How to install ffmpeg on Debian?

Question

i would like to know how to install ffmpeg on Debian? Need me help for this.Tnx

Answer 1

Have you tried installing using apt-get? If the package is simply called "ffmpeg" you can install it with:

apt-get update
apt-get install ffmpeg

If that doesn't work, you can try searching for it:

apt-cache search ffmpeg

Also, don't forget to use sudo if you aren't root!

Answer 2

FFMPEG uses git so you will need to use the terminal. See here for the current location

There's a pretty comprehensive walkthrough on doing it here. Have extracted pertinent code for the lazy (myself included).

One thing to note, you may get some errors when configuring that you are missing packages. I needed to use RPM to get a couple of them when running Fedora 14 but your mileage may vary on Debian.

Checkout FFMPEG

git clone git://git.videolan.org/ffmpeg.git

cd ffmpeg

Configure [add your own preferences if you want]

./configure

Build and install

make

sudo make install