From ffmpeg.org :
FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. It includes libavcodec – the leading audio/video codec library.
Installation Guide :
download the following debian package and install it :
wget http://www.debian-multimedia.org/pool/main/d/debian-multimedia-keyring/debian-multimedia-keyring_2008.10.16_all.deb dpkg -i debian-multimedia-keyring_2008.10.16_all.deb
Add the following lines to your /etc/apt/source.list :
nano /etc/apt/nano sources.list
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main
update your apt cache :
apt-get update
install needed utils :
apt-get install checkinstall yasm git-core subversion
install ffmpeg dependencies :
apt-get build-dep ffmpeg
Install x264 :
git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264.git cd x264 ./configure make checkinstall --pkgname=x264 --pkgversion "1:0.svn`date +%Y%m%d`" --backup=no --default
Install libtheora :
wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.1.1.tar.gz tar xzvf libtheora-1.1.1.tar.gz cd libtheora-1.1.1 ./configure make checkinstall --pkgname=libtheora --pkgversion "1.1.1" --backup=no --default
remove old libx264-dev :
apt-get remove libx264-dev
download the latest release of ffmpeg using subversion :
svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg
configure and make ffmpeg :
cd ffmpeg/ ./configure --enable-version3 --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libtheora --enable-libx264 --enable-libgsm --enable-postproc --enable-libxvid --enable-libfaac --enable-pthreads --enable-libvorbis --enable-gpl --enable-x11grab --enable-nonfree make checkinstall --pkgname=ffmpeg --pkgversion "4:0.5+svn`date +%Y%m%d`" --backup=no --default
and we are all set 🙂
just one more note , if you are going to convert flv files to 3gp files like me 😀 use the following command :
ffmpeg -i input.flv -s 176x144 -vcodec h263 -acodec aac output.3gp