Setup guide

Environment

The environment requirements to correctly install and deploy liveMediaStreamer.

• Ubuntu 14.04 x64
• g++4.8 compiler
• It is highly recommended to uninstall apt versions of:
  • Libav libraries (libavutil, libavformat, libavcodec, libavfilter, libavdevice, libswscale, libavresample)
  • OpenCV (libopencv-dev)
  • LiveMedia (liblivemedia-dev)
  • x264 (libx264-dev)

NOTE: default (and recommended) installation path is /usr/local/

Third-party libraries

FFMPEG

Basic dependencies

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install git cmake autoconf automake build-essential libass-dev libgpac-dev \
libsdl1.2-dev libtheora-dev libtool libva-dev libvdpau-dev libvorbis-dev libx11-dev \
libxext-dev libxfixes-dev pkg-config texi2html zlib1g-dev libcppunit-dev

Yasm

wget http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/releases/yasm-1.3.0.tar.gz
tar xzvf yasm-1.3.0.tar.gz
cd yasm-1.3.0
./configure
make
sudo make install

x264

git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264.git
cd x264
./configure --enable-shared
make
sudo make install

libmp3lame

sudo apt-get install libmp3lame-dev

libopus

sudo apt-get install libopus-dev

libvpx

sudo apt-get install libvpx-dev

FFMPEG

wget http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-2.5.4.tar.bz2
tar xjvf ffmpeg-2.5.4.tar.bz2
cd ffmpeg-2.5.4
./configure --extra-libs="-ldl" --enable-gpl --enable-libass --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis \
--enable-libx264 --enable-nonfree --enable-shared --enable-libopus --enable-libmp3lame \
--enable-libvpx
make
sudo make install

OpenCV

wget https://github.com/Itseez/opencv/archive/3.0.0-beta.zip
unzip 3.0.0-beta.zip
cd opencv-3.0.0-beta
cmake .
make
sudo make install

Live555

wget http://www.live555.com/liveMedia/public/live555-latest.tar.gz
tar xaf live555-latest.tar.gz
cd live
./genMakefiles linux-with-shared-libraries 
make
sudo make install

Log4cplus

sudo apt-get install liblog4cplus-dev

Live Media Streamer

liveMediaStreamer

git clone https://github.com/ua-i2cat/livemediastreamer.git
cd livemediastreamer
./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install

You can now follow up with the Deployment-guide