Install ffmpeg on debian

Updated at: 01/09/2016

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Install ffmpeg from source

Alternatively, you can install from source. This is how to create a .deb file using checkinstall which can then be uninstalled again. Install these packages, yasm or nasm is needed for ffmpeg specifically, the others are generally useful for building packages:

sudo apt-get install yasm nasm \
                build-essential automake autoconf \
                libtool pkg-config libcurl4-openssl-dev \
                intltool libxml2-dev libgtk2.0-dev \
                libnotify-dev libglib2.0-dev libevent-dev \
                checkinstall

Next, clone the ffmpeg package or download the latest snapshot:

git clone git://git.videolan.org/ffmpeg.git

Compile ffmpeg:

sudo mkdir /usr/share/ffmpeg
cd ffmpeg
./configure --prefix=/usr
time make -j 8
cat RELEASE
sudo checkinstall

Follow the instructions, give a packege name (i.e. ffmpeg_git), then change version with the output of RELEASE Most of the checkinstall defaults are fine, but a version number is required. The current version is displayed by "cat RELEASE". This should create a deb file in the current directory. Finally, install the deb file you made using dpkg:

sudo dpkg --install ffmpeg_*.deb

Reference: http://superuser.com/questions/286675/how-to-install-ffmpeg-on-debian