How to install ffmpeg on CentOS or Redhat Enteprirse Linux the easy way

This is the easy way to install ffmpeg on CentOS or RHEL/Redhat Enterprise Linux the easy way.

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo

Insert the following:

[dag]
name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1

Add the

/usr/local/lib

to

/etc/ld.so.conf

Then run:

ldconfig -v

Then run the following:

rpm -Uvh http://apt.sw.be/packages/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm
yum update
yum install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel

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