Installing ffmpeg on Fedora Core 10

Posted by Slavi Marinov | Feb 7, 2009 | General | 52

In a perfect world you'd execute "yum install ffmpeg" and yum will install the dependencies but sometimes it does not work without some extra effort.

Solution
Adding an additional yum repository.

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rpm --import http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
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[code]
# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo
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Paste the contents

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[atrpms]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms
baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/f$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable
gpgkey=http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
gpgcheck=1
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Execute the install command again

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yum install ffmpeg
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Related:
http://atrpms.net/install.html

Voila.
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52 Comments

Steve Tucker on February 9, 2009 at 7:35 am

Thanks a million, this TIP save me loads of time.
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Svetoslav Marinov on February 9, 2009 at 8:51 pm

That's great! I am glad that it saved you some time.
Slavi
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Jens on March 3, 2009 at 3:35 pm

It rocks thanks :-)
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- Svetoslav Marinov on March 10, 2009 at 5:15 pm
  
  Cool. :D
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Brad Wood on April 10, 2009 at 5:12 am

You're a lifesaver - that just saved me an entire night! Thank you!
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- Svetoslav Marinov on April 15, 2009 at 5:27 pm
  
  Thanks :D
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Pranav on April 21, 2009 at 4:13 am

Hello Svetoslav Marinov, Thank you for such a good information with us. Can you give some more info about creating yum repositories and all that kind of stuff?
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- Svetoslav Marinov on May 3, 2009 at 9:41 am
  
  Hi,
  Thank you for posting your comment and question.
  I believe there was a line in the yum where you can enable the mirror list.
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bajeboy on May 7, 2009 at 9:34 pm

Sorry but I get this error message, can anyone assist me?

http://dl.atrpms.net/f8-i386/atrpms/stable/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: atrpms. Please verify its path and try again

Thanks
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- Svetoslav Marinov on May 8, 2009 at 8:28 pm
  
  Could you look for mirrors in the config files ?
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bajeboy on May 8, 2009 at 8:30 pm

Hi Svetoslav,

I actually got it to work,

Thanks a million
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Svetoslav Marinov on May 8, 2009 at 8:34 pm

Nice to hear that! :D
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M on May 10, 2009 at 11:00 am

Thanks a lot.. it indead saved me some time
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- Svetoslav Marinov on May 10, 2009 at 11:52 am
  
  I am glad it did!
  Thanks for commenting.
  Nice email by the way ;)
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Ben Kim on May 18, 2009 at 12:57 am

Thanks a million.
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- Svetoslav Marinov on May 19, 2009 at 5:15 pm
  
  No problem!
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Monirul Islam on May 19, 2009 at 9:58 am

Will the above described process install everything mentioned follow?
- FFmpeg-PHP
- Mplayer
- Mencoder
- flv2tool
- LAME MP3 Encoder

If not could you please explain a bit more?
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- Svetoslav Marinov on May 19, 2009 at 5:23 pm
  
  Hi,
  
  the command will try to install only ffmpeg and it pre-requisits.
  You have to perform separated calls to yum.
  
  e.g.
  yum install flv2tool
  
  also you could do is:
  yum search SOME_TEXT
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NS on June 5, 2009 at 2:23 pm

Svetoslav, your blog entry is a life-saver. Thanks a bunch for posting this piece of info.
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- Svetoslav Marinov on July 14, 2009 at 7:28 pm
  
  Thanks for your nice words!
  I am glad my blog helps people.
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Wes on June 16, 2009 at 9:04 am

Thanks! I'd been trying to install this for ages and getting nowhere fast!

Wes
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- Svetoslav Marinov on July 14, 2009 at 7:27 pm
  
  Thanks for commenting.
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Donny on July 22, 2009 at 5:19 am

Working smoothly on my FC11 box. Thank you very much for the guide.
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Svetoslav Marinov on July 22, 2009 at 7:10 am

I am it has worked Donny.
No problem.
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David L on August 24, 2009 at 9:47 pm

That is such a cool wy of yumming it!
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- Svetoslav Marinov on August 27, 2009 at 6:48 am
  
  Yep.
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Umesh on August 26, 2009 at 10:32 am

Not working for me in FC9 it says:

http://dl.atrpms.net/f9-i386/atrpms/stable/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: atrpms. Please verify its path and try again
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- Svetoslav Marinov on August 27, 2009 at 6:46 am
  
  that is weird.
  My tip is for fedora 10.
  Maybe there are some small differences there.
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Mike Poole on October 2, 2009 at 7:06 am

Excellent tip. Saved hours. Brilliant!
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- Svetoslav Marinov on November 10, 2009 at 5:46 pm
  
  Thanks Mike
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Bo Diechmann on November 12, 2009 at 5:36 am

You rock !!!
that just worked perfectly :-)

Thanks
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danpaluska on November 17, 2009 at 1:41 pm

ok. this worked for me on fedora 11.

thanks!
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harry on November 30, 2009 at 11:02 am

След няколкочасово лутане се натъкнах на краткия ти и точен guide. Свърши ми страхотна работа, Благодаря!

