I was looking so many times in the net how to install ffmpeg and all codecs + ffmpeg-php and make it working from the first time …

Well … I found a solution . It’s very simple and easy.

1. You have to have installed PHP on your server. It’s better to install the latest version which is now 5.2.9 i think.

2. After you are done with this just follow these steps in the linux console (most of the times we use putty)

mkdir ~/ffmpeg-packages
cd ~/ffmpeg-packages
wget <a title="http://trulymanaged.com/ffmpeg/ffmpeginstall.tar.gz" href="http://trulymanaged.com/ffmpeg/ffmpeginstall.tar.gz">http://trulymanaged.com/ffmpeg/ffmpeginstall.tar.gz</a>
tar -xvzf ffmpeginstall.tar.gz
cd ffmpeginstall

If you don’t want the author to be emailed upon a successful installation, comment out line 47 of install.sh Here is how…

At the command prompt

# nano install.sh

Now comment out line 47

From

echo `hostname -i `|mail -s " FFmpeg installed $_version " vps @ esds.com

To

# echo `hostname -i `|mail -s " FFmpeg installed $_version " vps @ esds.com

Once you have done with this (if you want of course) just run the install script

./install.sh

After everything is done, just reboot your server and check your php configuration (create a php file and use phpinfo() function to get the config of php) if everything is ok and you have installed ffmpeg properly.