FFMPEG on Linux Dedicated Servers

[Joseph]

I have heard that it is better to consider a Linux dedicated server hosting for FFMPEG instead of any other hosting package or server. Is there any specific reason for the same ? Also, is it easy to install FFMPEG on a Linux dedicated server ?

[Thomas]

It is always advised to use a Dedicated Server for Live Streaming Videos as it requires high resources for Live Streaming, so if you are on a Shared Server your account may get suspended if it overloads the server resources.

Also on a Dedicated Server, you get a dedicated environment, ie: your server resources are not shared with any other user and also you get much more disk space and bandwidth as compared to a shared hosting account which is definitely a benefit.

Now talking about FFMPEG installation, Yes it is easy to install FFMPEG on our Linux Dedicated Server however if you need assistance we will install it for you so you dont have to worry about FFMPEG installation.

[Kratos]

FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform its used for recording, converting and streaming both audio and video files its highly compatible with Linux OS and it is recommended that you go for a dedicated server because streaming requires higher resources that's the reason why it is said consider Linux dedicated server for FFMPEG and yes carl you are right it is easy to install ffmpeg on a Linux OS .

[jason s]

Hi, follow the below given steps and you will learn that installing install ffmpeg is a easy task.

cd /usr/local/src

Download files :

wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/lame/lame-3.97.tar.gz
wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ogg/libogg-1.1.3.tar.gz
wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/libvorbis-1.1.2.tar.gz
wget http://www4.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20061022.tar.bz2

Extract

tar zxvf lame-3.97.tar.gz
tar zxvf libogg-1.1.3.tar.gz
tar zxvf libvorbis-1.1.2.tar.gz
tar jxvf essential-20061022.tar.bz2

chown root.root * -R

yum install subversion ruby ncurses-devel
svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg

If you are using secure tmp:

mkdir /usr/local/src/tmp
chmod 777 /usr/local/src/tmp
export TMPDIR=/usr/local/src/tmp

Installing Lame

cd /usr/local/src/lame-3.97
./configure
make && make install

Installing Libogg

cd /usr/local/src/libogg-1.1.3
./configure && make && make install

Installing libvorbis

cd /usr/local/src/libvorbis-1.1.2
./configure && make && make install

Installing flvtool2

gem install flvtool2

Installing ffmpeg

cd /usr/local/src/ffmpeg/
./configure –enable-libmp3lame  –enable-libvorbis –disable-mmx –enable-shared
make && make install

ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavformat.so.50 /usr/lib/libavformat.so.50
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavcodec.so.51 /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.51
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavutil.so.49 /usr/lib/libavutil.so.49
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libmp3lame.so.0 /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavformat.so.51 /usr/lib/libavformat.so.51

Installing ffmpeg-php

svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ffmpeg-php/trunk/ffmpeg-php
cd ffmpeg-php
phpize
./configure
make
make install
cp /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/ffmpeg.so /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/

Install mplayer & mencoder

mv /usr/local/src/essential-20061022/* /usr/local/lib/codecs/
chmod -R 755 /usr/local/lib/codecs/

yum install mplayer mencoder

Restart Apache

service httpd restart

[jason s]

Originally Posted by Kratos

FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform its used for recording, converting and streaming both audio and video files its highly compatible with Linux OS and it is recommended that you go for a dedicated server because streaming requires higher resources that's the reason why it is said consider Linux dedicated server for FFMPEG and yes carl you are right it is easy to install ffmpeg on a Linux OS .

Where is Carl in this thread...i guess I need an eye checkup coz i can't see carl here. Hammering

[Kratos]

I am sorry jason by mistake i typed carl instead of joseph anyways thanks for correcting me