55 thoughts on “FFmpeg Installers”

1. Hi,

   I am trying to go through your steps to install through my Terminal on my mac. I copied the code exactly but I am being asked for a password from Terminal. Why? and what would the password be?

   thanks

   1. The password is needed in order to allow the shell script to copy the FFmpeg and FLVMeta files in the “oficial” binary directory on tour OS.

      1. But what is the password?

         1. The password of your user on your system.

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3. This is so beautiful :’)

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5. I have tried to enter the comands in to the terminal and nothing happens. Anything I can do now?

6. Hi,

   My AVG virus scan claims the uninstall.bat is infected with VBS/worm. Why is that?

7. Amazing work, thanks! 🙂

   Do you have a 32-bit binary of FLVMeta? I can’t use the binary you provided because it’s a 64-bit executable:

   :~/app/bin$ ./flvmeta
   -sh: ./flvmeta: cannot execute binary file

   :~/app/bin$ file flvmeta
   flvmeta: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.0, not stripped

   1. Well, you can download the source and compile it very easily, make a google search “FLVMeta” and you’ll find the official project page with the source and compilation instructions.

8. thanks a lot!
   it’s too bad you page is not found in GOOGLE:
   http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=ffmpeg+macox+x+binary

   but at least BING bring you as forth result!
   http://www.bing.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=ffmpeg+macox+x+binary

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11. I’m a naive Mac user.
    I’ve installed on OSX as described but cannot get Video DownLoad Helper to “see” it, nor can I find it on hard drive to enter the address manually, can you help please?

    1. I have updated the BinKit and now it’s extremely easy to use it, download it and check the screencasts:
       http://rodrigopolo.com/about/wp-stream-video/ffmpeg-binary-installers-for-win-mac-and-linux

12. i was reading a tutorial on Download Helper Tutorial that uses the Firefox mod. the tutorial shares a way to use the terminal once by installing the “tar.gz” script, do you no longer provide the file?

    here’s the link:
    http://buy4pc.com/apple-2/how-to-convert-your-downloadhelper-videos-on-a-mac/

    1. Hi, I have restored the old information about BinKit 1.3

13. I love the updated BinKit!! Thanks a lot!!

14. Hello,
    I tried a lot but BinKit doesn’t work on my computer. If I drag a .avi File and drop it over the 480p.bat the script open just short but there start no encode. Did I understand something wrong? It was just a HD-avi-File from my digicam.
    Best!

15. BinKit is awesome! Wish there was an easy way to create the thumbnail with BinKit. But all in all, great update!

16. On my Mac,
    The updated BinKit
    just spits out errors
    BinKit-v2.0/4×3/480p.sh: line 102: 2327 Bus error
    BinKit-v2.0/4×3/480p.sh: line 102: 2329 Bus error

    when I try to use the BinKit 1.3,
    ffmpeg just produces this at the end
    [NULL @ 0x54340c]codec not compatible with flv
    Could not write header for output file #0 (incorrect codec parameters ?)

    even though I am using the h264 aac as described.

    guess I’m unable to use streaming on this plugin which makes it unuseable. Pretty sad that an old quicktime plugin from 2006 plays the h624 video flawlessly on macs and pcs.

    1. Hi, just to be clear, BinKit 2.0 is designed to encode video, not to reproduce video, because the encoder is FFmpeg it can encode almost any kind of video to a FLV-H.264-AAC video, but the input has to have some minimal requirements, 1-only 1 video track, 2-only 1 stereo/mono audio track, 3-a well formed video.

       I have tested with most web common video formats and it works great, formats like FLV, MOV, AVI, MPEG, DIVX, etc.

17. Thanks for providing the new BinKit Rodrigo!

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19. tried to use this in window 7 and the command window closes immediately. I can’t see the error messages. anyone else having problems?

    1. It could be that your input file has not the expected video characteristics like only 1 video track, only 1 mono or stereo audio track, you can open the command prompt, call the script and add the file input to see which one the error is.

