1. SSH into your instance and become root
sudo su -
2. Go to the the /usr/local/bin directory
cd /usr/local/bin
3. Inside the /usr/local/bin directory, create an “ffmpeg” directory
mkdir ffmpeg
4. Go into the new directory
cd ffmpeg
5. Go to static build directory at http://ffmpeg.gusari.org/static/64bit/ and pick the
latest version of FFMPEG – as of this writing, it was ffmpeg.static.64bit.2014-02-16.tar.gz
wget http://ffmpeg.gusari.org/static/64bit/ffmpeg.static.64bit.2014-02-16.tar.gz
6. The file should now be in /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg. Untar it…
tar -xzf ffmpeg.static.64bit.2014-02-16.tar.gz
5. Run it and check what the latest version is
./ffmpeg -version
The output should look something like this
ffmpeg version N-60675-g8fe1076
built on Feb 16 2014 05:45:47 with gcc 4.6 (Debian 4.6.3-1)
configuration: –prefix=/root/ffmpeg-static/64bit –extra-cflags=’-I/root/ffmpeg-
static/64bit/include -static’ –extra-ldflags=’-L/root/ffmpeg-static/64bit/lib -static’ —
extra-libs=’-lxml2 -lexpat -lfreetype’ –enable-static –disable-shared –disable-ffserver —
disable-doc –enable-bzlib –enable-zlib –enable-postproc –enable-runtime-cpudetect —
enable-libx264 –enable-gpl –enable-libtheora –enable-libvorbis –enable-libmp3lame —
enable-gray –enable-libass –enable-libfreetype –enable-libopenjpeg –enable-libspeex —
enable-libvo-aacenc –enable-libvo-amrwbenc –enable-version3 –enable-libvpx
libavutil 52. 64.100 / 52. 64.100
libavcodec 55. 52.102 / 55. 52.102
libavformat 55. 32.101 / 55. 32.101
libavdevice 55. 9.101 / 55. 9.101
libavfilter 4. 1.102 / 4. 1.102
libswscale 2. 5.101 / 2. 5.101
libswresample 0. 17.104 / 0. 17.104
libpostproc 52. 3.100 / 52. 3.100
6. If you want to be able to execute FFMPEG from any directory, simply create a symlink into /usr/bin like this:
ln -s /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg/ffmpeg /usr/bin/ffmpeg
The first part (/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg/ffmpeg) is where the file is located after I untarred
the file. The second part (/usr/bin/ffmpeg) is where we want the symlink to go
