This entry was posted in commandline, guide, linux, raspberry pi, raspbian on by Hannes. Installing ffmpeg on a Raspberry Pi is not as simple as downloading an executable from the command line, but it is also not too difficult.

In case you are wondering v4l2 should work with this.

Not hours or days like some old internet sources on old Raspis say. It takes just 25 minutes on a Raspberry Pi 3. Hopefully someone, somewhere will provide a repository for this kind of stuff some day. configure -arch=armel -target-os=linux -enable-gpl -enable-libx264 -enable-nonfree configure -host=arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi -enable-static -disable-opencl configure -arch=armel -target-os=linux -enable-gpl -enable-libx264 -enable-nonfree make -j4 sudo make install configure -host=arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi -enable-static -disable-opencl make -j 4 sudo make install # build and make ffmpeg git clone -depth= 1 git: // /ffmpeg.git # build and install x264 git clone -depth 1 git: // /x264 The following tutorial will show you how to install FFmpeg onto the Raspberry Pi and stream video to the local web which can be access through computer/phone/tablet.

Install ffmpeg raspberry pi 4