Install ffmpeg/ffprobe on localhost for laravel 4 package?

Question

How can I install ffmpeg and ffprobe on my localhost, so that I can use sonus ffmpeg laravel-4 package? https://github.com/rafasamp/sonus

Can I just get it directly from git?

git clone git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git ffmpeg

Answer 1

Doing git clone would get the FFmpeg Source Code, you need to compile it to have a local version running in localhost. Easiest way is to get one of the precompiled version for your Operating System at FFmpeg download section and then configure the fully qualified system path in sonus config.php:

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| ffmpeg System Path
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| We need to know the fully qualified system path to where ffmpeg
| lives on this server. If you paste this path into your shell or
| command prompt you should get output from ffmpeg.
|
| Examples:
| Windows: 'C:/ffmpeg/bin/ffmpeg.exe'
| Mac OSX: '/Applications/MAMP/ffmpeg/ffmpeg'
| Linux: '/usr/bin/ffmpeg'
|
*/

'ffmpeg'    => '/usr/bin/ffmpeg', //for GNU/Linux