Local build of ffmpeg

This was going to be a highminded post about fairy tales and morphology but instead i am going to record my trials and trivails of running ffmpeg on amazon's map-reduce.

So - what i am doing is adding a cached directory of ffmpeg to every map-reduce computer i use


#!/usr/bin/bash
./elastic-mapreduce --create --stream --alive --name $1 \
-c credentials.json \
--input s3n://13bit.videoout \
--mapper s3://13bit.scripts/compression.py \
--reduce s3://13bit.scripts/reduce.py \
--output s3n://13bit.videoout.ts \
--log-uri s3n://13bit.log \
--cache-archive s3n://13bit.scripts/ffmpeg.zip#ffmpeg

in order to build ffmpeg i started up a debian sqeeze box via aleatic ami (ami-daf615b3) http://alestic.com/. I then had to update apt-get (apt-get update), install git, download ffmpeg and related libraries and run the ffmpeg configure switch --prefix to set the install directory. I am now zipping it up and testing it on another instance of the squeeze debian - at which point i will start up the map reduce process again

i am also looking at boston terrier art on etsy (thanks to Jane Kim)
http://www.etsy.com/listing/37552859/boston-terrier-dog-art-original-painting
I am doing this while my boston terrier sleeps and farts next to me.