how to upgrade ffmpeg to latest version in centos 5.11?

Question

I have CentoS 5.11 installed. and ffmpeg 0.10.2 [

[root@cs1590 ~]# ffmpeg
   ffmpeg version 0.10.2.git Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Jun  5 2012 08:51:26 with gcc 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-51)
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-libx264
  libavutil      51. 56.100 / 51. 56.100
  libavcodec     54. 23.100 / 54. 23.100
  libavformat    54.  6.101 / 54.  6.101
  libavdevice    54.  0.100 / 54.  0.100
  libavfilter     2. 78.100 /  2. 78.100
  libswscale      2.  1.100 /  2.  1.100
  libswresample   0. 15.100 /  0. 15.100
  libpostproc    52.  0.100 / 52.  0.100
Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder
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I want to update ffmpeg to the latest version. Please tell me the detailed steps to do it.

Answer 1

The best way to use current ffmpeg on Linux is to download a static build from this download site.

I typically

• either uninstall distro-provided ffmpeg and put it where the distro's version would be
• or put it somewhere in the path where it is found earlier than the distro version
• or just call it with the full path

Answer 2

As suggested in @eugen-rieck's answer I too would use the static build as provided by johnvansickle's website.

I typically install it here:

$HOME/bin/ffmpeg-git-32bit-static

and then override in my .bashrc file my $PATH like so:

export PATH=$HOME/bin/ffmpeg-git-32bit-static:$PATH

I will warn you however that these static builds seem to require additional capabilities from the Linux kernel that are not present.

For example, when trying to use youtube-dl with it:

[pbs] 2365100759: Downloading m3u8 information
FATAL: kernel too old
FATAL: kernel too old
[download] Destination: Nature - Saving Otter 501-2365100759.mp4
FATAL: kernel too old
FATAL: kernel too old
FATAL: kernel too old


ERROR: ffmpeg exited with code -11