FFmpeg Installers

For the Stream Video Player for WordPress I use FFmpeg to encode the video to a MP4 video, using H.264 for video codec and AAC as audio codec, this kind of video format it’s supported for Flash Player since version 9.0.115.0 that was released on December 3, 2007 and today checking my Google Analytics more than the 90% of the users have a greater version of Flash Player.

FFmpeg it’s one of the best video tools I found on the web, its open source and it’s hard to find in a compiled form, because I know the hard to have a good compilation I decided to make this installers so you have an easy way to have FFmpeg on your PC.

• GNU Linux – Ubuntu
• Mac OS X (Intel)
• Windows
• Windows 7

GNU Linux – Ubuntu

Open the Terminal

paste each one of the fallowing lines:
wget http://tools.rodrigopolo.com/bin/gnulnx/binkit-v1.3.tar.gz
tar xzf binkit-v1.3.tar.gz
cd binkit-v1.3/
./install.sh
cd ..
rm -rf ./binkit-v1.3
rm binkit-v1.3.tar.gz

Mac OS X (Intel)

Enter to the Terminal that it’s located on the Utilities folder, inside the Applications folder

paste each one of the fallowing lines:

curl -O http://tools.rodrigopolo.com/bin/mac/binkit-v1.3.tar.gz
tar xzf binkit-v1.3.tar.gz
cd binkit-v1.3/
./install.sh
cd ..
rm -rf ./binkit-v1.3
rm binkit-v1.3.tar.gz

Windows

• Download
• Unzip
• Right click on “install.bat”
• Run as administrator

Windows 7

To check that everything it’s working fine you just need to type “ffmpeg” on the terminal or command promt.

One of the most important reasons for getting a binary version of FFmpeg is because the original package comes without some libraries that are necessary for our video encoding.

Anyway, if you want to do your own FFmpeg compilation you are free to by searching online for any guide for your operating system.

If you need more help here is a screencast (video tutorial) on how to install and encode video:

http://rodrigopolo.com/about/wp-stream-video/how-to