20. Where are the old installers?! I am in need of the older, more manual, way of encoding with ffmpeg on the command line. I have ffmpeg installed, but flvmeta isn’t working for me. I need the OLD install files for linux. I need to be able to batch these videos.

    Please, where are the old installs? They worked on my old linux box.

    1. There are online now on the same page.

21. This is my old encoding script. If I cannot get the old installer from you, how can I modify this script to work with your binkit?

    …
    #!/bin/bash
    FILES=”*.mov”
    for i in $FILES
    do
    ffmpeg -y -threads 2 -i $i -s 640×352 -aspect 16:9 -r 30000/1001 -b 360k -bt 416k -vcodec libx264 -pass 1 -vpre fastfirstpass -an `echo $i | sed ‘s/(.*).[A-Za-z]{3}/1/’`_sd.flv
    ffmpeg -y -threads 2 -i $i -s 640×352 -aspect 16:9 -r 30000/1001 -b 360k -bt 416k -vcodec libx264 -pass 2 -vpre hq -acodec libfaac -ac 2 -ar 44100 -ab 64k `echo $i | sed ‘s/(.*).[A-Za-z]{3}/1/’`_sd.flv
    ffmpeg -y -threads 2 -i $i -s 1280×720 -aspect 16:9 -r 30000/1001 -b 1536k -bt 1792k -vcodec libx264 -pass 1 -vpre fastfirstpass -an `echo $i | sed ‘s/(.*).[A-Za-z]{3}/1/’`_hd.flv
    ffmpeg -y -threads 2 -i $i -s 1280×720 -aspect 16:9 -r 30000/1001 -b 1536k -bt 1792k -vcodec libx264 -pass 2 -vpre hq -acodec libfaac -ac 2 -ar 44100 -ab 128k `echo $i | sed ‘s/(.*).[A-Za-z]{3}/1/’`_hd.flv
    ffmpeg -y -threads 2 -i $i -s 480×272 -aspect 16:9 -r 30000/1001 -vcodec libx264 -pass 1 -b 360k -bt 416k -vpre iphone -f mp4 -an `echo $i | sed ‘s/(.*).[A-Za-z]{3}/1/’`_iphone.mp4
    ffmpeg -y -threads 2 -i $i -s 480×272 -aspect 16:9 -r 30000/1001 -vcodec libx264 -pass 2 -b 360k -bt 416k -vpre iphone -f mp4 -acodec libfaac -ac 2 -ar 44100 -ab 64k `echo $i | sed ‘s/(.*).[A-Za-z]{3}/1/’`_iphone.mp4
    ffmpeg -i $i -ss 78.5 -s 480×272 -vframes 1 -an -f image2 `echo $i | sed ‘s/(.*).[A-Za-z]{3}/1/’`_preview.jpg
    flvmeta `echo $i | sed ‘s/(.*).[A-Za-z]{3}/1/’`_sd.flv `echo $i | sed ‘s/(.*).[A-Za-z]{3}/1/’`_sd_stream.flv
    flvmeta `echo $i | sed ‘s/(.*).[A-Za-z]{3}/1/’`_hd.flv `echo $i | sed ‘s/(.*).[A-Za-z]{3}/1/’`_hd_stream.flv
    done

    …

    1. Is on the same url now

22. How can you do batch operations with your Binkit, preferably on Linux? I have 90+ that I need to encode and I’d prefer not to do them manually.

    Also, you don’t have a present for making a still image. Could you perhaps make a preset for that as well?

    1. Hi, there are some hints on pseudo stream video encoding on this link
       http://rodrigopolo.com/about/wp-stream-video/encoding-stream-video

       The snapshot included.

23. A big ‘noob’, I have copied over bin-kitv2.0 and am getting the disappearing screen similar to Jeff and you informed him on how he needs to call the script in the command prompt. Although I just do not know how the code to ‘call’ it, I can get the folder but my cmd knowledge is not that good.
    Also, if it turns out the video has more than 1 track, etc. Can I still use it and if I can, how do I edit this part?
    (You’re a gun by the way!)

