

I'm really starting to appreciate jails because, when I screwed things up (many times), I just deleted the jail and started over. I've written it assuming knowledge of basic FreeNAS tasks like accessing by SSH, but for someone who has never used a jail.

It took three days to figure it out as there were a lot of hurdles to overcome (and some peculiarities of FreeBSD), so I thought I would share the process for the one or two other people in the world who want to do this ). I wanted to install a custom build of ffmpeg on my FreeNAS to do long transcoding tasks and not tie up my laptop for days at a time. ** Updated 2020 May with FreeNAS 11.3 and latest libraries **
