Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, FFmpeg is a popular multimedia framework, that enables the users to easily ncode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play audio and video content.
Also worth mentioning, FFmpeg provides the ffmpeg tool for converting multimedia files, the ffserver streaming tool, the ffplay media player based on SDL and ffmpeg libraries and the ffprobe multimedia stream analyzer.
The latest version available is FFmpeg 2.3.2 “Mandelbrot” which has been released a while ago, coming with updates for the ffmpeg-mt, libavutil, libavcodec, libavformat, libavdevice, libavfilter, libavresample, libswscale, libswresample, and libpostproc packages.
In this article I will show you how to install FFmpeg 2.3.2 Mandelbrot on Fedora 20, Fedora 19, Debian Jessie and Debian Sid.
Follow the instructions for your system exactly, in order to get a successful installation.
How to install FFmpeg 2.2.2 on Debian Sid:
$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org sid main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install deb-multimedia-keyring
$ sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
How to install FFmpeg 2.2.2 on Jessie:
$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org jessie main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install deb-multimedia-keyring
$ sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
How to install FFmpeg 2.2.2 on Fedora 20:
$ wget download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-20.noarch.rpm
$ sudo rpm -i rpmfusion-nonfree-release-20.noarch.rpm
$ sudo yum update
$ sudo yum --enablerepo=rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing install ffmpeg
How to install FFmpeg 2.2.2 on Fedora 19:
$ wget download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-19.noarch.rpm
$ sudo rpm -i rpmfusion-nonfree-release-19.noarch.rpm
$ sudo yum update
$ sudo yum --enablerepo=rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing install ffmpeg