ffmpeg - Record, covert, play and stream audio and video HOWTO

ChangeLog


2019-02-02	- 3.2.2 -> 4.1
		- Added link to Git repository
		- bz2 to xz
		- sha1sum to sha256sum
2017-01-26	- 2.0 -> 3.2.2
		- Removed the Subversion section
		- Added --docdir for configure instead of ASS|u|me-ing that
		  everyone has a /usr/local/share/doc to /usr/local/doc
		  symlink (or knows to look in both places)
		- Added cleanup of old shared library files and symlinks
		  before 'make install'
		- Updated removal at bottom to include lib64
		- Added --disable-cuda
		- And removed it again - didn't help the issue I was
		  having
2013-07-12	- Added 2.0
		- Changed home page URL from:
		  http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/ (which still works)
		  to:
		  http://ffmpeg.org/
2008-04-07	- Boy do they like to change the configure flags:
		  * Removed --enable-libogg, no longer there
		  * Replaced --enable-pp with --enable-postproc
		  * Replaced --enable-swscaler with --enable-swscale
		- Changed home page URL from:
		  http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/
		  to
		  http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/
2007-10-15	- Added libswscale, used by Kdenlive (kdenlive.org)
		- Changed --enable-mp3lame to --enable-libmp3lame
		- Changed --enable-vorbis to --enable-libvorbis
		- Changed --enable-faac to --enable-libfaac
		- Changed --enable-faad to --enable-libfaad
		- Changed --enable-xvid to --enable-libxvid
		- Changed --enable-x264 to --enable-libx264
		- Changed --enable-a52 to --enable-liba52
Dec 28, 2006	- Fixed (well, not really fixed...) a 2nd " problem
		  in configure
		- Changed dts link to point to the new libdca/libdts howto
Nov 7, 2006	- Removed the 0.4.8 tarball section
		- Fix a " problem with the current SVN version
Aug 17, 2006	- Removed CVS
		- Added Subversion
Mar 9, 2006	- Added note about xvid
Dec 30, 2005	- Remove libpostproc.* too (mplayer's) before 'make install'
		- Added --enable-pp (in addition to --enable-shared-pp)
		- Run 'make distclean' when there's a config.mak, not
		  when there's a Makefile
Dec 14, 2005	- Added missing 'cd' (for the CVS version)
		- Added --enable-libogg (CVS ver)
		- Added --enable-theora (CVS ver)
		- Added prerequisite links for x264 and dts (CVS ver)
Jun 24, 2005	- Moved source directory (see note <a href="howtos.php?msd">here</a>
		- Removed make, gcc, binutils, fileutils/coreutils links
		- Rearrange options to shut up new version of find
		- root.root -> root:root, run when $UID = 0
Jan 10, 2005	- Added --enable-shared-pp, links with mplayer's libpostproc
Nov 12, 2004	- Added instructions for installing ffmpeg from CVS
Sep 24, 2004	- Added " or coreutils" to the fileutils prerequisite
Nov 5, 2003	- First entry (this used to be part of the mplayer howto)

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