source: multimedia/videoutils/ffmpeg.xml@ 05bb3720

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY ffmpeg-download-http
           "http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-&ffmpeg-version;.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY ffmpeg-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY ffmpeg-md5sum        "2719ab2b3311ac3775b9cdeb66c54849">
  <!ENTITY ffmpeg-size          "6.4 MB">
  <!ENTITY ffmpeg-buildsize     "114 MB (additional 710 MB for docs and 1.5 GB
                                 for tests)">
  <!ENTITY ffmpeg-time          "3.1 SBU (additional 0.6 SBU for docs 12.3 to
                                 run the tests, after test files are downloaded)">
]>

<sect1 id="ffmpeg" xreflabel="FFmpeg-&ffmpeg-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="ffmpeg.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>FFmpeg-&ffmpeg-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ffmpeg">
    <primary sortas="a-FFmpeg">FFmpeg</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to FFmpeg</title>

    <para>
      <application>FFmpeg</application> is a solution to record, convert and
      stream audio and video. It is a very fast video and audio converter and it
      can also acquire from a live audio/video source. Designed to be intuitive,
      the command-line interface (<command>ffmpeg</command>) tries to figure out
      all the parameters, when possible. <application>FFmpeg</application> can
      also convert from any sample rate to any other, and resize video on the
      fly with a high quality polyphase filter.
      <application>FFmpeg</application> can use a Video4Linux compatible video
      source and any Open Sound System audio source.
    </para>

    &lfs74_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&ffmpeg-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&ffmpeg-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &ffmpeg-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &ffmpeg-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &ffmpeg-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &ffmpeg-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Required patch (in case you build with freetype support):
          <ulink url="&patch-root;/ffmpeg-&ffmpeg-version;freetype-1.patch"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">FFmpeg Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="yasm"/>,
      <xref linkend="libass"/>,
      <xref linkend="fdk-aac"/>,
      <xref linkend="lame"/>,
      <xref linkend="opus"/>,
      <xref linkend="libtheora"/>,
      <xref linkend="libvorbis"/>,
      <xref linkend="libvpx"/>, and
      <xref linkend="x264"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended for desktop use</bridgehead>
    <para>
      <xref linkend="x-window-system"/>,
      <xref linkend="alsa-lib"/>,
      <xref linkend="sdl"/>,
      <xref linkend="libva"/> and
      <xref linkend="libvdpau"/> (with the corresponding driver package)
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="faac"/>,
      <xref linkend="freetype2"/>,
      <xref linkend="openjpeg"/>,
      <xref linkend="pulseaudio"/>,
      <xref linkend="speex"/>,
      <xref linkend="xvid"/>,
      <xref linkend="openssl"/>,
      <xref linkend="fontconfig"/>,
      <ulink url="http://www.piksel.org/frei0r">frei0r</ulink>,
      <xref linkend="gnutls"/>,
      <ulink url="http://www.ladspa.org/">LADSPA</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://www.libssh.org/">libssh</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://zapping.sourceforge.net/ZVBI/">ZVBI</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://tipok.org.ua/node/17">libaacplus</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/libbluray.html">libbluray</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://caca.zoy.org/">libcaca</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://www.celt-codec.org/">libcelt</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libcdio/">libcdio</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libdc1394">libdc1394</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/flite/">Flite</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://www.quut.com/gsm/">GSM</ulink>,
      <ulink url="https://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Libraries">libiec61883</ulink>,
      <ulink url="https://github.com/dekkers/libilbc">libilbc</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/modplug-xmms/">libmodplug</ulink>,
      <ulink url="https://github.com/Distrotech/libnut">libnut</ulink> (Git checkout),
      <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencore-amr">OpenCore AMR</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://opencv.org/">OpenCV</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/">librtmp</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://diracvideo.org/">Schroedinger</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://www.twolame.org/">TwoLAME</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-utils/">Video4Linux</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencore-amr/files/vo-aacenc/">vo-aaenc</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencore-amr/files/vo-amrwbenc/">vo-amrwbenc</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://xavs.sourceforge.net/">libxavs</ulink> (SVN checkout),
      <ulink url="http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal-releases/">OpenAL</ulink>, and
      <ulink url="http://www.nongnu.org/texi2html">texi2html</ulink> (to build HTML documentation)
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
      User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/ffmpeg"/>
    </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of FFmpeg</title>

