How to install FFmpeg 3.3 in Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 16.04 and other Ubuntu Derivatives via PPA in Ubuntu. FFmpeg 3.3 “Hilbert”, a new major release, is now available! Some of the highlights:
- Apple Pixlet decoder
- NewTek SpeedHQ decoder
- QDMC audio decoder
- PSD (Photoshop Document) decoder
- FM Screen Capture decoder
- ScreenPressor decoder
- XPM decoder
- DNxHR decoder fixes for HQX and high resolution videos
- ClearVideo decoder (partial)
- 16.8 and 24.0 floating point PCM decoder
- Intel QSV-accelerated VP8 video decoding
- native Opus encoder
- DNxHR 444 and HQX encoding
- Quality improvements for the (M)JPEG encoder
- VAAPI-accelerated MPEG-2 and VP8 encoding
- premultiply video filter
- abitscope multimedia filter
- readeia608 filter
- threshold filter
- midequalizer filter
- MPEG-7 Video Signature filter
- add internal ebur128 library, remove external libebur128 dependency
- Intel QSV video scaling and deinterlacing filters
- Sample Dump eXchange demuxer
- MIDI Sample Dump Standard demuxer
- Scenarist Closed Captions demuxer and muxer
- Support MOV with multiple sample description tables
- Pro-MPEG CoP #3-R2 FEC protocol
- Support for spherical videos
- CrystalHD decoder moved to new decode API
- configure now fails if autodetect-libraries are requested but not found
For Ubuntu 15.04 and Above
Run the following commands in Terminal to install FFmpeg 3.3 via PPA in Ubuntu:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/ffmpeg-3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt upgrade
For Ubuntu 14.04
Run the following commands in Terminal to install FFmpeg 3.3 via PPA in Ubuntu 14.04:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/tesseract
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt upgrade