Easy OS X Ffmpeg

1. You'll need XCode in your life (for many other things like gcc for other programs), go to the App Store and install it. Make sure you find the installer after it downloads and load it up.
2. Now if you don't have Homebrew you should, I'm even surprised I'm bothering to tell you how but here it is, in the terminal:

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/gist/323731)"

3. Install ffmpeg:

brew install ffmpeg

This will put ffmpeg in usr/local/Cellar which is where homebrew puts everything but it also creates a symlink to /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg so it's in your path and you have no additional work! That's as easy as ffmpeg gets.
4. Want to add the ability to encode ogg and ogv files? We'll need ffmpeg2theora... here's an OS X installer, just install like you would any common os x app it puts it in /usr/local/bin as well.
5. Ffmpeg has been coming with less and less stuff these days that you have to find on your own - take this zip file, unzip it and put the contents into /usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/0.8.4/share/ffmpeg or whatever ffmpeg you might get vs. 0.8.4 if this article gets a little dated.
6. Test in the command line by firing off ffmpeg and ffmpeg2theora... if it gives you stuff that looks like man pages you're good 2 go.