CentOS Linux operating system installation FFmpeg tutorial

FFmpeg is a very popular open source project, used to encode and decode audio and video streams, and is widely used in various streaming services. This tutorial can be used on CentOS 6, 7, and 8 to install the FFmpeg software.

1. Pre-installation requirements

• A Linux VPS with CentOS system installed
• A sudo account is usually the default root account.
• Update system

2. CentOS installation FFmpeg tutorial

1. CentOS 8

Install required dependencies:

$ sudo yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
$ sudo yum install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/rpmfusion-free-release-8.noarch.rpm https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/el/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-8 .noarch.rpm
$ sudo yum install http://rpmfind.net/linux/epel/7/x86_64/Packages/s/SDL2-2.0.10-1.el7.x86_64.rpm

Install FFmpeg:

# sudo yum install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel

2. CentOS 7

Install Nux Desktop:

$ sudo rpm --import http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/RPM-GPG-KEY-nux.ro
$ sudo rpm -Uvh http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el7/x86_64/nux-dextop-release-0-5.el7.nux.noarch.rpm

Install FFmpeg:

$ sudo yum install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel -y

3. CentOS 6

Install Nux Desktop:

$ sudo rpm --import http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/RPM-GPG-KEY-nux.ro
$ sudo rpm -Uvh http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el6/x86_64/nux-dextop-release-0-2.el6.nux.noarch.rpm

Install FFmpeg:

$ sudo yum install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel -y

3. Test whether the installation is successful

1. View version

$ ffmpeg -version

2. Test sample (MP3 -> OGG)

$ cd
$ wget https://archive.org/download/MLKDream/MLKDream_64kb.mp3
$ ffmpeg -i MLKDream_64kb.mp3 -c:a libvorbis -q:a 4 MLKDream_64kb.ogg

3. Test sample (MP4 -> OGG)

$ cd
$ wget https://archive.org/30/items/I_Have_A_Dream_Speech_excerpt/I_Have_A_Dream_Speech_excerpt.mpeg4 -O MLKDream.mpeg4
$ ffmpeg -i MLKDream.mpeg4 -codec:v libtheora -qscale:v 3 -codec:a libvorbis -qscale:a 3 -f ogv MLKDream.ogv

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