This guide should work as is for Amazon AMI 2012. How to Install FFmpeg The following steps illustrate how to install FFmpeg version 4.2 from the default package. But if you want to deploy your Node.js application using AWS Lambda or. Some libraries are hidden in EPEL repository, it should be already added but not enabled, so edit /etc//epel.repo and make sure you have enabled=1 there (don't need source and debuginfo sections, we won't be building anything today). And do the same for /etc//rpmforge.repo - should enable extras section.īe warned that there might be some small conflicts between CentOS and Amazon repositories. So, to resolve the problem, one easy solution is to install FFmpeg on the server. Basically, it is a rebranded CentOS using Amazon's repository, which does not have many packages, including ffmpeg and it's dependencies. Your version may vary:ĭetermine which CentOS this is based off (version is in Red Hat X.X.X-x):

An easy way to install ffmpeg on Amazon AMI (special distro for Amazon AWS EC2 service) without using any source packages.

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