<!--<para>
      If <application>Xorg</application> is installed in a prefix other
      than <filename class='directory'>/usr</filename>, the build will fail. Fix
      this by issuing the following command:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>export LIBRARY_PATH=$XORG_PREFIX/lib</userinput></screen>
-->
    <para>
      In case you are building with freetype support (see "Command
      Explanations", below), apply this patch:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../ffmpeg-&ffmpeg-version;freetype-1.patch</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      Install <application>FFmpeg</application> by running the following
      commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>sed -i 's/-lflite"/-lflite -lasound"/' configure &amp;&amp;
./configure --prefix=/usr        \
            --enable-gpl         \
            --enable-version3    \
            --enable-nonfree     \
            --disable-static     \
            --enable-shared      \
            --disable-debug      \
            --enable-libass      \
            --enable-libfdk-aac  \
            --enable-libmp3lame  \
            --enable-libopus     \
            --enable-libtheora   \
            --enable-libvorbis   \
            --enable-libvpx      \
            --enable-libx264     \
            --enable-x11grab     &amp;&amp;
make &amp;&amp;
gcc tools/qt-faststart.c -o tools/qt-faststart &amp;&amp;
unset LIBRARY_PATH</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      HTML documentation was built in the previous step if
      <ulink url="http://www.nongnu.org/texi2html">texi2html</ulink> is
      installed. If the HTML was built (check for any
      <filename class="extension">.html</filename> files in the
      <filename class="directory">doc</filename> directory) and you have
      <xref linkend="texlive"/> installed and wish to build PDF and
      Postscript versions of the documentation, issue the following commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>pushd doc &amp;&amp;
for DOCNAME in `basename -s .html *.html`
do
    texi2pdf -b $DOCNAME.texi &amp;&amp;
    texi2dvi -b $DOCNAME.texi &amp;&amp;
    dvips -o    $DOCNAME.ps   \
                $DOCNAME.dvi
done                          &amp;&amp;
popd                          &amp;&amp;
unset DOCNAME</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      If you have <xref linkend="doxygen"/> installed and wish to create the API
      documentation (takes about 350 MB of space), issue the command
      <command>doxygen doc/Doxyfile</command>.
    </para>

    <para>
      To properly test the installation you must have <xref linkend="rsync"/>
      installed and follow the instructions for the
      <ulink url="http://ffmpeg.org/FATE.html">
      FFmpeg Automated Testing Environment</ulink> (FATE). First, about 736 MB
      of data files used to run FATE are downloaded. Next, FATE is executed.
      Estimated values in "Package Information" do not include the download SBU.
    </para>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install &amp;&amp;
install -v -m755    tools/qt-faststart /usr/bin &amp;&amp;
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg &amp;&amp;
install -v -m644    doc/*.txt \
                    /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      If HTML documentation was built, issue the following command to install it:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -m644 doc/*.html \
                 /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      If you used <command>doxygen</command> to create the API documentation,
      install it (another 300 MB of space) by issuing the following commands
      as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg/api &amp;&amp;
install -v -m644    doc/doxy/html/* \
                    /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg/api</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para>
      <command>sed -i ...</command>: This command adds the
      <application>ALSA</application> library to the
      <application>Flite</application> <envar>LDFLAGS</envar> variable and
      enables the discovery of <application>Flite</application>.
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>--enable-libfreetype</option>: Enables 
      <application>Freetype</application> support.
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>--enable-gpl</parameter>: Enables the use of GPL code and
      permits support for postprocessing, swscale and many other features.
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>--enable-version3</parameter>: Enables the use of (L)GPL
      version 3 code.
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>--enable-nonfree</parameter>: Enables the use of nonfree
      code. Note that the resulting libraries and binaries will be
      unredistributable.
    </para>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
      href="../../xincludes/static-libraries.xml"/>

    <para>
      <parameter>--enable-shared</parameter>: Enables building shared libraries,
      otherwise only static libraries are built and installed.
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>--disable-debug</parameter>: Disables building debugging
      symbols into the programs and libraries.
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>--enable-libass</parameter>: Enables ASS/SSA subtitle format
      rendering via <filename class="libraryfile">libass</filename>.
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>--enable-libfdk-aac</parameter>: Enables currently the
      highest-quality AAC audio encoding via <filename
      class="libraryfile">libfdk-aac</filename>.
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>--enable-libmp3lame</parameter>: Enables MP3 audio encoding via
      <filename class="libraryfile">libmp3lame</filename>.
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>--enable-libopus</parameter>: Enables Opus encoding for low
      latency streaming via <filename class="libraryfile">libopus</filename>.
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>--enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora</parameter>: Enables
      Theora video encoding via <filename
      class="libraryfile">libvorbis</filename> and <filename
      class="libraryfile">libtheora</filename>.
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>--enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx</parameter>: Enables WebM
      encoding via <filename class="libraryfile">libvorbis</filename> and
      <filename class="libraryfile">libvpx</filename>.
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>--enable-libx264</parameter>: Enables high-quality H.264/MPEG-4
      AVC encoding via <filename class="libraryfile">libx264</filename>.
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>--enable-x11grab</parameter>: Enables X11 grabbing.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>gcc tools/qt-faststart.c -o tools/qt-faststart</command>:
      This builds the <command>qt-faststart</command> program which can
      modify QuickTime formatted movies
      (<filename class="extension">.mov</filename> or
      <filename class="extension">.mp4</filename>) so that the header information
      is located at the beginning of the file instead of the end. This allows
      the movie file to begin playing before the entire file has been downloaded.
    </para>

