In this tutorial we’ll install latest version of FFMPEG in Centos server it will work in CWP, Cpanel and ispconfig and other centos supported control panel. I’ve gotten many requests and mails upon how to install ffmpeg and here is the guide.
FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework, able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and machines have created. It supports the most obscure ancient formats up to the cutting edge.
Its pretty simple to Install Latest version of FFMPEG Just follow this steps :
Ensurer you’re running kernel 3.2.x and above. Check kernel version via this command “uname -sr“
Supported operating systems :
EL/Centos 7/8
Ubuntu 18.04/20.4
Debian 9/10
and linux running kernel 3.2.x or above
Move/backup currently installed FFMPEG :
mv /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg.bak
mv /usr/local/bin/ffprobe /usr/local/bin/ffprobe.bak
mv /usr/bin/ffmpeg /usr/bin/ffmpeg.bak
mv /usr/bin/ffprobe /usr/bin/ffprobe.bak
Download Latest version of FFMPEG :
cd /usr/local rm -rf ffmpeg wget https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/releases/ffmpeg-release-amd64-static.tar.xz tar xf ffmpeg-release-amd64-static.tar.xz rm -rf ffmpeg-release-amd64-static.tar.xz mv ffmpeg-* ffmpeg
Now create symlinks for ffmpeg and ffprobe bin file :
ln -s /usr/local/ffmpeg/ffmpeg /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg ln -s /usr/local/ffmpeg/ffprobe /usr/local/bin/ffprobe ln -s /usr/local/ffmpeg/ffmpeg /usr/bin/ffmpeg ln -s /usr/local/ffmpeg/ffprobe /usr/bin/ffprobe
Change the permission for the files :
chmod 755 /usr/local/ffmpeg/ffmpeg
chmod 755 /usr/local/ffmpeg/ffprobe
Use this FFMPEG and FFPROBE path in your script/application :
FFMPEG path :
/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg
FFPROBE path :
/usr/local/bin/ffprobe
Thats it you can now use FFMPEG and ffprobe Latest version, check version by typing “ffmpeg” :
root@mysterydata# ffmpeg ffmpeg version 4.3.1-static Copyright (c) 2000-2020 the FFmpeg developers built with gcc 8 (Debian 8.3.0-6) configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-static --disable-debug --disable-ffplay --disable-indev=sndio --disable-outdev=sndio --cc=gcc --enable-fontconfig --enable-frei0r --enable-gnutls --enable-gmp --enable-libgme --enable-gray --enable-libaom --enable-libfribidi --enable-libass --enable-libvmaf --enable-libfreetype --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-librubberband --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libsrt --enable-libvorbis --enable-libopus --enable-libtheora --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libvpx --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxml2 --enable-libdav1d --enable-libxvid --enable-libzvbi --enable-libzimg libavutil 56. 51.100 / 56. 51.100 libavcodec 58. 91.100 / 58. 91.100 libavformat 58. 45.100 / 58. 45.100 libavdevice 58. 10.100 / 58. 10.100 libavfilter 7. 85.100 / 7. 85.100 libswscale 5. 7.100 / 5. 7.100 libswresample 3. 7.100 / 3. 7.100 libpostproc 55. 7.100 / 55. 7.100 Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder
