In this tutorial, we will introduce how to install ffmpeg in linux offline, it is very easy to do by our steps.
Step 1: download ffmpeg source code
We can download it in here.
https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/release-source/ffmpeg-4.1.tar.xz
Step 2: extract ffmpeg
xz -d ffmpeg-4.1.tar.xz tar -xf ffmpeg-4.1.tar
Step 3: compile ffmpeg
cd ffmpeg-4.1/ ./configure --enable-shared --prefix=/usr/local/ffmpeg
When we are running ./configure –enable-shared –prefix=/usr/local/ffmpeg, we may get this error: nasm/yasm not found or too old. Use –disable-x86asm for a crippled build.
You can read this tutorial to fix.
Fix nasm/yasm not found or too old. Use –disable-x86asm for a crippled build Error – Linux Tutorial
Step 3: install ffmpeg in linux
make make install
Step 4: export ffmpeg
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/ffmpeg/lib
Then we can run ffmpeg in current directory.
./ffmpeg
We will see:
