Im with dreamhost and let me tell ya, pay for someone to do it and save yourself days of banging your head on a keyboard lol

They will allow you to do it, but they do not offer support for it.
There are some guides in dreamhosts wiki and around on the net which I attempted to follow but with no luck.
Kept getting errors when I reached the stage of installing ffmpeg-php it was complaing it could not find the ffmpeg headers and to check that I'd set it to shared, which I had.

Theres a guy on the net that will install it all for $40 on your dreamhost account, but be warned, it requires PHP installing, Ruby etc and I didn't see them mentioned in the guys list.

This is the guide to doing it urself:
http://www.netbrix.net/archives/20

This is the same guy who will do it for you for $40:
http://www.netbrix.net/archives/39

Here are one or two other guides you will need to research:

http://wiki.dreamhost.com/FFmpeg
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Ruby
http://www.catmindeye.com/media/2006/07 ... mhost.html
http://vexxhost.com/blog/2007/03/03/ins ... -easy-way/


You will also need to research installng Autoconf and M4

Hope this helps!

Regards,

Mike