FFmpeg Ubuntu Build & Installer Script

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/Ubuntu

This guide for supported releases of Ubuntu, Debian, and Linux Mint will provide a local install of the latest FFmpeg tools and libraries including several external encoding and decoding libraries (codecs). This will not interfere with repository packages.

Motivation

see blog post

Setup

All of download sources, build folder and binaries are isolated and by default located in your home folder.

• ~/.ffmpeg_sources - all downloaded sources
• ~/.ffmpeg_build - sources build location, some libraries have their linked libraries and binaries drop in here, so you would see a bin, share or lib` folders inside
• ~/.ffmpeg_bin - executable binaries

Install

Just run the script, the installer follows the sequence from the FFmpeg's Ubuntu compilation guide. By default, it will install all libraries. Depending on your machine, it might take a while - go get a coffee

• git clone https://github.com/rixrix/ffmpeg_ubuntu_installer.sh.git
• chmod +x path/to/build.sh
• /bin/bash path/to/build.sh

HowTo

Quick Way

docker run -it --rm <image id> bash

Best Way

mount a host folder into the container:

docker run -it --rm -v `pwd`/data:/mnt/data <image id> bash

Uninstall

This is a throw-away machine with Docker, so you just scrap the image or the container.

• Delete the image: docker rmi <insert image id>
• Delete the container: docker rm <insert container id>

Tested on the following OS environment

• Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS on Windows 10 via Bash (work and dev machine) before moving to Dockerised version
• Ubuntu 16.04 on Docker machine

Caveats

• Temporarily disabled libx265

TODO

• Make a parameterised build aka pick-n-match libraries
• Docs