Installing ffmpeg with libx264 (h264) on MAC OS X

12 May 2016

Install libx264:

Get the libx264 package from videolan x264

$ tar -xjvf last_x264.tar.bz2
$ cd last_x264
$ ./configure --enable-shared
$ make
$ sudo make install

Install ffmpeg:

From ffmpeg find the latest stable release

$ tar xvfj ffmpeg-3.0.2.tar.bz2
$ cd ffmpeg-3.0.2
$ ./configure --enable-libx264 --enable-gpl --enable-shared
$ make
$ sudo make install