Install FFmpeg on CentOS using yum

Install epel repository using

yum install epel-release -y

Method 1

Install rpmfusion for your distro

https://rpmfusion.org/Configuration

For CentOS 8

rpm -ivh https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/el/rpmfusion-free-release-8.noarch.rpm

For CentOS 7

rpm -ivh https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/rpmfusion-free-release-7.noarch.rpm

Install ffmpeg with

yum install ffmpeg

2023-02-20 On CentOS 7, repo provided ffmpeg version 3.4.12. scrpms repo had a newer version.

Method 2

Install scrpms repo

On CentOS 7

wget http://scrpms.net/pub/RPMS/el7/x86_64/scrpms-repo-22-3.el7.x86_64.rpm
rpm -ivh scrpms-repo-22-3.el7.x86_64.rpm

Install ffmpeg with

yum install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel

NOTE:

2019-12-11 i tested it on CentOS 7. ffmpeg worked. Version is 4.2.1. mplayer/mencoder install failed with dependency error.

2023-02-20 CentOS 7 ffmpeg version 5.1.2

Method 3

http://li.nux.ro/repos.html

On CentOS 7

rpm -Uvh http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el7/x86_64/nux-dextop-release-0-5.el7.nux.noarch.rpm

Install ffmpeg with

yum install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel

NOTE: On 2019-12-11 i tested it on CentOS 7. ffmpeg and mencoder install worked. But version is very old. ffmpeg version 2.8.15. MPlayer SVN-r37391-4.8.3

See ffmpeg