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    How to Install FFmpeg on CentOS/RHEL 7/6

    By RahulOctober 18, 20182 Mins Read

    FFmpeg is a cross-platform solution for streaming audio and video as well as recording and conversion. Its also useful to convert multimedia files between various formats. FFmpeg includes libavcodec audio/video codec library in it.

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    Install FFmpeg

    This article will describe you to how to install FFmpeg on CentOS , RHEL 7/6/5 and Fedora systems with easy steps. Also provides basic uses of ffmpeg. CentOS/RHEL uses must have enable atrpms rpm repository on his systems.

    1. Install FFmpeg

    CentOS/RHEL and Fedora users make sure that you have enabled atrpms repository in system. Let’s begin installing FFmpeg as per your operating system.

    # yum install ffmpeg
    

    2. Check FFmpeg Version

    After successfully install FFmpeg, let’s check the version installed on system.

    # ffmpeg -version
    
    ffmpeg version 2.0.2
    built on Oct 27 2013 11:21:04 with gcc 4.4.6 (GCC) 20120305 (Red Hat 4.4.6-4)
    ....
    

    3. FFmpeg Basic Commands

    Here is the list of few ffmepg basic commands list.

      ffmpeg -version: show version ffmpeg -formats: show available formats ffmpeg -codecs: show available codecs ffmpeg -decoders: show available decoders ffmpeg -encoders: show available encoders ffmpeg -bsfs: show available bit stream filters ffmpeg -protocols: show available protocols ffmpeg -filters: show available filters ffmpeg -pix_fmts: show available pixel formats ffmpeg -layouts: show standard channel layouts ffmpeg -sample_fmts: show available audio sample formats

    Click here to read more about ffmpeg on its official site.

    4. Basic Examples

    Here are some basic examples of uses of ffmpeg command line. Please suggest more examples to add here.

    Reduce .mov File Size:

    $ ffmpeg -i in.mov -c:v libx264 -c:a copy -crf 20 out.mov
    

    Convert .move To .mp4

    ffmpeg -i in.mov -vcodec copy -acodec aac -strict experimental -ab 128k out.mp4
    

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    1. balakrishna on April 16, 2018 9:44 am

      sudo rpm –import http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/RPM-GPG-KEY-nux.ro

      sudo rpm -Uvh http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el7/x86_64/nux-dextop-release-0-5.el7.nux.noarch.rpm

      sudo yum install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel -y

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