I was able to test the no lame version on hostgator. Not sure how kindly they will take to it, but it works. I am using it for Jomsocial.

~k

I might compile such a version as soon as time permits – and as soon as I do set up a compilation pipeline, which does everything [semi-]automatically.

If you are motivated enough to write a really simple bash script which would a) check-out current ffmpeg from svn and then b) compile and rename several targets with different compilation options – then I will run it and post resulting binaries here.

thanks a lot, your binaries are a lifesaver!

I’m not using them for shared hosting but for a Thecus N5200Pro NAS. Your ffmpeg compile is perfect for Gallery2,
but once I had it installed I wanted to transcode some video files to h264.

Do you think you could compile a version with lame, libfaac, libfaad AND libx264? That would be awesome!

Cheers

you can compile vhook-enabled version of ffmpeg yourself, if you need it that badly.

Unfortunately, I am not aware of any video-watermarking tools; I didn’t even know it’s possible with ffmpeg

But is there any good alternative for applying watermarks or logo’s on our video?

after looking into it, I might actually enable vhook for all further compilations of ffmpeg.

New binaries will be added here in the near future.

Also, I might be setting up compilation pipeline, probably even providing daily svn builds of several different ffmpeg configuration targets.

Thanks alot!

I can compile lame/faad/faac binary, but that will have to wait until I’m back to Linux I expect to be able to put up here the new version late this evening (I’m in GMT+2, for reference).

Could you send me the shell script you use at GoDaddy? (via contact form)

It looks like we are creating the “full-featured binary ffmpeg package for shared hostings” here I’m thinking on packaging everything into a single distribution – bundled with that library-support shell script and all the *.so files required by the package-included ffmpeg. That’s pretty simple, but still requires time

Update: faad-version is now available, together with libfaad.so.

EA libfaac
EA libmp3lame

Should there be a D in there for libfaac for it to decode AAC codec?

Thanks!

I just tried it out and it works with non-aac files just fine. However it outputs a 0KB file if I run an AAC file through it. I am using GoDaddy shared hosting if that helps. And I had to create a shell script (as suggested) to initiate the local LD_LIBRARY_PATH which loads in the libmp3lame and libfaac libraries. That seems to be working fine. Any ideas? Thanks again, I feel like I am so close to getting this working.

I’ve just updated the post with fresh compilations. There’s also one with libfaac support. But as long as it’s an external library, you may have to do something similar to what is described here for own libmp3lame support on shared hostings.

Please note, that on godaddy I’m currently using only no-mp3 version of ffmpeg, but mp3 version must be also possible.

I was wondering if I can PM you regarding your installation steps posted above. I need a few more info on how to make it work with godaddy

Thanks

Reymund

thanks for valuable comment – if you don’t mind, I will either cite your experience in the post body or maybe even will write a separate post on using libmp3lame with ffmpeg on shared hosting.

As for the compilation with older glibc – I have no simple methods at hand.

The good news might be that I will compile a new ffmpeg within 2 days from the SVN sources on the same box as the versions currently available here; again, I think there will be two versions – one without and one with lame support. I expect new versions to work on godaddy, as the current versions do. If I do not update the post with new ffmpeg binaries – please comment here to remind me…

Gabe, two more questions: 1) can you prove or disprove this post (probably you observed some weird behaviour which can be explained with CPU time limitation), and 2) which web frontend to ffmpeg do you use? Is that Gallery2 or something else?

I don’t know what kind of a project you have, but in Gallery2 (to the best of my knowledge) ffmpeg is used only for three basic things, which do not include video recoding: 1) determining video size, 2) generating thumbnails, and 3) providing means to choose any frame for a thumbnail. Thus, libmp3lame support isn’t required by Gallery2 to be present in ffmpeg. Extra video codecs, though, might be needed if you upload videos encoded with those extra codecs…

Did you find anything worthy on VP6 support in ffmpeg? Any FAQs, official feature description docs, probably some binary packages? If you do find info on enabling VP6 in ffmpeg and post that here, I might compile the version exclusively for you