Tim Child

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   This is a work in progress for installing ffmpeg on OSX by a custom compile

   This is another thing that I have needed to do and decided to put what I am doing in a blog post, I might need it in the future or it might be helpful for others.

   So firstly download LAME – this is needed for supporting MP3 audio files, such as those in FLV and also for vorbis support. LAME src can be located on sourceforge.

   Unarchive the file (lame-3.98b6 at the time of writing )

   cd lame-3.98b6
   ./configure --with-vorbis
   make
   sudo make install

   The first time I did this I noticed a problem running make so I “make clean” and then went through the process again.

   Next up we want support for AAC audio, and you can get packages called FAAD2 and FAAC from www.audiocoding.com/downloads.html for these and then unarchive them ( FAAD 2.6.1 and FAAC 1.26 at the time of writing).

   cd faad2
   autoreconf -vif
   ./configure --without-bmp --without-xmms --without-drm --without-mpeg4ip
   make
   sudo make install

   Then faac

   cd faac
   ./bootstrap
   ./configure --with-libmp4v2
   make
   sudo make install

   x264 ( http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html )

   cd x264
   ./configure --enable-pthread --enable-pic
   make
   make install

   liba52

   wget http://liba52.sourceforge.net/files/a52dec-snapshot.tar.gz
   tar -xzvf a52dec-snapshot.tar.gz
   cd a52dec-0.7.5-cvs/
   ./configure
   ./configure --enable-libmp3lame --enable-x264 --enable-liba52 --enable-gpl

   And for amr_wb and amr_nb go into their directories and do the following:

   ./configure
   make clean
   make -j2 > /dev/null
   sudo make install

   Basically the -j2 switch is for enabling dual cores when compiling.

   Now we get around to compiling ffmpeg itself:

   ./configure --enable-shared --disable-mmx --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libamr-wb --enable-libamr-nb --enable-nonfree --disable-vhook
   make clean
   make -j2 > /dev/null
   sudo make install

   And that should be it though I am currently trying this configuration and it seems to work well:

   ./configure --enable-shared --disable-mmx --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libamr-wb --enable-libamr-nb --enable-nonfree --enable-libx264 --enable-libfaad --enable-gpl --disable-vhook

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1. Thanks. Very useful.

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