    1. For the encoding, use HandBrake to encode to a M4V/MP4 File setting only 1 H.264 video track and only 1 AAC stereo/mono audio track…

       http://handbrake.fr/downloads.php

       Then mux the video to FLV and inject the metadata using the “MuxMP4_to_iFLV.bat” or “MuxMP4_to_iFLV.sh” script.

       http://rodrigopolo.com/support/topic/videos-only-play-after-loading#post-234

       1. That’s great, I can now encode the .flv to .mp4.
          Although, for some reason, I am making the video into 1 layers for video and stereo.
          Then I try to use the .bat from BinKit v2.0, although the black screen would appear and then disappear.

24. thanks for a great encoder.
    I encoded 240p.sh for video.
    do I use the same file for the hd and the iphone/ipad? or do I need to do a 2nd encoding for them at 240p-360p-iphone.sh

    muchos gracias

    1. Differente version for each version, if you want to know how and why in every aspect check this post:
       http://rodrigopolo.com/about/wp-stream-video/encoding-stream-video

25. When I paste the Mac Intel code into Terminal, it seems to be downloading but then i get the following…

    rm -rf ./binkit-v1.3
    rm binkit-v1.3.tar.gz[foa-wng:~] ianchamandy% tar xzf binkit-v1.3.tar.gz
    [foa-wng:~] ianchamandy% cd binkit-v1.3/
    [foa-wng:~/binkit-v1.3] ianchamandy% ./install.sh
    dir=/usr: Command not found.
    dir: Undefined variable.
    [foa-wng:~/binkit-v1.3] ianchamandy% cd ..
    [foa-wng:~] ianchamandy% rm -rf ./binkit-v1.3
    [foa-wng:~] ianchamandy% rm binkit-v1.3.tar.gz

    In the middle is the “command not found” and “undefined variable” stuff, which is way beyond my comprehension other than to know that it probably shouldn’t be there. I also don’t get a request for a password so the install isn’t working properly.

    Needless to say, Download Helper still doesn’t work. Why isn’t this script running properly for me?

    1. BinKit v1.3 requires to install FFmpeg in an specific locations on yous Unix/OSX System, places like
       /usr/bin
       /usr/share

       For security reasons Unix/OSX requires a password to write files on that locations, that password is your user password on your system.

       Thinking on that limitations I have updated and created a more easy way to encode video with BinKit 2.0
       There are links and videos on how to use it

26. Hi!

    It is not working on my iMac. I have Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 but it is not working. If I enter the first line the Mac receives a very long code. At the end I enter the second line but my mac can’t find the archive.

    Can you help me, please.

    Sorry for my bad emglish

    1. Do you followed the instructions shown on the videos on this page?

       1. No,but I’ll watch it now.

          1. Yes, thank you! It works!

27. Rodrigo,

    Thanks for your good work.

    I’m having trouble with pseudo-streaming. Like a couple of others above, when I drag my video file onto any of the BinKit files as described in your video tutorial, the CMD window pops up briefly then disappears.

    Then I downloaded Handbrake and using the default MP4 settings I encoded the video. Tried the drag & drop again, but got the same response from the BinKit files.

    Then I downloaded flvMeta program from the Google site you listed but I don’t know what to do from here.

    I am not a coder and have a limited understanding of anything “under the hood.”

    If you can help me figure this out, I would be forever grateful.

    Thanks,

    – Mark

    1. Hi, the “presets” (bat files) I made available with FFmpeg are designed to work with a video that has only 1 video track and only one mono or stereo audio track, if the video have more than one video track, more than one audio track or an audio track with more than 2 audio channels, the encoding will fail and the CMD windows will close immediately.

28. WOW!!!! Thanks, for BinKit 2.0. I have tried many encoders and this works the best for size and quality. With the new option to drag and drop a video on the BAT file it makes things so much easier.

29. is there anyway to implement this system into my webserver to work with your plug-in?

    so in example, i can click on upload and upload from the web to automatically encode in h264?

    1. I really love to have done something like that but saddly as it looks it is such a pain to do it.

30. thank you for this article. it really works!! i can now convert video straight from download helper add ons on firefox! thanks!!!

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