FFmpeg on Mac OS X by Stephen Jungels: http://stephenjungels.com/jungels.net/articles/ffmpeg-howto.htmlYASM: http://yasm.tortall.net/FFmpeg: http://ffmpeg.org/
Obtaining the source code and installation is pretty straightforward for the most part, basically just download the source code tar ball ( filename.tar.gz), decompress, untar, move to /usr/local/ (optional), and follow the installation instruction in the INSTALL file included in the source code. In short, do:
sudo ./configure sudo make sudo make check sudo make install
FFmpeg is slightly different in that it is recommended to check out the latest version via svn:
svn checkout svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg
The version that I got working on Mac OS 10.6.1 is:
Checked out external at revision 29714. Checked out revision 20024.
Historically, I also had revision 19667 worked on Mac OS 10.5.8 and revision 19638 worked on Mac OS 10.5.7.
To configure and install, do:
./configure --enable-shared --enable-libmp3lame
The 2 additional arguments specify the build to enable shared libraries and LAME for mp3 support.
Because Mac OS 10.6 is a 64-bit OS, some additional flags are necessary when configuring the FFMpeg:
./configure --enable-shared --enable-libmp3lame --extra-cflags=-m64 --extra-ldflags=-m64 --arch=x86_64
In the case that the code can not be compiled, disable the mmx support by:
./configure --enable-shared --enable-libmp3lame --disable-mmx
This may result in slower encoding but should reduce the trouble when compiling.
To use FFmpeg, the simplest command is:
ffmpeg -i input_file output_file
The program will recognize the file formats based on the filename extensions.
To add more control, run ffmpeg -h to see all possible options. The most commonly used ones include:
For example:
ffmpeg -i input.AVI -b 600k -r 24 -s 640x480 -ab 96k -ar 44100 output.FLV