FFmpeg

This script is made to compile FFmpeg with common codecs on Mac OSX running on Apple Silicon. The script was orginally taken from https://gitlab.com/martinr92/ffmpeg and has been modifed to build the libraries with ARM64/NEON code were applicable.

The version of x265 also includes the Apple provided patch used by Handbreak, https://github.com/HandBrake/HandBrake/blob/master/contrib/x265/A01-darwin-neon-support-for-arm64.patch forward ported to apply to newer versions of x265 this is not in the main line code but runs significantly faster. It seems both this and x265's mianline NEON code break multilib linkage if thats importnat to you but a 12bit build seems to support 12bit, 10bit and 8bit encoding anyway. This version also cirrectly reports that ARM64 is 64 bit not 32 bit :-)

Result

This repository builds FFmpeg and FFprobe for Mac OSX using

• build tools
  • cmake
  • pkg-config
• video codecs
  • aom for AV1 de-/encoding
  • openh264 for H.264 de-/encoding
  • x264 for H.264 encoding
  • x265 for H.265/HEVC encoding
  • vpx for VP8/VP9 de-/encoding
• audio codecs
  • LAME for MP3 encoding
  • opus for Opus de-/encoding

To get a full list of all formats and codecs that are supported just execute

./ffmpeg -formats
./ffmpeg -codecs

Requirements

There are just a few dependencies to other tools. Most of the software is compiled or downloaded during script execution. Also most of the tools should be already available on the system by default.

Required

• c and c++ compiler like AppleClang (included in Xcode) or gcc (on Linux)
• curl for downloading files
• make

Optional

• nproc (on linux) or sysctl (on Mac OSX) for multicore compilation

Execution

To run this script simply execute the build.sh script.

./build.sh

Folder Structure

All files that are downloaded and generated through this script are placed in the current working directory. The recommendation is to use an empty folder for this.

mkdir ffmpeg-compile
cd ffmpeg-compile

Now execute the script using:

../path/to/repository/build.sh

After the execution a new folder called "out" exists. It contains the compiled FFmpeg binary (in the bin sub-folder). The ffmpeg-success.zip contains also all binary files of FFmpeg.

Build failed?

Check the detailed logfiles in the working directory. Each build step has its own file starting with "build-*".

If the build of ffmpeg failes during the configuration phase (e.g. because it doesn't find one codec) check also the log file in ffmpeg/ffmpeg-*/ffbuild/config.log.