FFmpeg is a cross-platform solution for streaming audio and video as well as recording and conversion. It’s also useful to convert multimedia files between various formats. FFmpeg includes libavcodec audio/video codec library in it.
This article will describe you to how to install FFmpeg on Ubuntu, Debian and LinuxMint systems with easy steps.
Step 1 – Adding FFmpeg PPA
FFmpeg is also available under default repositories but an older version. To install the updated version, first of all, You need to add PPA to your system.
Ubuntu 18.04/16.04:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/ffmpeg-3
Ubuntu 14.04:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/tesseract
Step 2 – Install FFmpeg
After enabling the PPA, Lets exec below commands to install ffmpeg on your Ubuntu system.
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ffmpeg libav-tools x264 x265
Step 3 – Check FFmpeg Version
After successfully install FFmpeg, let’s check the version installed on the system.
ffmpeg -version ffmpeg version 3.4.2-1~16.04.york0.2 Copyright (c) 2000-2018 the FFmpeg developers built with gcc 5.4.0 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9) 20160609 [...]
Step 4 – FFmpeg Basic Commands
Here is the list of few ffmepg basic command options used with ffmpeg command line tool.
Click here to read more about ffmpeg on its official site.
Step 5 – Basic Examples
Below are some examples of uses of ffmpeg command line.
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
Even ppa:jonathonf/ffmpeg-4 doesn’t work on 18.04
This is broken now for ubuntu 18.04
E: Package ‘libav-tools’ has no installation candidate
If you don’t necessarily need ffmpeg, and aconv will do (e.g. for youtube-dl), you can install aconv on CentOS7 using http://thelinuxfaq.com/258-how-to-install-avconv-on-centos-rhel-7-6.
Hi ,
I have tried above steps successfully done everything , I am able to check FFMPEG verion and basic command as well but when I check when I am checking the extension ” extension_loaded(‘ffmpeg’) or die(‘Error in loading ffmpeg’);” — it throws error “Error in loading ffmpeg” .
Also I tried checking “phpinfo();” , but it does not shows that ffmpeg is installed. What else I need to do to configure FFMPEG in cent OS 6.5 , PHP 5.5 .
Question : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27226157/how-to-setup-ffmpeg-for-centos-release-6-5-server
Dear sysadmin
Thank you very much, i tried a lot of site to install the new ffmpeg those code were not working, maybe old or mine had problem.
but this code you posted i tried this and it worked the new ffmpeg install to my vps.
thanks for your help
I finally found a solution which allows to install ffmpeg in Centos 7:
1. wget ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/centos/6.5/os/x86_64/Packages/libdc1394-2.1.2-3.4.el6.x86_64.rpm
2. yum -y localinstall libdc1394-2.1.2-3.4.el6.x86_64.rpm
3. rpm -ivh http://dl.atrpms.net/el7-x86_64/atrpms/stable/atrpms-repo-7-7.el7.x86_64.rpm
4. yum -y install ffmpeg
I hope it will help somebody.
@sysadmin thank you. Now I am compiling all the things to install. Installing the 6.5 version is not affecting?