You can quickly install ffmpeg on CentOS or RHEL server via dag repository.
To proceed insert following lines to /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo
[dag]
name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
baseurl=https://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
Add
/usr/local/lib
to
/etc/ld.so.conf
Then run:
ldconfig -v
Then run the following to install rpmforge-release info:
rpm -Uvh https://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm
Finally update yum cache and install ffmpeg as follows:
yum update
yum install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel
Done!