmpeg
ffmpeg version 2.8.3 Copyright (c) 2000-2015 the FFmpeg developers
libavutil 54. 31.100 / 54. 31.100
libavcodec 56. 60.100 / 56. 60.100
libavformat 56. 40.101 / 56. 40.101
libavdevice 56. 4.100 / 56. 4.100
libavfilter 5. 40.101 / 5. 40.101
libswscale 3. 1.101 / 3. 1.101
libswresample 1. 2.101 / 1. 2.101
libpostproc 53. 3.100 / 53. 3.100
Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder
usage: ffmpeg [options] [[infile options] -i infile]... {[outfile options] outfile}...
Use -h to get full help or, even better, run 'man ffmpeg'
From there, you may use the binary immediately or build a Debian package for later deployment (see below).
(requires devscripts package)
You may optionally build a Debian package by typing the following command at the shell prompt:
$ make deb
The ffmpeg and iffprobe binaries will be installed by the package in the /usr/bin directory.
$ sudo dpkg -i sffmpeg_2.8.3_amd64.deb
Selecting previously unselected package sffmpeg.
Unpacking sffmpeg (from sffmpeg_2.8.3_amd64.deb) ...
Setting up sffmpeg (2.8.3) ...