ffmpeg installation problem

[Martin Trudel]

Hi, 

I had a problem with the script for the installation of ffmpeg from this page :

http://docs.bigbluebutton.org/install/install.html#install-ffmpeg

It seems there is a problem with the file http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-2.3.3.tar.bz2 that cannot be untar.

So I changed it with this one http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-2.3.3.tar.gz

So in the script we need to change those parts :

sudo wget "http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-${FFMPEG_VERSION}.tar.gz"

sudo tar -xzf "ffmpeg-${FFMPEG_VERSION}.tar.gz"

There is also something missing to use this command :

ffmpeg -version

There is no link to /usr/bin

By the way, I would like to know if we BBB support newer versions of ffmpeg ?

Would it be possible to use a deb file or better a ppa to install it instead of compiling it ?

[Fred Dixon]

Hi Martin,

Hmm ... we just tried the following two commands

  wget  http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-2.3.3.tar.bz2

  tar -xjf ffmpeg-2.3.3.tar.bz2

and it did work.  Also, the command

  ffmpeg -version

did work as well (/usr/bin/ is in our path).

> By the way, I would like to know if we BBB support newer versions of ffmpeg ?

You can, but we only tested 1.0 with the version listed in the install steps.

> Would it be possible to use a deb file or better a ppa to install it instead of compiling it ?

We're working on BigBlueButton 1.1-dev and it's running on Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit. We using the built-in package for ffmpeg which is 2.8.6-1ubuntu2.  No more manual install of ffmpeg in the upcoming BigBlueButton 1.1-beta release.

Regards,... Fred

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[Martin Trudel]

Thanks for the fast answer.

I don't know what happened with the tar.bz2 file that stopped the script because it sait it was corrupted.

Now it seems to work but ffmpeg is already installed so I dont know if it would happen again...

I tried to add /usr/bin with this command :

echo "PATH=\$PATH:/usr/local/bin" >> ~/.bashrc

and

echo "PATH=\$PATH:/usr/local/src" >> ~/.bashrc

Still have this error :

root@ubuntu:~# ffmpeg --check
-bash: /usr/bin/ffmpeg: No such file or directory

[Fred Dixon]

Hi Martin,

Can you try the following two commands and compare the output with your server

$ which ffmpeg

/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg

$ dpkg -l | grep ffmpeg

ii  ffmpeg                                5:2.3.3-1                              amd64        Package created with checkinstall 1.6.2

Regards,... Fred

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