Downloads & builds headless FFMPEG along with all dependencies in parallel, enabling all features

Headless FFMPEG Build Script (Debian)

#!/bin/bash -e

# Distro: Debian 13
# Derived from https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/Ubuntu

# Builds the dependencies in parallel prior to starting FFmpeg build.

apt-get update
apt-get --no-install-recommends --no-install-suggests -y install \
  autoconf automake nasm build-essential cmake unzip git-core ca-certificates \
  libass-dev libfreetype6-dev libgnutls28-dev libmp3lame-dev libtool \
  libopus-dev libdav1d-dev libvorbis-dev meson ninja-build \
  pkg-config texinfo wget yasm zlib1g-dev libtheora-dev

ROOT_DIR=$HOME/ffmpeg
SRC_DIR=$ROOT_DIR/sources
BUILD_DIR=$ROOT_DIR/build
BIN_DIR=$HOME/bin

rm -rf $ROOT_DIR
mkdir -p $SRC_DIR
mkdir -p $BUILD_DIR
mkdir -p $BIN_DIR

cd $SRC_DIR

libx264() {
  echo "STARTING ${FUNCNAME[0]}."
  cd $SRC_DIR
  git -C x264 pull 2> /dev/null || git clone --depth 1 https://code.videolan.org/videolan/x264.git && \
  cd x264 && \
  PATH="$BIN_DIR:$PATH" PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$BUILD_DIR/lib/pkgconfig" ./configure --prefix="$BUILD_DIR" --bindir="$BIN_DIR" --enable-static --enable-pic && \
  PATH="$BIN_DIR:$PATH" make && \
  make install
  echo "ENDING ${FUNCNAME[0]}."
}

libx265() {
  echo "STARTING ${FUNCNAME[0]}."
  cd $SRC_DIR
  wget -O- https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265_git/get/master.tar.bz2 | tar xjv
  cd multicoreware*/build/linux
  PATH="$BIN_DIR:$PATH" cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$BUILD_DIR" -DENABLE_SHARED=off ../../source
  PATH="$BIN_DIR:$PATH" make
  make install
  echo "ENDING ${FUNCNAME[0]}."
}

libfdk_aac() {
  echo "STARTING ${FUNCNAME[0]}."
  cd $SRC_DIR
  wget -O fdk-aac.zip https://github.com/mstorsjo/fdk-aac/zipball/master
  unzip fdk-aac.zip
  cd mstorsjo-fdk-aac*
  autoreconf -fiv
  ./configure --prefix="$BUILD_DIR" --disable-shared
  make
  make install
  echo "ENDING ${FUNCNAME[0]}."
}

libvpx() {
  echo "STARTING ${FUNCNAME[0]}."
  cd $SRC_DIR
  git -C libvpx pull 2> /dev/null || git clone --depth 1 https://chromium.googlesource.com/webm/libvpx.git
  cd libvpx
  PATH="$BIN_DIR:$PATH" ./configure --prefix="$BUILD_DIR" --disable-examples --disable-unit-tests --enable-vp9-highbitdepth --as=yasm
  PATH="$BIN_DIR:$PATH" make
  make install
  echo "ENDING ${FUNCNAME[0]}."
}

libaom() {
  echo "STARTING ${FUNCNAME[0]}."
  cd $SRC_DIR
  git -C aom pull 2> /dev/null || git clone --depth 1 https://aomedia.googlesource.com/aom
  mkdir -p aom_build
  cd aom_build
  PATH="$BIN_DIR:$PATH" cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$BUILD_DIR" -DENABLE_TESTS=OFF -DENABLE_NASM=on ../aom
  PATH="$BIN_DIR:$PATH" make
  make install
  echo "ENDING ${FUNCNAME[0]}."
}

libsvtav1() {
  echo "STARTING ${FUNCNAME[0]}."
  cd $SRC_DIR
  git -C SVT-AV1 pull 2> /dev/null || git clone https://gitlab.com/AOMediaCodec/SVT-AV1.git
  mkdir -p SVT-AV1/build
  cd SVT-AV1/build
  PATH="$BIN_DIR:$PATH" cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$BUILD_DIR" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_DEC=OFF -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF ..
  PATH="$BIN_DIR:$PATH" make
  make install
  echo "ENDING ${FUNCNAME[0]}."
}

libvmaf() {
  echo "STARTING ${FUNCNAME[0]}."
  cd $SRC_DIR
  git clone 'https://github.com/Netflix/vmaf' 'vmaf-master'
  mkdir -p 'vmaf-master/libvmaf/build'
  cd 'vmaf-master/libvmaf/build'
  meson setup -Denable_tests=false -Denable_docs=false --buildtype=release --default-library=static '../' --prefix "$BUILD_DIR" --bindir="$BIN_DIR" --libdir="$BUILD_DIR/lib"
  ninja
  ninja install
  echo "ENDING ${FUNCNAME[0]}."
}

ffmpeg_download() {
  echo "STARTING ${FUNCNAME[0]}."
  cd $SRC_DIR
  wget -O- http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-snapshot.tar.bz2 | tar xjv
  echo "ENDING ${FUNCNAME[0]}."
}


# Build all components in parallel
libx264
libx265
libvpx
libfdk_aac
libaom
libsvtav1
libvmaf
ffmpeg_download

# ffmpeg
echo "STARTING ffmpeg."
cd $SRC_DIR/ffmpeg
PATH="$BIN_DIR:$PATH" PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$BUILD_DIR/lib/pkgconfig" ./configure \
    --prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg/build" \
    --pkg-config-flags="--static" \
    --extra-cflags="-I$BUILD_DIR/include" \
    --extra-ldflags="-L$BUILD_DIR/lib" \
	--extra-libs="-lpthread" \
	--ld="g++" \
    --bindir="$BIN_DIR" \
    --enable-gpl \
    --enable-gnutls \
    --enable-libaom \
    --enable-libass \
    --enable-libfdk-aac \
    --enable-libfreetype \
    --enable-libmp3lame \
    --enable-libopus \
    --enable-libsvtav1 \
    --enable-libdav1d \
    --enable-libvorbis \
    --enable-libvpx \
    --enable-libx264 \
    --enable-libx265 \
    --enable-libvmaf \
    --enable-nonfree
PATH="$BIN_DIR:$PATH" make
make install
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Latest update catches up with various changes to dependency build procedures over past few years. Introduces some debug logging. Removes sudo usages since assumption is we'll be within context of a container when running this build process.