Static FFmpeg Build

sffmpeg is a simple cmake-based full-featured FFmpeg build helper.

It currently works on Linux and other POSIX systems (with a few tweaks). It has been tested the most heavily on Linux/x86_64 (Ubuntu 18.04). The helper will grab the latest versions of most FFmpeg dependencies, providing a way to effectively build, test and compare multiple builds of FFmpeg on the same host.

This version is tweaked for the Odroid XU4 MFC encoder

Requirements

sffmpeg requires:

• a POSIX-compliant system (virtually any system today).
• a recent version of gcc.
• a recent version of cmake (3.6+).
• the autoconf and libtool utilities (automake-1.15 as of now)
• the pkg-config utility.
• xutils-dev

Usage

Just type the following commands at the shell prompt:

$ git clone https://github.com/pyke369/sffmpeg
$ cd sffmpeg
$ export CFLAGS="-march=armv7-a -mtune=cortex-a15.cortex-a7 -mfpu=neon-vfpv4 -mfloat-abi=hard -ftree-vectorize -mvectorize-with-neon-quad -ffast-math" && export CPPFLAGS=$CFLAGS && export CXXFLAGS=$CFLAGS && export CXX_FLAGS=$CFLAGS
$ make

Then go grab a coffee (or maybe ten). The helper will compile all FFmpeg dependencies for you. Once done, you should get an FFmpeg binary in the build/bin directory (with all dependencies statically linked-in).

$ build/bin/ffmpeg
ffmpeg version 4.2.3 Copyright (c) 2000-2020 the FFmpeg developers
  libavutil      56. 31.100 / 56. 31.100
  libavcodec     58. 54.100 / 58. 54.100
  libavformat    58. 29.100 / 58. 29.100
  libavdevice    58.  8.100 / 58.  8.100
  libavfilter     7. 57.100 /  7. 57.100
  libswscale      5.  5.100 /  5.  5.100
  libswresample   3.  5.100 /  3.  5.100
  libpostproc    55.  5.100 / 55.  5.100
Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder
usage: ffmpeg [options] [[infile options] -i infile]... {[outfile options] outfile}...

From there, you may use the binary immediately or build a Debian package for later deployment (see below).

Packaging

(requires devscripts package)

You may optionally build a Debian package by typing the following command at the shell prompt:

$ make deb

The ffmpeg, ffprobe and frmxtract binaries will be installed by the package in the /opt/ffmpeg-xu4/bin directory.

$ sudo dpkg -i ../ffmpeg-xu4_4.2.3_armhf.deb
Selecting previously unselected package sffmpeg.
Unpacking ffmpeg-xu4 (4.2.3) ...
Setting up ffmpeg-xu4 (4.2.3) ...