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FFMPEG installation can be tricky sometimes. Here I'm sharing, for self reference in future, a simple procedure to easily install ffmpeg and all related dependencies, libraries on any VPS running CentOS. Hopefully this will help a few clueless VPS admins. :P

Establish an SSH connection to the VPS as root in order to run these commands.

yum install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel


cd /etc/yum.repos.d
nano dag.repo

Paste this into dag.repo file and save

[dag]
name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1

Finally run:

yum install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel


rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

Again run: 

yum install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel