FFMPEG is a very useful tool for fast video audio converter and  its produce high quality videos.  It can also convert between different types format and resize video with high quality polyphase filter.

Install FFMPEG package in centos / RHEL :

Download the ffmpeg packages using wget command and extract tar file.

# wget http://www.ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-2.2.1.tar.gz

# tar -xf ffmpeg-2.2.1.tar.gz

# cd ffmpeg-2.2.1

# mkdir tmp

# export TMPDIR=/usr/local/ffmpeg/tmp

# mv ffmpeg-2.2.1 /usr/local/ffmpeg

# ./configure
yasm/nasm not found or too old. Use --disable-yasm for a crippled build.

You may get an error while configuring packages like "--disable-yasm", yasm  package does not installed in your server, so want to install using yum command.
 
#  yum install yasm


---> Package yasm.x86_64 0:1.1.0-1.el6.rf will be installed

--> Finished Dependency Resolution

.....

Dependencies Resolved

===========================================================

 Package        Arch          Version       Repository            Size

===========================================================

Installing:

 yasm            i386          0.7.1-1.el5       epel                   253 k



Transaction Summary

===========================================================

...

Now, try to install again,
 
#  ./configure


install prefix            /usr/local

source path               .

C compiler                gcc

C library                 glibc

ARCH                      x86 (generic)

big-endian                no

runtime cpu detection     yes

.........
# make && make install

FFMPEG installed location is,
 
# whereis ffmpeg

/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg /usr/local/ffmpeg

Do you need to create soft link just execute the below command,
 
#  ln -s /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg /usr/bin/ffmpeg

Ubuntu and Debian :
 
#sudo apt-get update

# sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

To find out FFMPEG version:
 
# ffmpeg -version


ffmpeg version 2.2.1

built on Feb  5 2015 15:47:25 with gcc 4.4.7 (GCC) 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-11)

configuration:

libavutil      52. 66.100 / 52. 66.100

libavcodec     55. 52.102 / 55. 52.102

libavformat    55. 33.100 / 55. 33.100

libavdevice    55. 10.100 / 55. 10.100

libavfilter     4.  2.100 /  4.  2.100

libswscale      2.  5.102 /  2.  5.102

libswresample   0. 18.100 /  0. 18.100


Error:

If you may get an error while configuring package in server, create tmp directory and set path TMPDIR.
 
# ./configure


Unable to create and execute files in /var/tmp.  Set the TMPDIR environment

variable to another directory and make sure that it is not mounted noexec.

Sanity test failed.



If you think configure made a mistake, make sure you are using the latest

version from Git.  If the latest version fails, report the problem to the

ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org mailing list or IRC #ffmpeg on irc.freenode.net.

Include the log file "config.log" produced by configure as this will help

solving the problem.

Solution:
 
# mkdir /usr/local/ffmpeg/tmp

# export TMPDIR=/usr/local/ffmpeg/tmp

# ./configure