# Compile FFmpeg for ffmpeg-api

This article is an FFmpeg compilation guide that is used as a reference when you want to run it in a non-container environment.

## Required packages
* X264-devel (yum), libx264-dev (apt): available in major Linux distributions
* [Fraunhofer FDK AAC](https://github.com/mstorsjo/fdk-aac) (No GPL, Need compile from the source code)

## Download FFmpeg source code
* https://ffmpeg.org/download.html
* Direct link: https://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-7.0.tar.xz

## Compile FFmpeg (Minimal options)

```bash
wget https://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-7.0.tar.xz
tar xvf ffmpeg-7.0.tar.xz
cd FFmpeg-7.0
mkdir build
cd build
../configure  --disable-static --enable-shared --enable-gpl --enable-libx264 --enable-nonfree
make
make install
#ln -s /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg /usr/bin/ffmpeg  # Or add to PATH variable
```

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