We follow the official recommendation by CentOS "How to setup multimedia on CentOS 7" and install the "nux-dextop" repository that offers all codecs and FFmpeg compiled with all requirements.
Article "How to setup multimedia on CentOS 7
yum -y install http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el7/x86_64/nux-dextop-release-0-5.el7.nux.noarch.rpm
If not already done with the webserver installation the well known EPEL Repository will be installed for dependency reasons. Please confirm the questions with "y".
yum install ffmpeg perl-Image-ExifTool
That´s it.
Pathes:
ffmpeg | /usr/bin/ffmpeg |
ffprobe | /usr/bin/ffprobe |
exiftool | /usr/bin/exiftool |