FFmpeg in RHEL/CentOS 7 notes

[Farkas Levente]

try to use nux repo or rebuild their rpm. they've got el7 packages.

On 09/22/2014 07:16 PM, alicewonder at shastaherps.org wrote:
> 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.
> 

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