How to Install FFmpeg on Ubuntu, Debian & LinuxMint

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.

This article will describe you to how to install FFmpeg on Ubuntu, Debian and LinuxMint systems with easy steps.

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.

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kirillshkrogalev/ffmpeg-next $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install ffmpeg 

2. Check FFmpeg Version

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

# ffmpeg -version  ffmpeg version 2.4.3-1ubuntu1~trusty6 Copyright (c) 2000-2014 the FFmpeg developers [...] 

3. FFmpeg Basic Commands

Here is the list of few ffmepg basic command options used with ffmpeg command line tool.

 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

Below is 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 

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