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The FFmpeg is an opensource transcoding tool for multimedia files. It provides a lot of shared libraries such as libavcodec, libavformat, and libavutil etc. You can convert various video and audio formats, resize videos, set sample rates, etc. using this tool.
Here I am providing the steps to install the latest FFmpeg 4.x version on the Ubuntu OS.
Here I am providing the steps to install the latest FFmpeg 4.x version on the Ubuntu OS.
- Login to the server as root user.
- Instead of using 'apt', it is better to use the 'snap' command to install the packages in a single step.
- First, you need to check if the snap command is already existing on the server. If not, please install it using the following command:
# apt install snapd - Once installed, you can simply install FFmpeg using the following command:
# snap install ffmpeg - It will take some time to complete the installation. You can use the 'ffmpeg' command to get the details about the installation: