FFmpeg 2.8.6 “Feynman” has been released. Install latest FFmpeg on Ubuntu, via PPA. Terminal commands to install FFmpeg 2.8.6 on 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.
FFmpeg 2.8.6 “Feynman” is the latest version available of the FFmpeg multimedia framework. FFmpeg 2.8.6 “Feynman” can be installed on Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and Linux Mint Systems. Run the following commands to install FFmpeg 2.8.6 on Linux 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. \
FFmpeg is a command line tool for converting audio and video files. The FFmpeg tool is very fast video and audio converter that can also grab from a live audio/video source. It can also convert between arbitrary sample rates and resize video on the fly with a high quality polyphase filter.
To convert a file, simply run the command in the following format:
$ ffmpeg -i input.mp4 output.avi
If you want to remove and uninstall the FFmpeg from Linux Systems, run the command given below:
$ sudo apt-get remove ffmpeg