Here is the procedure that installs the FFMPEG on a Linux server.
Connect to the site with your main ID and password.
When you are at the command promt then enter
su -
Enter the root password for the server.
After that just copy each command from here line by line and right click in the session window.
cd /usr/local/src
wget http://www3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20061022.tar.bz2
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/9225/flvtool2_1.0.5_rc6.tgz
wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/lame/lame-3.97.tar.gz
wget http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ffmpeg-php/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0.tbz2
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
tar zxvf flvtool2_1.0.5_rc6.tgz
tar zxvf lame-3.97.tar.gz
tar zxvf libogg-1.1.3.tar.gz
tar zxvf libvorbis-1.1.2.tar.gz
tar zxvf flvtool2_1.0.5_rc6.tgz
tar jxvf essential-20061022.tar.bz2
tar jxvf ffmpeg-php-0.5.0.tbz2
mkdir /usr/local/lib/codecs/
up2date -i gcc gmake make libcpp libgcc libstdc++ gcc4 gcc4-c++ gcc4-gfortran
yum install gcc gmake make libcpp libgcc libstdc++ gcc4 gcc4-c++ gcc4-gfortran
up2date -i subversion
up2date -i ruby
up2date -i ncurses-devel
iptables -t filter -I OUTPUT -p tcp –dport 3690 -j ACCEPT
svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg
svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer
cd /usr/local/src/mplayer
svn update
cd /usr/local/src
mv /usr/local/src/essential-20061022/* /usr/local/lib/codecs/
chmod -R 755 /usr/local/lib/codecs/
mkdir /usr/local/src/tmp
chmod 777 /usr/local/src/tmp
export TMPDIR=/usr/local/src/tmp
cd /usr/local/src/lame-3.97
./configure
make && make install
cd /usr/local/src/
cd /usr/local/src/libogg-1.1.3
./configure && make && make install
cd /usr/local/src/
cd /usr/local/src/libvorbis-1.1.2
./configure && make && make install
cd /usr/local/src/
cd /usr/local/src/flvtool2_1.0.5_rc6/
ruby setup.rb config
ruby setup.rb setup
ruby setup.rb install
cd /usr/local/src/
cd /usr/local/src/mplayer
./configure && make && make install
cd /usr/local/src/
cd /usr/local/src/ffmpeg/
./configure –enable-libmp3lame –enable-libogg –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
cd /usr/local/src/
cd /usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0/
phpize
./configure
make
make install
echo ‘extension=/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429/ffmpeg.so’ >> /usr/local/etc/php.ini
service httpd restart
cd /usr/local/src
I think this much will be enough. If you still cannot figure out then contact your hosting provider and I think they will do it on a chargeable basis. Don’t know if every hosting provider will allow it. But yes most of them will do it.
To verify that the above things do work
You can test it like this
php -r ‘phpinfo();’ | grep ffmpeg
If it returns this message
ffmpeg
ffmpeg support (ffmpeg-php) => enabled
ffmpeg-php version => 0.5.0
ffmpeg.allow_persistent => 0 => 0
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