How to install FFMPEG encoders on Linux CentOS 5 Server

Question

I need to install

• LAME MP3 Encoder
• Libogg + Libvorbis
• Mencoder and also Mplayer
• FFMpeg-PHP

For a script called PHPmotion. I do have root access so please does anyone have a step by step. I am fairly comfortable with linux commands, but I am not a pro by any means.

Answer 1

Our internal wiki page at work on doing this references http://vexxhost.com/blog/2007/03/03/installing-ffmpeg-ffmpeg-php-mplayer-mencoder-flv2tool-lame-mp3-encoder-libogg-–-the-easy-way/ (you'll have to fix up the URL manually, I have NFI what they've put in the middle of it) -- I haven't tried it myself, and the page is looking a bit old now, but it should at least get you on the right track.

Answer 2

I don't generally need media/codecs stuff for my Centos boxes, but I definitely do on my Fedora desktops. For the latter case, I get them from RPMFusion, which just happens to have repositories for RHEL5-compatible releases so I would suggest looking there first.