# Operating systems supported by ffmpeg

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/operating-systems-supported-by-ffmpeg/140257>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 12, 2008, 10:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/operating-systems-supported-by-ffmpeg/140257 "2008-06-12T10:54:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![sneha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ecc23a/32.png) [@sneha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sneha)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 10:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/operating-systems-supported-by-ffmpeg/140257/1 "2008-06-12T10:54:20Z")

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Hi all,  
My project needs the audio format conversions.  
For the purpose i am using ffmpeg.exe and faad.exe.  
I am working on Windows XP, but my client’s opeating system is Open  
Solaris.  
I just needed to know whether this ffmpeg.exe and faad.exe would work  
fine on Open Solaris also along with thier system commands.

I am working with ruby on rails 2.0.2…

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**Author:** ![sneha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ecc23a/32.png) [@sneha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sneha)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 11:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/operating-systems-supported-by-ffmpeg/140257/2 "2008-06-12T11:25:03Z")

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On 12 Jun 2008, at 09:50, sneha wrote:

> Hi all,  
> My project needs the audio format conversions.  
> For the purpose i am using ffmpeg.exe and faad.exe.  
> Wouldn’t this be a more appropriate question for ffmpeg’s mailing lists?

Fred

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**Author:** ![sneha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ecc23a/32.png) [@sneha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sneha)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 6:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/operating-systems-supported-by-ffmpeg/140257/3 "2008-06-13T06:54:01Z")

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You cannot use “windows” exe on any unix or linux system.  
But ffmpeg is open source, so its easy enough to build configure and  
install it on open solaris.  
You may even be able to “find” a prebuilt image for it as well.’

Personally prefer linux on x86 myself.

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**Author:** ![sneha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ecc23a/32.png) [@sneha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sneha)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 1:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/operating-systems-supported-by-ffmpeg/140257/4 "2008-06-13T13:04:57Z")

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sneha wrote:

> I just needed to know whether this ffmpeg.exe and faad.exe would work  
> fine on Open Solaris also along with thier system commands.

Short answer: ffmpeg is available as a package for Solaris.

Long answer:

You can install ffmpeg on Solaris from Blastwave packages, but it’s  
horribly outdated. The next alternative is to recompile from source, but  
from experience I can tell you that this is going to be a royal pain  
because of ABI differences in gcc and the Sun compiler (used by  
Blastwave). You’ll need to recompile all ffmpeg dependencies from source  
too.

–  
Roderick van Domburg

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