Install FFmpeg on Ubuntu, via Apt-Get (Terminal Command Line). Download and install FFmpeg on Ubuntu, via PPA. Terminal commands to install FFmpeg 3.0 1.72 on Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10 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.
Install FFmpeg on Ubuntu
Run the following commands to install FFmpeg on Linux Ubuntu Systems. Please note that you will have to run the following commands one by one.
wget http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-3.0.tar.bz2
sudo tar jxf ffmpeg-3.0.tar.bz2
cd ffmpeg-3.0
sudo make
sudo make install
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. To convert a file, simply run the command in the following format:
$ ffmpeg -i input.mp4 output.avi