Record and convert audio and video on Linux Ubuntu Systems. How to install FFmpeg from PPA or Source. Terminal Apt-Get commands to install FFmpeg 2.8.5 on Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and Derivatives. FFmpeg is a multimedia framework for Linux Ubuntu. It includes libavcodec – the leading audio/video codec library.
Install FFmpeg 2.8.5 on Ubuntu
FFmpeg 2.8.5 is the latest version available. 2.8.5 was released on 2016-01-15. It is the latest stable FFmpeg release from the 2.8 release branch, which was cut from master on 2015-09-05. Amongst lots of other changes, it includes all changes from ffmpeg-mt, libav master of 2015-08-28, libav 11 as of 2015-08-28.
FFmpeg 2.8.5 “Feynman” can be installed via PPA on Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Linux Mint and other Ubuntu derivatives.
Run the following commands in Terminal to install FFmpeg:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:djcj/hybrid
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
Once installed, open the FFmpeg from Ubuntu Dash. ffmpeg is a 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.
The ffmpeg command uses the following format:
$ ffmpeg -i input.mp4 output.avi
ffmpeg reads from an arbitrary number of input “files” (which can be regular files, pipes, network streams, grabbing devices, etc.), specified by the -i option, and writes to an arbitrary number of output “files”, which are specified by a plain output filename. Anything found on the command line which cannot be interpreted as an option is considered to be an output filename.