Ето и моите 5 стинки- инфо , за ffmpeg-php:

Download ffmpeg-php: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=122353&package_id=133626

За да се компилира трябва да се инсталират и devel пакета и зависимостите:

yum install ffmpeg-devel

При компилирането се натъкваш на два проблема, решението, на които намерих тук:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/ffmpeg-php-configuration-errror-748476/

А именно:
tar xjvf ffmpeg-php-0.6.0.tbz2
cd ffmpeg-php-0.6.0
phpize

Трябва да се редактира малко кода, иначе не работи модула:
vi ffmpeg_frame.c
:%s/PIX_FMT_RGBA32/PIX_FMT_RGB32
:wq!

./configure
make

Получава се грешка, която е резултат на синтактична грешка в кода:
make: *** [ffmpeg_frame.lo] Error 1

Workaround:
cp ffmpeg_frame.loT ffmpeg_frame.lo

make
make install

Това е от мен :)
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AO on January 27, 2010 at 4:19 pm

I searched so long for a install-guide for installing ffmpeg on Fedora 12. Seems everyone suggests installing ffmpeg to work out-of-the-box. But it did not (yum install ffmpeg => "Package ffmpeg not found", and all sources were active)!
Finally I found your site via Google. Because the article says "... on Fedora Core 10" I didnt have much hope that it would work. But it did! I'm so glad. Thank you so much!
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- Svetoslav Marinov on May 7, 2010 at 5:20 pm
  
  You're very welcome.
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Pranav on February 8, 2010 at 11:54 am

hi Svetoslav,
I tried recently I got some errors,
http://dl.atrpms.net/f10-i386/atrpms/stable/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: atrpms.
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eggmann on February 20, 2010 at 9:02 pm

You are the Man!!! This took me hours of finding stuff and compiling on Fedora 9. This works flawlessly with Fedora 12. I am using Playstation Media server and this did the trick for streaming my movies from my Linux box. This took me a total of 10 min, that was including PS3 and Xbox 360 media server testing.

Thank you Thank you you have saved me many hours :)
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- Svetoslav Marinov on May 7, 2010 at 5:19 pm
  
  I love to see such comments :)
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david Nahmias on February 21, 2010 at 8:45 pm

Please if anyone can Help.

I am looking to install ffmpeg on fedora 8 64 bit.

if anyone can show me how to install it.

Thank You!

David
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- Svetoslav Marinov on May 7, 2010 at 5:19 pm
  
  I don't think Fedora 8 is supported anymore. maybe you can compile ffmpeg from source ?
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hairmare on March 22, 2010 at 10:30 am

you just saved me from compiling my own ffmpeg, thanks for this no nonsense tutorial.
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- Svetoslav Marinov on May 7, 2010 at 5:15 pm
  
  no problem. thanks for the comment!
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John on March 25, 2010 at 10:39 am

It looks like atrpms is not maintaining f10 repos anymore.
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- Svetoslav Marinov on May 7, 2010 at 5:14 pm
  
  yes, probably that's the case
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Neil Henry on May 20, 2010 at 6:14 pm

I have tried everything to install ffmepg and flvtools on fedora 12 without success.
Your tips did not work, They gave me the error

oaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Config Error: File contains no section headers.
file: file://///etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo, line: 1
'name=Fedora Core 12 - i386 - ATrpmsn'
[root@localhost tmp]#

Any ideas ??
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- Svetoslav Marinov on March 5, 2011 at 4:57 am
  
  nope
  Reply
Nav on May 28, 2010 at 8:24 pm

Thank you, this worked very smooth and easy. Thanks a million
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- Svetoslav Marinov on March 5, 2011 at 4:57 am
  
  nice
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Garfield on July 29, 2010 at 10:52 pm

I followed your instructions and got ffmpeg and ffmpeg-devel installed on my Fedora12. Many thanks!
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- Svetoslav Marinov on October 18, 2010 at 3:57 pm
  
  Great!
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PK on January 13, 2011 at 1:33 pm

Absolutely awesome! Works for Fedora Core 12 equally well. I didn't expect any problems due to Fedora version difference but just wanted to share that it worked on 12.
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Sarah on March 5, 2011 at 8:10 am

Thanks a mill :)
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