FFmpeg in RHEL/CentOS 7 notes

FFmpeg in RHEL/CentOS 7 notes Hi, I know you don't have RHEL/CentOS7 (further referred to as EL7) repo yet so I got ffmpeg working myself and thought I'd share my notes. Initially I tried the 0.10.11 version and I got it to build, but encoding to h.264 would segfault. Also I had to disable libcdio because w/ libcdio support, the libcdio-devel in EL7 doesn't provide a header it wants, it looks like a change in libcdio. I then tried 0.10.15 and still would segfault going to h.264 Then I tried a radical change to 2.4.1 and still would segfault. Going to 2.4.1 also wanted a newer version of celt but celt is now merged into opus anyway. The problem I was experiencing was actually the fault of the x264 snapshot. The x264 snapshop you have in your EL6 src.rpm repo is a few years old, so I grabbed a new snapshop - redid the bootstrap - and then FFmpeg did not have a problem encoding to h.264 http://awel.domblogger.net/7/media/src/repoview/x264.html has my x264 package. I *hope* I got the version right. Also to build it after the bootstrap, I had to disable gpac support because I couldn't get gpac to build against the updated x264. It's possible an updated snapshot of gpac will fix that, I haven't tried (yet). Anyway if anyone else is trying to build ffmpeg in EL7 and having the same segfault issue I had, updating the x264 snapshot did resolves it for me.