Intro
This guide is meant to walk system administrators through the process of setting up ffmpeg, x264, and the codecs & libraries required to run the CumulusClips on CentOS 5.5 (or higher) and Red Hat (RHEL) Linux. This is helpful if you purchased a VPS or dedicated server to run CumulusClips, or if you’re a hosting company setting up your infrastructure to support CumulusClips. This guide was adapted from the following two guides:
http://www.pawprint.net/news/article/105/Compiling-FFMpeg-on-Centos-5/
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=786095
The version numbers of the various downloads were the latest at the time of this writing (9/17/2011). Please check the respective vendors’ sites to ensure you obtain the latest stable version of each library
Prepare Your System
Add EPEL Repository to CentOS / RHEL. Only the core and EPEL repositories are required for this guide. This is to obtains the necessary tools for the install process, not the actual codecs & libraries themselves. Those will be compiled from source.
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rpm
-Uvh epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm |
Remove any of the codecs that were pre-installed.
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yum
remove libvpx libogg libvorbis libtheora libx264 x264 ffmpeg |
Update your system and install the tools required for compiling and installing all the codecs.
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update yum
install gcc gcc-c++ automake autoconf libtool yasm nasm git subversion |
Temporarily disable your firewalls and SELinux
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iptables
-F service
iptables save vi
/etc/selinux/config |
Set the SELinux value to disabled. Make sure your shared library paths are in order
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export
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/ echo
/usr/local/lib > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/custom-libs.conf ldconfig |
Codecs
Xvid Codec
Visit the Xvid site to retrieve the latest version of the codec.
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tar
-zxf xvidcore-1.3.2.tar.gz cd
xvidcore/build/generic ./configure make
&& make install ldconfig cd |
Lame Codec
Visit the LAME MP3 Encoder project to obtain their latest version.
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-zxf lame-3.98.4.tar.gz cd
lame-3.98.4 ./configure make
&& make install ldconfig cd |
Faac Codec
Visit the AudioCoding site for the latest version of the codec.
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-xzf faac-1.28.tar.gz cd
faac-1.28 ./bootstrap ./configure make
&& make install ldconfig cd |
OpenCore AMR Codec
Get the latest version of OpenCore AMR from their repository at SourceForge.
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http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/opencore-amr/opencore-amr/0.1.2/opencore-amr-0.1.2.tar.gz tar
-xzf opencore-amr-0.1.2.tar.gz cd
opencore-amr-0.1.2 ./configure make
&& make install ldconfig cd |
OGG Codec
Visit Xiph.org for the latest version of libogg.
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-xzf libogg-1.3.0.tar.gz cd
libogg-1.3.0 ./configure make
&& make install ldconfig cd |
Vorbis Codec
Visit Xiph.org for the latest version of Vorbis (libvorbis).
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-xjf libvorbis-1.3.2.tar.bz2 cd
libvorbis-1.3.2 ./configure make
&& make install ldconfig cd |
Theora Codec
Visit Theora.org for the latest version of Theora (libtheora).
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-xjf libtheora-1.1.1.tar.bz2 cd
libtheora-1.1.1 ./configure make
&& make install ldconfig cd |
x264
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clone
git://git.videolan.org/x264.git cd
x264 ./configure
--enable-static make
&& make install ldconfig cd |
FFMPEG
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git://git.videolan.org/ffmpeg.git ffmpeg cd
ffmpeg ./configure
--enable-version3 --enable-libopencore-amrnb \ --enable-libopencore-amrwb
--enable-libvpx --enable-libfaac \ --enable-libmp3lame
--enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis \ --enable-libx264
--enable-libxvid --enable-gpl --enable-postproc \ --enable-nonfree make
&& make install ldconfig |
qt-faststart
qt-faststart ships with FFMPEG. No seprate download is required for it. At this point you should still be in the ffmpeg directory.
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tools make
qt-faststart cp
qt-faststart /usr/local/bin ldconfig cd |