Install FFmpeg

Installing FFmpeg on your website opens up a world of multimedia possibilities. It's a powerful tool that helps you handle and manipulate different audio and video formats.

With FFmpeg, you can encode, decode, and convert videos, as well as manipulate and convert audio files. This means you can support dynamic multimedia content on your website, improve media playback, and seamlessly integrate with other multimedia tools.

This guide covers installing FFmpeg on CentOS and AlmaLinux.

Install FFmpeg on CentOS

IMPORTANT: This solution will require root access. If this needs to be obtained, follow the guide on requesting root access.

1. SSH into the server as root
2. Install the EPEL repository
   

   yum install epel-release

3. Install the 3rd party RPM Fusion repository
   

   yum localinstall --nogpgcheck https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/rpmfusion-free-release-7.noarch.rpm

4. Install the ffmpeg and ffmpeg-devel packages along with their dependencies
   

   yum -y install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel

5. Test the installation
   

   ffmpeg -version

   TIP: If the installation was successful, this command will output version information for FFmpeg.
   EXAMPLE:

   root@vps12345 [~]# ffmpeg -version
   ffmpeg version N-100689-gdf4e2b9 Copyright (c) 2000-2021 the FFmpeg developers
   built with gcc 4.8.5 (GCC) 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-44)

Install FFmpeg on AlmaLinux

IMPORTANT: This solution will require root access. If this needs to be obtained, follow the guide on requesting root access.

1. SSH into the server as root
2. Install and enable the EPEL repository

   dnf -y install https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
   yum-config-manager --enable powertools

3. Install the 3rd party RPM Fusion repository
   

   dnf install --nogpgcheck https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/el/rpmfusion-free-release-8.noarch.rpm -y
   dnf install --nogpgcheck https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/el/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-8.noarch.rpm -y

4. Install the ffmpeg and ffmpeg-devel packages along with their dependencies
   

   dnf -y install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel

5. Test the installation
   

   ffmpeg -version

   TIP: If the installation was successful, this command will output version information for FFmpeg.
   EXAMPLE:
   

   root@vps12345 [~]# ffmpeg -version
   ffmpeg version 4.2.8 Copyright (c) 2000-2022 the FFmpeg developers
   built with gcc 8 (GCC)