Installing An Uncrippled Ffmpeg On Ubuntu

27 Nov 2006 •

I’m trying this right now on Edgy Eft:

It seems one can set DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=risky to enable the missing codecs rather than editing debian/rules and building the package manually.
sudo apt-get build-dep ffmpeg
sudo apt-get install liblame-dev libfaad2-dev libfaac-dev libxvidcore4-dev checkinstall fakeroot
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=risky fakeroot apt-get source ffmpeg --compile
sudo dpkg -i ffmpeg-blah.dpkg