Before you start please read this carefully
Since this is a 32bit and 64bit tutorial you will have to uncomment a few lines,
therefore you can’t just copy and paste the code.
We begin by downloading the needed packages:

cd /usr/local/src
# For 64bit distribution uncomment the following line:
#wget http://www3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-amd64-20071007.tar.bz2
# For 32bit distribution uncomment the following line:
#http://www3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20071007.tar.bz2
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/17497/flvtool2-1.0.6.tgz
wget http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/lame/lame-398-2.tar.gz
wget http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ffmpeg-php/ffmpeg-php-0.6.0.tbz2
wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/libvorbis-1.2.3.tar.bz2
wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ogg/libogg-1.1.4.tar.gz
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencore-amr/files/opencore-amr/0.1.2/opencore-amr-0.1.2.tar.gz/download
wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.1.1.tar.bz2

Now that we have all this files, let’s decompress them.

# For 64bit distribution uncomment the following line:
#tar xvjf essential-amd64-20071007.tar.bz2
# For 32bit distribution uncomment the following line:
#tar xvjf essential-20071007.tar.bz2
tar xvzf opencore-amr-0.1.2.tar.gz
tar xvzf flvtool2-1.0.6.tgz
tar xvzf libogg-1.1.4.tar.gz
tar xvjf libvorbis-1.2.3.tar.bz2
tar xvjf ffmpeg-php-0.6.0.tbz2
tar xvzf lame-398-2.tar.gz
tar xvjf libtheora-1.1.1.tar.bz2

Let’s get ffmpeg and mplayer using the default svn available on the official web sites.

mkdir /usr/local/lib/codecs/
svn checkout svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg
svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer
# For 64bit distribution uncomment the following line:
#cp /usr/local/src/essential-amd64-20071007/* /usr/local/lib/codecs/
# For 32bit distribution uncomment the following line:
#cp /usr/local/src/essential-20071007/* /usr/local/lib/codecs/
chmod -R 755 /usr/local/lib/codecs/
mkdir /usr/local/src/tmp
chmod 777 /usr/local/src/tmp
export TMPDIR=/usr/local/src/tmp

Next it’s the boring part, let’s compile all the downloaded packages:

cd /usr/local/src/lame-398-2/
./configure
make
make install

cd /usr/local/src/libogg-1.1.4
./configure
make
make install

cd /usr/local/src/libvorbis-1.2.3
./configure
make
make install

If during ./configure for libvorbis you get this error:

checking for pkg-config... no

Then you need to install pkg-config, this depends on the distribution you are using,
on CentOS run:

yum install pkgconfig
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig

Let’s resume…

cd /usr/local/src/flvtool2-1.0.6
ruby setup.rb config
ruby setup.rb setup
ruby setup.rb install

cd /usr/local/src/mplayer/
./configure --enable-jpeg
make
make install

cd opencore-amr-0.1.2
./configure
make
make install

cd /usr/local/src/libtheora-1.1.1
./configure
make
make install

cd /usr/local/src/ffmpeg
./configure --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis --enable-shared --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-nonfree --enable-libtheora --enable-version3
make
make install

cd /usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.6.0
phpize
./configure
make

At this point you will get a error:

/usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.6.0/ffmpeg_frame.c: In function 'zif_ffmpeg_frame_toGDImage':
/usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.6.0/ffmpeg_frame.c:336: error: 'PIX_FMT_RGBA32' undeclared (first use in this function)
/usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.6.0/ffmpeg_frame.c:336: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.6.0/ffmpeg_frame.c:336: error: for each function it appears in.)
/usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.6.0/ffmpeg_frame.c: In function 'zif_ffmpeg_frame_ffmpeg_frame':
/usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.6.0/ffmpeg_frame.c:421: error: 'PIX_FMT_RGBA32' undeclared (first use in this function)
make: *** [ffmpeg_frame.lo] Error 1

You need to edit ffmpeg_frame.c and replace a few strings, do it using vi like this:

vi ffmpeg_frame.c

Now type :
That’s Shift ; (just in case some one understands this wrong).
When you type : in vi you will be prompted to enter a command, and that will be the following:

%s/PIX_FMT_RGBA32/PIX_FMT_RGB32

Hit enter and you will see that a few strings were replaced.
Save the file by typing

:wq

That’s : and wq (write and quit)
Let’s finish this by compiling ffmpeg-php

make
make install

The final step in this is to activate the extension in php, edit your php.ini,
using cPanel’s advanced editor or use your favorite text editor.
Add this into php.ini:

extension=ffmpeg.so

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