Compile ffmpeg for Ubuntu 10 (lucid)

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deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid multiverse
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Install packages

sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion git-core checkinstall yasm texi2html libfaad-dev libmp3lame-dev libopencore-amrnb-dev libopencore-amrwb-dev libsdl1.2-dev libx11-dev zlib1g-dev libfaac-dev liblame-dev libfaad2-dev libfaac-dev libxvidcore4-dev liba52-0.7.4 liba52-0.7.4-dev libdts-dev checkinstall libxvidcore4 libtheora-dev

Install libraries

git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264.git
./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared; make; sudo make install

Get the ffmpeg source

git clone git://git.videolan.org/ffmpeg.git ffmpeg

apt-get install yasm

Configure and make ffmpeg

./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-libx264 --enable-libmp3lame --enable-nonfree --enable-gpl --enable-libvorbis
make
sudo make install

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Download and install yasm

$ cd yasm
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr
$ make; sudo make install

Download and compile faac - mpeg2 and mpeg4 AAC encoder/decoder http://www.audiocoding.com/faac.html

$ cd faac-1.28
$ ./bootstrap
$ ./configure prefix=/usr
$ make;sudo make install

Download and compile faad

$ cd faad2
$ ./autoreconf -vif
$ ./configure prefix=/usr
$ make;sudo make install

Download and compile libmp3lame, the lame mp3 library.

$ cd libmp3lame
$ ./configure prefix=/usr
$ make;sudo make install

Download and compile xvidcore

$ cd xvidcore/build/generic
$ ./configure prefix=/usr
$ make;sudo make install

Download and compile libx264

$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --enabled-shared --enable-pic
$ make; sudo make install

Download and compile libogg http://xiph.org/downloads/

$ ./configure --prefix=/usr
$ make
$ sudo make install

Download and compile libvorbis http://xiph.org/downloads

$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

Download and compile libtheora http://www.theora.org/downloads/ Initially i was getting complaints about not finding libogg, but disappeared after running

$ sudo ldconfig

To compile libtheora do this:

$ ./configure --prefix=/usr
$ make
$ sudo make install

Download and compile ffmpeg

$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-nonfree  --enable-libx264 --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libfaac
make
sudo make install