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Does anyone have any guidelines for building ffmpeg on Centos

I cannot find a Centos RPM for ffmpeg 1.0.1 (and libs) so it looks like I have to build my own, but it has not gone well so far.

Has anyone else tried (and I have tried one of the static ffmpeg builds but it fails due to an incompatible kernel)

I found the src rpm for Mandriva but this fails with missing rpm macros.

I really want to build ffmpeg static with as many libraries as possible.

Si

Its for 6.0, but should apply. Scroll down to the bottom there is a guide for building ffmpeg.

http://wiki.serviio.org/doku.php?id=how ... all:centos

I had tried that link, but had not made it work.

With a bunch of mucking about, I did succeed (albeit without Theora support, but that should not be an issue). I had to move some libraries and header files so that configure could find them, but I really don't know why.

I will test it tonight (all I really need is mkv-mt2s for my BDP-S370) and hopefully all will be well - I had a strange episode where a selfcompiled ffmpeg 1.0.1 started failing on all my mkv files, so I backed it out and reinstalled an older version, but then only some worked (some mkv format weirdness, I think).

Now it looks like 1.0.1 is good (tested on a bunch of mkv files) but I have to test it from my S370 when I get home.

It'd be great if you could update the wiki page with your findings

Just to report that everything is now working fine with ffmpeg 1.0.1 and Serviio.

I'll build a raw Centos server and start again from source (as far as possible), as some of my issues were library/repository based (SME servers have a restricted subset of repositories, and I needed to find the right ones for the various libs).

I'll feed that back when I have done that.

Si

thanks