FFmpeg 3.0.1 “Einstein” released for Linux Ubuntu. Install FFmpeg 3.0.1 on Ubuntu, via PPA. Terminal commands to install FFmpeg 3 on Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and Linux Mint Systems.
FFmpeg multimedia framework lets you convert audio and video files on Linux Ubuntu Systems. FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. Using FFmpeg multimedia framework, users can easily encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play audio and video files. FFmpeg comes with various ffmpeg tool for converting multimedia files.
FFmpeg contains libavcodec, libavutil, libavformat, libavfilter, libavdevice, libswscale and libswresample which can be used by applications. As well as ffmpeg, ffserver, ffplay and ffprobe which can be used by end users for transcoding, streaming and playing.
The latest version available is FFmpeg 3.0 “Einstein”, which brings updates:
- The native FFmpeg AAC encoder has seen extensive improvements and is no longer considered experimental
- Removed support for libvo-aacenc and libaacplus
- Over 30 new filters have been added
- Many ASM optimizations
- VP9 Hardware Acceleration (DXVA2 and VA-API)
- Cineform HD decoder
- New DCA decoder based on libdcadec with full support for DTS-HD extensions
- As with all major releases expect major backward incompatible API/ABI changes
Install FFmpeg 3.0 On Ubuntu
Run the following commands in Terminal to install FFmpeg 3.0 on Ubuntu Systems:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:djcj/hybrid
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
Once installed use the FFmpeg to convert audio and video files on Linux Ubuntu Systems.
Usage
usage: ffmpeg [options] [[infile options] -i infile]… {[outfile options] outfile}…
Getting help:
-h — print basic options
-h long — print more options
-h full — print all options (including all format and codec specific options, very long)
-h type=name — print all options for the named decoder/encoder/demuxer muxer/filter
See man ffmpeg for detailed description of the options.
