Build & Install FFmpeg with libvmaf on Ubuntu 20.04

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. VMAF is a perceptual video quality assessment algorithm developed by Netflix. VMAF Development Kit (VDK) is a software package that contains the VMAF algorithm implementation, as well as a set of tools that allows a user to train and test a custom VMAF model.

Installation

1. Install Meson and Ninja using following commands:

   sudo apt-get install ninja-build meson

2. Get latest VMAF SDK release from here.

3. Unzip VMAF SDK zip and install libvmaf with following commands:

   cd vmaf-1.5.3/libvmaf

   meson build --buildtype release

   ninja -vC build

   ninja -vC build install

4. Get latest FFmpeg soruce from here.

5. Build and install ffmpeg with libvamf using following commands:

   ./configure --enable-gpl --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-nonfree --enable-libvmaf --enable-version3

   sudo make

   sudo make install

   export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib

6. To build ffmpeg with Nvidia-Cuda support use following command:

   ./configure --enable-gpl --enable-gnutls --enable-demuxer=dash --enable-libxml2 --enable-librsvg --enable-libaom --enable-libass --enable-libfdk-aac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libfreetype --enable-libvorbis --enable-libopus --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-nonfree --enable-libvmaf --enable-version3 --enable-cuda-nvcc --enable-cuvid --enable-nvenc --enable-nonfree --enable-libnpp --extra-cflags=-I/usr/local/cuda/include --extra-ldflags=-L/usr/local/cuda/lib64 --nvccflags='-gencode arch=compute_61,code=sm_61'