FFMPEG with libxvid libx264 and libfaac without root access

banon · Member Joined: 02 Oct 2008 Location: Zimbabwe

Hi.
I need some help in getting ffmpeg compiled with --enable-libxvid --enable-libfaac --enable-x264.
i ain't got root access on server, where i need to compile it, so i'm not able to install codecs in normal dir /usr/lib... or something.
it's kinda obvious that when trying to compile ffmpeg it can't find codecs in usual places.
how can i 'tell' ffmpeg to search for the libs in some place else?

disturbed1 · Member Joined: 22 Apr 2001 Location: init 4

You want to compile and install your libs to a local directory, then export that direcoty with pkgconfig before running ./configure for ffmpeg.

Example - for let's say lame.

./configure --prefix=/home/name/$FFMPEG-LIB-DIR
make
make install

or

./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install DESTDIR=$FFMPEG-LIB-DIR

It will be trial and error for the above. I know for a fact x264 can get by with ./configure --prefix=/usr, then passing a destination variable to make install.

Then for ffmpeg -
PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$FFMPEG-LIB-DIR/usr/lib/pkgconfig" \
./configure --prefix=/$HOME \
--$YOUR-OTHER-OPTIONS

$FFMPEG-LIB-DIR is an actual directory you create. Any thing else with $ is just an arbitrary value specific to you.

You might want to jump on ffmpeg's IRC and ask the question there if you run into trouble with the above.
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