Installing precompiled FFMPEG with all plugins enabled

For those that are too busy (or too lazy) to compile it themselves because the version that comes from package managers has plugins disabled

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In this example i am working with STM32MP157x

FFMPEG lazy mode

Before instalation check your machenes architecture dpkg --print-architecture

root@stm32mp2:~# dpkg —print-architecture
     arm64

Now sellect youre spice accordingly to your architecture

amd64: ffmpeg-git-amd64-static.tar.xz
i686:  ffmpeg-git-i686-static.tar.xz
arm64: ffmpeg-git-arm64-static.tar.xz
armhf: ffmpeg-git-armhf-static.tar.xz
armel: ffmpeg-git-armel-static.tar.xz

Download the compressed file wget https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/builds/ffmpeg-git-arm64-static.tar.xz

root@stm32mp2:~# wget https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/builds/ffmpeg-git-arm64-static.tar.xz

     —2025-01-14 17:51:57—  https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/builds/ffmpeg-git-arm64-static.tar.xz
     Resolving johnvansickle.com… 107.180.57.212
     Connecting to johnvansickle.com|107.180.57.212|:443… connected.
     HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
     ALength: 19400492 (19M) [application/x-xz]
     Saving to: ‘ffmpeg-git-arm64-static.tar.xz’
s 
     ffmpeg-git-arm64-static.tar.x 100%[=================================================>]  18.50M   111KB/s    in 5m 59s
s 
     2025-01-14 17:57:57 (52.7 KB/s) - ‘ffmpeg-git-arm64-static.tar.xz’ saved [19400492/19400492]

Extract the tarball tar xvf ffmpeg-git-arm64-static.tar.xz When the process finishes FFMPEG is ready for use, just open the directory cd ffmpeg-git-20240629-arm64-static and run ./ffmpeg -v

Making FFMPEG run globally

One advantage of this is its going to be accesible from anywhere like any other program. Right now to run FFMPEG you need to run it in the original directory

To enable FFMPEG globally run sudo mv ffmpeg-git-20240629-arm64-static/ffmpeg ffmpeg-git-20240629-arm64-static/ffprobe /usr/bin/ outside of the directory

root@stm32mp2:~# sudo mv ffmpeg-git-20240629-arm64-static/ffmpeg ffmpeg-git-20240629-arm64-static/ffprobe /usr/bin/

And that it you can freely use ffmpeg yippee