FFmpeg

[AnjanaNiranjan]

How do I install FFmpeg?

[javierrcc522]

https://www.hackster.io/whitebank/rasbperry-pi-ffmpeg-install-and-stream-to-web-389c34
this might help but be aware that ffserver has been removed from newer release so you are going to figure that one out

[RyanZotti]

Yes, ffmpeg is definitely a huge pain to install. 2 years ago when I was trying to install it I tried countless different approaches (including skipping ffmpeg altogether). I tried so many things that I didn’t know which approach worked because my system had become a huge mess. Once ffmpeg worked though I never had to touch it again, so I’ve never had to relive the install pain and therefore haven’t had an opportunity to re-document it.

It’s likely that you could just use another open source video streaming library (there are probably newer and better ones available). You’ll probably have to change a small portion of the python code in my repo, but it might save you the ffmpeg install headache.

Sorry I couldn’t be of more help. I honestly hate ffmpeg. Let me know if you come across something better that you would recommend to others.

[nijisakai]

wget https://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-3.4.4.tar.bz2
inside of
git clone git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
will do the trick.