Installing on Mac OSX

Unfortunately Mac Port doesn't cover this one so I followed the instructions I found here: http://www.dorianmoore.com/works/2352

Installing on Linux

yum install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel

I mostly followed the instructions posted here: http://www.mysql-apache-php.com/ffmpeg-install.htm

However the info for the dag repository was not working for me. If you get package not found, then you will need to add few lines in the yum repository for dag packages installation. Create a file named dag.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d with the following contents on it first.

[dag]
name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
#baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
baseurl=http://dag.linux.iastate.edu/dag/redhat/el5/en/$basearch/dag
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
enabled=1

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