Install FFmpeg FFmpeg is a great solution to convert,record and stream video and audio. It includes libavcodec, the leading video/audio codec library. You can get the installation started by fetching the latest installation from ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu. You will have to make sure you have subversion installed, you can get the latest version from subversion.tigris.org Now lets get started, First fetch the latest FFmpeg version svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg If you get svn command not found, this is because subversion is not installed you can install it with yum install subversion Once you have downloaded it, we will just compile it with shared librarys(needed for FFmpeg-php) cd ffmpeg ./configure --enable-shared make make install That's all there is to it. FFmpeg is now installed. If you require FFmpeg-PHP then read this guide - Install FFmpeg-PHP User Comments Scott 2007-07-01 00:43:28 Disable your firewall or allow the port before trying. André Bellafronte 2007-06-29 22:42:32 svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg is time out