Get latest ffmpeg (svn) in FreeBSD-7.0

If you want to compile the latest ffmpeg from subversion with some external libraries support like x264, faac, Theora and Vorbis in the latest FreeBSD release (7.0) then follow this simple steps:

If you do not have the ports tree installed (i.e. /usr/ports is empty or non existent) then you can use portsnap to download and update it (these commands must be done as root):

1 pkg_add -r portsnap

2 mkdir /usr/ports

3 portsnap fetch

4 portsnap extract

5 portsnap update

Install some ports to enable more funcionality in ffmpeg (these commands also must be done as root):

 1 # faac support

 2 cd /usr/ports/audio/faac

 3 make install clean

 4

 5 # vorbis support

 6 cd /usr/ports/audio/vorbis-tools

 7 make install clean

 8

 9 # x264 support

10 cd /usr/ports/multimedia/x264

11 make install clean

12

13 # theora support

14 cd /usr/ports/multimedia/libtheora

15 make install clean

16

17 # ffplay support

18 cd /usr/ports/deve/sdl12

19 make install clean

Checkout ffmpeg from subversion, configure, compile and install (only the last command needs root priviledges);

 1 # checkout ffmpeg from subversion

 2 svn co svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg

 3 cd ffmpeg

 4

 5 # export library and include paths

 6 # so configure can find the external

 7 # libraries (i.e. x264)

 8 export LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib

 9 export CPATH=/usr/local/include

10

11 # run configure with desired options

12 ./configure --enable-gpl --enable-pthreads \

13  --enable-shared --enable-swscale  \

14  --enable-libx264 --enable-libfaac \

15  --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis \

16  --enable-encoder=g726 --enable-encoder=ljpeg \

17  --enable-encoder=mjpeg

18

19 # compile using GNU Make (gmake), not BSD Make

20 gmake

21

22 # install

23 su root -c 'gmake install'

If you want to enable other external codec libraries supported by ffmpeg make sure to install their respective ports (if available) and then run the configure script with the desired libraries enabled. You can see a list of supported codec libraries with ".configure --help".

Note that this instructions were tested with revision 12684 of ffmpeg subverion but ffmpeg is a very active project and this instructions are not guarantee to work with the latest subversion revision.