What's Inside

This installer builds FFmpeg from source with the following encoders enabled:

| Encoder | Format | Type | |---------|--------|------| | x264 | H.264 | Video | | x265 | H.265 / HEVC | Video | | libvpx | VP8 / VP9 | Video | | libaom | AV1 | Video | | fdk-aac | AAC | Audio | | LAME | MP3 | Audio | | Opus | Opus | Audio | | Vorbis | Vorbis | Audio |

All libraries are built as static and installed to ~/ffmpeg_build. The ffmpeg binary is installed to ~/bin.

Based on the official FFmpeg compilation guide for CentOS.

Supported Platforms

| Distro | Package Manager | |--------|----------------| | CentOS / RHEL | yum | | Rocky / AlmaLinux / Amazon Linux / Fedora | dnf | | Ubuntu / Debian | apt |

The installer auto-detects your OS via /etc/os-release and uses the correct package manager.

Prerequisites

• One of the supported platforms above
• cmake 3.5+ (automatically upgraded by the installer if below 3.5)

Quick Start

Install

chmod +x ./bin/install.sh
./bin/install.sh

Uninstall

chmod +x ./bin/uninstall.sh
./bin/uninstall.sh

FFmpeg Command Examples

Video to Sequential Images

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf fps=1 output_%04d.png

Sequential Images to MP4

ffmpeg -framerate 1 -i input_%04d.png -vcodec libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p -r 60 output.mp4

| Parameter | Description | |-----------|-------------| | -framerate | Input frame rate (images per second) | | -r | Output frame rate | | -vcodec libx264 | H.264 encoder | | -pix_fmt yuv420p | Pixel format for broad compatibility |

Sequential Images to GIF

ffmpeg -framerate 1 -i input_%04d.png -r 60 -vf scale=512:-1 output.gif

| Parameter | Description | |-----------|-------------| | -vf scale=512:-1 | Scale width to 512px, maintain aspect ratio. Omit for original size |

Node.js Examples

Using ffmpeg-stream:

cd examples
npm install
node images2mp4.js
node images2gif.js

| Description | File | |-------------|------| | Images to MP4 | examples/images2mp4.js | | Images to GIF | examples/images2gif.js |

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md for release history.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.

Author

• X: @shumatsumonobu
• GitHub: shumatsumonobu
• Email: [email protected]