How To Install Xuggler on Linux

This set of tutorials shows how to install the latest Xuggler library on a Linux machine.

Part 1: Downloading and Building

In this tutorial we show how to find the latest version of Xuggler and install it on your favorite Linux machine.

Part 2: Installing and Verifying

After you’ve installed Xuggler on your machine and rebooted, it’d be nice to test that everything is working. This tutorial shows you how to do that.

Part 3: For those who don’t like Videos

Here are the steps in text for those who don’t like video:

Uninstall old versions of Xuggler first if you’ve already installed it. Do this by running ant uninstall in the directory you originally installed from.
Download the latest Xuggler .tar.gz file for Linux from here
Untar the download by running tar -xzvf xuggler-version.tar.gz

Set the environment variables XUGGLE_HOME to where you want xuggle installed:

export XUGGLE_HOME=/usr/local
export PATH=$XUGGLE_HOME/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$XUGGLE_HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

cd to xuggle-version and run ant run-tests. This can take anywhere from 10 minutes to over an hour depending on your machine.
Once the build has finished, run sudo ant install
Then to verify the build, try the following command (all one one line). You should be able to pass in any media file you like to test; for the example we’re asking for meta-information about the file test/fixtures/testfile.flv
```
java -cp $XUGGLE_HOME/share/java/jars/xuggle-xuggler.jar
   com.xuggle.xuggler.demos.GetContainerInfo test/fixtures/testfile.flv
```
Congratulations you should see meta information (for example number and type of streams in the container) printed to your console

Part 4: Where to find the demo source

You can find the documentation for the com.xuggle.xuggler.demos.GetContainerInfo application here, and you can get the actual source code here

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