    <note>
      <para>
        Support for most of the dependency packages requires using options
        passed to the <command>configure</command> script. View the output
        from <command>./configure --help</command> for complete information
        about enabling dependency packages.
      </para>
    </note>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="configuration">
    <title>Configuring FFmpeg</title>

    <sect3 id="ffmpeg-config">
      <title>Config Files</title>

      <para>
        <filename>/etc/ffserver.conf</filename> and
        <filename>~/.ffmpeg/ffserver-config</filename>
      </para>

      <indexterm zone="ffmpeg ffmpeg-config">
        <primary
        sortas="e-AA.ffmpeg-ffserver-config">~/.ffmpeg/ffserver-config</primary>
      </indexterm>

      <indexterm zone="ffmpeg ffmpeg-config">
        <primary sortas="e-etc-ffserver.conf">/etc/ffserver.conf</primary>
      </indexterm>

      <para>
        You'll find a sample <command>ffserver</command> configuration file at
        <filename>doc/ffserver.conf</filename> in the source tree.
      </para>

    </sect3>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          ffmpeg, ffplay, ffprobe, ffserver, and
          qt-faststart
        </seg>
        <seg>
          libavcodec.so, libavdevice.so, libavfilter.so,
          libavformat.so, libavutil.so, libpostproc.so,
          libswresample, and libswscale.so
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /usr/include/libavcodec,
          /usr/include/libavdevice,
          /usr/include/libavfilter,
          /usr/include/libavformat,
          /usr/include/libavutil,
          /usr/include/libpostproc,
          /usr/include/libswresample
          /usr/include/libswscale,
          /usr/share/ffmpeg, and
          /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="ffmpeg-prog">
        <term><command>ffmpeg</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a command-line tool to convert video files, network streams and
            input from a TV card to several video formats.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="ffmpeg ffmpeg-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-ffmpeg">ffmpeg</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="ffplay">
        <term><command>ffplay</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a very simple and portable media player using the
            <filename>ffmpeg</filename> libraries and the SDL library.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="ffmpeg ffplay">
            <primary sortas="b-ffplay">ffplay</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="ffprobe">
        <term><command>ffprobe</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            gathers information from multimedia streams and prints it in a human
            and machine-readable fashion.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="ffmpeg ffprobe">
            <primary sortas="b-ffprobe">ffprobe</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="ffserver">
        <term><command>ffserver</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a streaming server for everything that <command>ffmpeg</command>
            could use as input (files, streams, TV card input, webcam, etc).
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="ffmpeg ffserver">
            <primary sortas="b-ffserver">ffserver</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="qt-faststart">
        <term><command>qt-faststart</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            moves the index file to the front of quicktime (mov/mp4) videos.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="ffmpeg qt-faststart">
            <primary sortas="b-qt-faststart">qt-faststart</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libavcodec">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libavcodec.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a library containing the <application>FFmpeg</application> codecs
            (both encoding and decoding).
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="ffmpeg libavcodec">
            <primary sortas="c-libavcodec">libavcodec.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libavdevice">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libavdevice.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is the <application>FFmpeg</application> device handling library.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="ffmpeg libavdevice">
            <primary sortas="c-libavdevice">libavdevice.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libavfilter">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libavfilter.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a library of filters that can alter video or audio between the
            decoder and the encoder (or output).
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="ffmpeg libavfilter">
            <primary sortas="c-libavfilter">libavfilter.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libavformat">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libavformat.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a library containing the file formats handling (mux and demux
            code for several formats) used by <command>ffplay</command> as well
            as allowing the generation of  audio or video streams.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="ffmpeg libavformat">
            <primary sortas="c-libavformat">libavformat.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libavutil">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libavutil.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is the <application>FFmpeg</application> utility library.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="ffmpeg libavutil">
            <primary sortas="c-libavutil">libavutil.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libpostproc">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpostproc.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is the <application>FFmpeg</application> post processing library.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="ffmpeg libpostproc">
            <primary sortas="c-libpostproc">libpostproc.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libswresample">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libswresample.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is the <application>FFmpeg</application> audio rescaling library,
            it contains functions for converting audio sample formats.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="ffmpeg libswresample">
            <primary sortas="c-libswresample">libswresample.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libswscale">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libswscale.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is the <application>FFmpeg</application> image rescaling library.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="ffmpeg libswscale">
            <primary sortas="c-libswscale">libswscale.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>