source: multimedia/videoutils/ffmpeg.xml@ d84a7b0

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  <!ENTITY ffmpeg-download-http "&files-anduin;/sources/ffmpeg-&ffmpeg-version;.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY ffmpeg-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY ffmpeg-md5sum        "abae526f04693c08684f0a18c28e3313">
  <!ENTITY ffmpeg-size          "2.2 MB">
  <!ENTITY ffmpeg-buildsize     "131 MB (built with all dependencies)">
  <!ENTITY ffmpeg-time          "1.8 SBU">
]>

<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. The developers of this package do not create or distribute package
    tarballs any longer. BLFS created the tarball for this package by checking
    out from upstream SVN the <application>FFmpeg</application> code dated
    June 6, 2007.</para>

    <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: <ulink
        url="&patch-root;/ffmpeg-&ffmpeg-version;-gcc4-1.patch"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Required patch: <ulink
        url="&patch-root;/ffmpeg-&ffmpeg-version;-amr_fixes-1.patch"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist> -->

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

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
    <ulink url="http://www.penguin.cz/~utx/amr">AMR narrowband (floating point)</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://www.penguin.cz/~utx/amr">AMR wideband</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/faac">FAAC</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/faac">FAAD2</ulink>,
    <xref linkend="freetype2"/>,
    <ulink url="http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/gsm/">GSM</ulink>,
    <xref linkend="imlib2"/>,
    <xref linkend="lame"/>,
    <xref linkend="liba52"/>,
    <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libdc1394">libdc1394</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/nut/src/trunk/">libnut</ulink> (SVN checkout),
    <xref linkend="libvorbis"/>,
    <ulink url="http://medialibrary.sourceforge.net/">MediaLibrary</ulink>,
    <xref linkend="sdl"/>,
    <ulink url="http://www.theora.org/">Theora</ulink>,
    <xref linkend="x-window-system"/>,
    <ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html">x264</ulink>,
    <xref linkend="xvid"/>, and
    <xref linkend="tetex"/> (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>Review the <filename>doc/optimization.txt</filename> file in the
      source tree for information about optimizing the build. Additionally,
      you may want to build the postprocessing library as other packages such
      as <application>MPlayer</application> and
      <application>Transcode</application> can utilize it (see the
      <quote>Command Explanations</quote> section for additional
      information).</para>

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

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --enable-shared \
            --enable-pthreads \
            --disable-ffplay &amp;&amp;
sed -i 's|/man|/share/man|' config.mak &amp;&amp;
make &amp;&amp;
texi2html --version >/dev/null 2>&amp;1 || make doc/ff{mpeg,play,server}.1</userinput></screen>

    <para>If you have <application>teTeX</application> installed, the HTML
    documentation was built during the <command>make</command> process. If you
    wish to create additional formats of the documentation, you must have
    <application>teTeX</application> installed, then issue following
    commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>cd doc &amp;&amp;
for DOCNAME in faq ffmpeg-doc hooks ffserver-doc ffplay-doc; do
    texi2dvi -b -p $DOCNAME.texi
    texi2dvi -b    $DOCNAME.texi
    dvips -o $DOCNAME.ps $DOCNAME.dvi
    if [ $DOCNAME = ffserver-doc ] || [ $DOCNAME = ffplay-doc ]; then \
        continue
    fi
    makeinfo --plaintext --force -o $DOCNAME.txt $DOCNAME.texi
done &amp;&amp;
cd .. &amp;&amp;
unset DOCNAME</userinput></screen>

    <para>If you have <xref linkend="doxygen"/> installed and wish to create
    the API documentation (takes about 100 MB of space), issue
    <command>doxygen</command>.</para>

    <para>This package does not come with a test suite that works.</para>

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

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install &amp;&amp;
install -v -m755 -d        /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg-&ffmpeg-version; &amp;&amp;
install -v -m644 doc/*.txt /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg-&ffmpeg-version; &amp;&amp;
texi2html --version >/dev/null 2>&amp;1 || make install-man</userinput></screen>

    <para>If you created additional formats of the documentation,
    install it by issuing the following commands as the
    <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -m644 doc/*.{html,dvi,pdf,ps} \
    /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg-&ffmpeg-version;</userinput></screen>

    <para>If you created the API documentation, install it 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-&ffmpeg-version;/api &amp;&amp;
cp -v doxy/*        /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg-&ffmpeg-version;/api</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

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

    <para><parameter>--enable-shared</parameter>: This switch is needed to
    build the shared libraries, otherwise only static libraries are built
    and installed.</para>

    <para><parameter>--enable-pthreads</parameter>: This switch enables the
    build to link against the Posix threads library.</para>

    <para><parameter>--disable-ffplay</parameter>: Only installs the server part.
    <command>ffplay</command> requires <application>X</application> for
    building. Remove this option if <application>X</application> is
    installed.</para>

    <para><option>--enable-<replaceable>&lt;codec&gt;</replaceable></option>: Review
    the available options and codecs using the
    <command>./configure --help</command> command. You must explicitly enable
    each optional codec. Note that if you wish to build support for
    postprocessing, liba52, xvid, x264, libfaad2, x11grab or swscaler, you
    must pass <option>--enable-gpl</option> to the
    <command>configure</command> script.</para>

    <para><command>texi2html --version ...</command>: These commands are used
    to check the presence of the <application>teTeX</application> package, and
    builds/installs the man pages if it is not found.</para>

  </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 ffserver configuration file at
      <ulink url="http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/sample.html"/> (also
      <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, ffserver, and optionally, ffplay</seg>
        <seg>libavcodec.{so,a}, libavformat.{so,a}, libavutil.{so,a},
        video hook modules and optionally, libpostproc.{so,a}</seg>
        <seg>/usr/include/ffmpeg, /usr/include/postproc, /usr/lib/vhook, and
        /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg-&ffmpeg-version;</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="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="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="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>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>