HOWTO: Install and use the latest FFmpeg and x264

The thread is make by 'FakeOutdoorsman'

It works on debian 64bit

#Install the Dependencies

sudo apt-get remove ffmpeg x264 libx264-dev yasm

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install build-essential git-core checkinstall texi2html libfaac-dev \

libopencore-amrnb-dev libopencore-amrwb-dev libsdl1.2-dev libtheora-dev \

libvorbis-dev libx11-dev libxfixes-dev zlib1g-dev

#Install Yasm

cd

wget http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/releases/yasm-1.2.0.tar.gz

tar xzvf yasm-1.2.0.tar.gz

cd yasm-1.2.0

./configure

make

checkinstall --pkgname=yasm --pkgversion="1.2.0" --backup=no --deldoc=yes --default

#Install x264

cd

git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264

cd x264

./configure --enable-static

make

checkinstall --pkgname=x264 --default --pkgversion="3:$(./version.sh | \

awk -F'[" ]' '/POINT/{print $4"+git"$5}')" --backup=no --deldoc=yes

#Install LAME

apt-get remove libmp3lame-dev

apt-get install nasm

cd

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/lame/lame/3.99/lame-3.99.tar.gz

tar xzvf lame-3.99.tar.gz

cd lame-3.99

./configure --enable-nasm --disable-shared

make

checkinstall --pkgname=lame-ffmpeg --pkgversion="3.99" --backup=no --default --deldoc=yes

#Install libvpx

cd

git clone http://git.chromium.org/webm/libvpx.git

cd libvpx

./configure

make

checkinstall --pkgname=libvpx --pkgversion="$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M)-git" --backup=no --default --deldoc=yes

#Install FFmpeg

cd

git clone --depth 1 git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg

cd ffmpeg

./configure --enable-gpl --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb \

--enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx \

--enable-libx264 --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc --enable-version3 --enable-x11grab

make

checkinstall --pkgname=ffmpeg --pkgversion="5:$(./version.sh)" --backup=no --deldoc=yes --default

hash x264 ffmpeg ffplay ffprobe

#Install qt-faststart (optional)

cd ~/ffmpeg

make tools/qt-faststart

sudo checkinstall --pkgname=qt-faststart --pkgversion="$(./version.sh)" --backup=no \

--deldoc=yes --default install -Dm755 tools/qt-faststart /usr/local/bin/qt-faststart

# Updating FFmpeg and x264

sudo apt-get remove ffmpeg x264 libx264-dev libvpx

cd ~/x264

make distclean

git pull

cd ~/libvpx

make clean

git pull

cd ~/ffmpeg

make distclean

git pull

./configure

#Finish, the videolan can play the h.264 movie

from: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9868359&postcount=1289