I’ve noticed I had a post telling others to just use apt-get or yum to install ffmpeg on servers. Using apt-get or yum is fine if your only using ffmpeg on a stand alone machine, or workstation. Or if your just trying to make sure all dependencies are there before compiling.

but you should know that the apt-get / yum versions of ffmpeg aren’t compiled with shared libraries (let me know if this changes). this is important if you plan on using any tool that depends on ffpmeg’s libraries, like ffmpeg-php, as they need access to those libraries. If your installing ffmpeg on a server, I recommend always compiling the final version with shared libraries. that way if in the future you need to use something that depends on it’s libraries, you’ll be ok.