Ubuntu doesn’t provide the latest ffmpeg or include the modules I use all the time, so I wrote a little script to automatically compile and install my own version:
#!/bin/sh
# https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/Ubuntu
# SERVER COMPILATION SKIPS ffplay AND A X11 DEPENDENCIES
echo 'THIS SCRIPT USES SUDO, SO IT MIGHT ASK FOR YOUR PASSWORD'
sudo apt-get update -qq
sudo apt-get -y install \
autoconf \
automake \
build-essential \
cmake \
git \
libass-dev \
libfreetype6-dev \
libtheora-dev \
libtool \
libvorbis-dev \
mercurial \
pkg-config \
texinfo \
wget \
zlib1g-dev \
yasm \
libx264-dev \
libvpx-dev \
libfdk-aac-dev \
libmp3lame-dev \
libopus-dev
cd ~/src
# DO WE NEED NASM?
# wget http://www.nasm.us/pub/nasm/releasebuilds/2.13.02/nasm-2.13.02.tar.bz2
# tar xjvf nasm-2.13.02.tar.bz2
# pushd nasm-2.13.02
# ./autogen.sh
# PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" ./configure --prefix="/usr/local" --bindir="/usr/local/bin"
# make
# sudo make install
# DO WE NEED x265
if cd x265 2> /dev/null; then hg pull && hg update; else hg clone https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265; fi
cd x265/build/linux
PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="/usr/local/" -DENABLE_SHARED:bool=off ../../source
PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" make
sudo make install
# ACTUAL COMPILATION
cd ~/src
wget -O ffmpeg-snapshot.tar.bz2 https://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-snapshot.tar.bz2
tar xjvf ffmpeg-snapshot.tar.bz2
cd ffmpeg
PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig" ./configure \
--prefix="/usr/local" \
--pkg-config-flags="--static" \
--extra-cflags="-I/usr/local/include" \
--extra-ldflags="-L/usr/local/lib" \
--extra-libs="-lpthread -lm" \
--bindir="/usr/local/bin" \
--enable-gpl \
--enable-libass \
--enable-libfdk-aac \
--enable-libfreetype \
--enable-libmp3lame \
--enable-libopus \
--enable-libtheora \
--enable-libvorbis \
--enable-libvpx \
--enable-libx264 \
--enable-libx265 \
--enable-nonfree
make
sudo make install
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olivier galand
Thanks a lot,
it worked perfectly to set up ffmpeg with x265 on an ubuntu server 18.10 vm
Olivier