Compile and Build FFMPEG on Windows Platform
Installing FFMPEG from the source in window platform is easy as you do for other window application. Here is the complete instructios how to build FFMPEG in windows. To install FFMPEG on windows you need to install third party MinGW and MSys library that is compatible with GCC. This library is required to build ffmpeg in windows and support shell to run commands.
Download MinGW and MSys
MinGW: MinGW Direct download link
MSys: MSys Direct download link
SF Link: Sourceforge MinGW MSys Package Download Page
FFMPEG: FFMPEG Download fully patched version
Building FFMPEG
It is time to install ffmpeg. Extract downloaded ffmpeg archive in c: folder. If you have not downloaded yet please download now then run MSys.bat file from C:\msys\1.0\ folder. This location will be depend on you MinGW and MSys installation. In the command prompt run the following commands:
$ cd c:/ffmpeg-0.4.7
$ ./configure –extra-cflags=”-mno-cygwin -mms-bitfields” –extra-ldflags=”-Wl,–add-stdcall-alias” –enable-mingw32 –enable-shared –disable-a52 –disable-pp –disable-ffserver –disable-ffplay
$ make
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December 23rd, 2009 at 5:26 am
Hello sir, i was looking at how you did to install ffmpeg. it goes fine until the last point.
$ gcc -mno-cygwin -mms-bitfields -Wall -g -DHAVE_AV_CONFIG_H -I.. -D_FILE_OFFSE
T_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -c -o common.o common.c
gcc.exe: common.c: No such file or directory
gcc.exe: no input files
when i type the above code it cannot find gcc and i have tested gcc in command prompt.it is there.Can you please clear out my doubts.I am very new to programming.Have been tryng real hard to get ffmpeg installed since 24 hours already…
Thank you!
December 23rd, 2009 at 5:33 am
ohh..im so sorry.silly me!! i didnt notice that what i typed at the end was infact displayed. Just to be sure can u please clear out my doubt whether the last step was indeed make.
One more thing, how will i get to execute ffmpeg for conversions? most of the codes i came across through have used something like “c:/ffmpeg.exe” how will i knw the path to mine,since i don’t find it in my drive..
A quick reply will be very appreciated.
January 10th, 2010 at 8:06 am
Hi how do i verify the ffMPEG is created successfully? I am getting an error
make[1]: *** [libavcodec.so] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/e/ffmpeg-047/libavcodec’
make: *** [lib] Error 2
and I dont see anywher ffMPEG.exe or .dll created. Can you please help.
Thank you
January 10th, 2010 at 8:47 am
Did your MingW and MSys package were installed successfully?
July 22nd, 2010 at 4:10 am
Hi
I have followed the steps you have mentioned. But on compilation i get an error as follows.
liba52/a52.h: No such file or directory
etc
Could you please point to the location where i can find this file.
Thanks in advance
Santosh
August 22nd, 2010 at 11:40 pm
hi i am converting audio file through ffmpeg.exe.
i am facing the path problem if in path there is space then it is not able to read it.
ex:- D:\Project\WebSites\audioduration2\videos\org video\a.wmv
its showing error like that:
FFmpeg version SVN-r10461, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al. configuration: –enable-memalign-hack –enable-libamr-nb –enable-libamr-wb –enable-libfaac –enable-libgsm –enable-libmp3lame –enable-libogg –enable-libtheora –enable-libvorbis –enable-shared –disable-static –enable-liba52 –enable-libx264 –enable-libxvid –enable-libfaad –enable-swscaler –enable-gpl –enable-avisynth –cpu=i686 –enable-pthreads libavutil version: 49.5.0 libavcodec version: 51.43.0 libavformat version: 51.12.2 built on Sep 11 2007 01:30:32, gcc: 4.2.1-sjlj (mingw32-2) D:\Project\WebSites\audioduration2\videos\org: no such file or directory