The input file format and the output format are placed from the file extension. When converting audio and video files with FFmpeg, you don't have to specify the input and output formats. You can check installed version with the same command that we use with version 3.X: With this, you will have version 4.X installed on the system and ready to be used. Once you have added the PPA to your system, you can install the necessary package typing: Sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/ffmpeg-4 In it we are going to write the following to add the necessary PPA: We start by opening a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T). The steps below describe how to install FFmpeg 4.x on Ubuntu 18.04. This version is available in Jonathon F's PPA. Version 4.X of this software suite adds a host of new filters, encoders, and decoders. If we prefer install a newer versionWith the following instructions we will be able to install FFmpeg version 4.x in Ubuntu 18.04. With all of the above, we will have installed and verified the installation of FFmpeg 3.X on our Ubuntu system. To consult all encoders and decoders available, we can write: ffmpeg -encoders ffmpeg -decoders This will print something like the following: Then we can install FFmpeg typing the following command:Īfter the installation, to validate that the package is installed correctly, we can use following command. In it we will write the following to update the list of available packages: We will start by opening a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T). If you are interested in having this version, you just have to follow the following steps to install it in Ubuntu 18.04.
However, the version included in the repositories may not be the latest version available.Īs I write these lines, the current stable version available in the Ubuntu 18.04 repositories is 3.4.4. This is the fastest and easiest way to install FFmpeg on Ubuntu. In Ubuntu official repositories we can find FFmpeg, and we can install easily with apt package manager.
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