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.
Install FFmpeg 3.1.3 “Laplace” On Ubuntu
FFmpeg 3.1.3 “Laplace” is the latest stable FFmpeg release from the 3.1 release branch, which was cut from master on 2016-06-26. Run the following commands in Terminal to install FFmpeg 3.1.3 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.
