[FFmpeg-user] ffmpeg configuration issue on Mac OSX

David Favor david at davidfavor.com
Mon Sep 22 17:46:49 CEST 2014


Shiva Krishna Kanike wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to use ffmpeg to compress my videos on iPhone programmatically, I found a link to configure ffmpeg on your site, "https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/MacOSX".
> But I am facing issue while configuring ffmpeg on my Mac, any help is greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
> When I run below command on my Mac's Terminal, it always throws error. I tired lot of ways to fix it, but I failed each time.
> 
> "./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree --enable-libass --enable-libfdk-aac --enable-libfreetype --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid"
> 
> 
> When I run "brew install ffmpeg" command on my Mac's Terminal, it says "Warning: ffmpeg-2.3.3 already installed, it's just not linked".
> 
> Please find the "config.log" file for your reference.

Mac ffmpeg from http://MacPorts.org just works.

Great effort keeping ffmpeg + fdk up to date for easiest installs.

You might try MacPorts + see if this resolves your problem.

Be sure to remove all traces of brew first.


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