This guide should work as is for Amazon AMI 2012. You need sudo privileges to run the installation. The core of this tool consists of the command line FFmpeg which processes the audio and video files. Some libraries are hidden in EPEL repository, it should be already added but not enabled, so edit /etc//epel.repo and make sure you have enabled=1 there (don't need source and debuginfo sections, we won't be building anything today). And do the same for /etc//rpmforge.repo - should enable extras section.īe warned that there might be some small conflicts between CentOS and Amazon repositories. Installing FFMPEG in Ubuntu is really straight forward, as its supported by the apt package manager. FFmpeg is a free and open-source project that consists of programs and libraries capable of transcoding audio, video, and other multimedia files/streams.
Basically, it is a rebranded CentOS using Amazon's repository, which does not have many packages, including ffmpeg and it's dependencies. Your version may vary:ĭetermine which CentOS this is based off (version is in Red Hat X.X.X-x): An easy way to install ffmpeg on Amazon AMI (special distro for Amazon AWS EC2 service) without using any source packages.