Bootstrap knowledge of LLMs ASAP. With a bias/focus to GPT.
Avoid being a link dump. Try to provide only valuable well tuned information.
Neural network links before starting with transformers.
These steps walk through installing a static binary of any ffmpeg version on to your linux machine. If you want to compile from source, there are several ways to do so. Here's the official guide. Tested and works on an AWS EC2 Ubuntu instance, but should work on any Linux machine.