How to Install FFmpeg in Linux ~The Easy Way~
FFmpeg is so important if you are planning to run a video website with streaming with conversion of video files to different video formats. This tutorial is intended for Centos/Redhat versions of Linux where any novice user can install ffmpeg without compiling the source which is a more traditional way of installing the FFmpeg software on linux servers. In this tutorial i will show you the easy way to install ffmpeg and ffmpeg-php (php extension) with just yum rather than compiling ffmpeg from source files.
FFmpeg (http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu)
Mplayer + Mencoder (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html)
Flv2tool (http://inlet-media.de/flvtool2)
Libogg + Libvorbis (http://www.xiph.org/downloads)
LAME MP3 Encoder (http://lame.sourceforge.net)
FlowPlayer – A Free Flash Video Player – http://flowplayer.org/
Installing FFMpeg
When you’re running REDHAT/CENTOS platform for your server, sometimes the RPM wont run normally or become stuck. This caused by the RPM database not properly builded or been corrupted.
Errors would be like :
rpmdb: Program version 4.3 doesn’t match environment version
error: db4 error(-30974) from dbenv->open: DB_VERSION_MISMATCH: Database environment version mismatch
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 – (-30974)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpmrpmdb: Program version 4.3 doesn’t match environment version
error: db4 error(-30974) from dbenv->open: DB_VERSION_MISMATCH: Database environment version mismatch
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
So, to solve those issues,
you can run these commands from ROOT access:
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
rpm -vv –rebuilddb
The ‘-vv’ parameter on rpm, will STDOUT.
To run it as background process, do:
rpm –rebuilddb &
