How to install ffmpeg on a VPS

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In this tutorial we will show you how to install FFMPEG on your VPS and allow you to use video streaming. To perform the installation you will have to log to your VPS through SSH and with your root password. From the shell interface you will need to use the following command lines to perform the installation:

It is possible that in the process you may receive a package not found error. In such cases you will have to add few lines of code to the yum repository for dag packages installation in order to solve this problem. To do this create a file named dag.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d and enter the following lines in it:

If you do not receive any more errors in the process then the installation will complete correctly and you will have the FFMPEG installed.If not you will receive warnings about a missing GPG public key. To fix this issue you will have to run the following command line in the console:

If at some point you receive a missing dependency error like the example below:

then most probably the version of GLIB 2.3 that you have installed is older than the required version. To check what version of GLIB you have installed on your VPS just run:

This should show you the latest GLIB package version.

To solve this matter you will need to check if your rpmforge packages are compatible with the current release of your existing CentOS version.

You can check the file /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo and it should look something like that for example CentOS release 5.4 (Final). If you find lines like https://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/mirrors-rpmforge you will have to do some changed to the rpmforge.repos like the example below:

To check what is the current version and distribution of Linux that you are using type the following command:

Once you have done all of the steps above, perform again yum install ffmpeg. This should solve the problems that you have received in the process. After the installation completes you may check if ffmpeg is working correctly with the following commands.

You can see the ffmped output in the ffmpeg-formats.txt file

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