Building/Installing ffmpeg

OSX

If you run OSX, like me, the easiest thing to do is to download the ffmpegx binary... it's all ready to go! If you install ffmpegx in /Applications then your "ffmpeg path" in config is:

 /Applications/ffmpegX.app/Contents/Resources/ffmpeg

Here are the config options used by ffmpegx... faac (AAC support) and x264 (GPL H.264 support) are the most emportant parts I think...

--enable-memalign-hack --enable-mp3lame --enable-gpl --disable-vhook --disable-ffplay \
    --disable-ffserver --enable-a52 --enable-xvid --enable-faac --enable-faad --enable-amr_nb \
    --enable-amr_wb --enable-pthreads --enable-x264

WINDOWS

UNOFFICIAL: Windows ffmpeg binaries

I was able to get things working on my windows machine with this precomiled binary:

http://arrozcru.no-ip.org/ffmpeg_builds/static/ffmpeg-SVN-r7215-static-gpl-win32.zip

I put the files in the zip into c:\ffmpeg and set the ffmpeg path in config to:

     \ffmpeg\ffmpeg.exe

LINUX

If you run Linux, you can probably get ffmpeg from your package manager... or check out the code and do that "./configure;make;sudo make install" thing. (See OSX instructions for some compile flag hints)