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0 (Jessie)

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Installing Ffmpeg on Debian

GNU/Linux Version 8.0 (Jessie)

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For Asset Bank to be able to create thumbnails and previews for video and audio files Asset
Bank uses Ffmpeg (http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu).

The following instuctions explain how to install Ffmpeg from source (and so they require a
compiler such as gcc). Please note:

Ffmpeg will be installed into /usr/local/bin

These instructions are specifically for version 8.0 (Jessie) of Debian GNU/Linux. Use
these instructions instead if you are using another GNU/Linux distribution.

1. Configure APT to use the deb-multimedia

repository
Note: the commands in this section must be run as root

1.1) Add the following to the bottom of /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org jessie main non-free

deb-src http://www.deb-multimedia.org jessie main non-free

1.2) Refresh apt's package database, by typing:

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apt-get update

1.3) Allow apt to trust deb-multimedia's key, by typing:

apt-get install deb-multimedia-keyring

1.4) Refresh apt's package database again, by typing:

apt-get update

2. Remove ffmpeg Debian packge

Note: the commands in this section must be run as root

2.1) Remove the ffmpeg package, if it is installed, to avoid confusion caused by having two
versions of ffmpeg installed and potential conflicts with the packages that will be installed in
the next step:

apt-get remove ffmpeg

3. Install Libraries
Note: the commands in this section must be run as root

3.1) Install library packages and build tools:

apt-get install build-essential libmp3lame-dev libvorbis-dev lib

theora-dev libspeex-dev yasm pkg-config libfaac-dev libopenjpeg-
dev libx264-dev

4. Install Ffmpeg
Note: we recommend that the commands in this section are run as a non-root user (although
they should still work if run as root)

4.1) Download and extract the ffmpeg source code:

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mkdir software

cd software

wget http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-2.7.2.tar.bz2

cd ..

mkdir src

cd src

tar xvjf ../software/ffmpeg-2.7.2.tar.bz2

4.2) Move into the source directory:

cd ffmpeg-2.7.2

4.3) Configure, build and install:

./configure --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-swscale --en

able-avfilter --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis --enable-li
btheora --enable-libx264 --enable-libspeex --enable-shared --ena
ble-pthreads --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libfaac --enable-nonf
ree

make

sudo make install

4.4) Run "/sbin/ldconfig" as root.

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