This will compile and install the FFmpeg code that we just downloaded. Next, copy and paste the following code into your terminal window and press enter on your keyboard. Navigate to the newly extracted ffmpeg directory: $ cd ~/ffmpeg/ffmpeg These commands will create a new directory (if it doesn’t already exist) and then download the latest FFmpeg snapshot to said directory and extract the content from the tarball: $ if then cd ~/ffmpeg else mkdir ~/ffmpeg & cd ~/ffmpeg fi Now that the prerequisites are satisfied, we can download the latest FFmpeg source code for installation. Successful compilation of the libx265-dev library Compile and install latest FFmpeg Once it finishes compiling, we can move on to installing FFmpeg. You’ll get a lot of output in your terminal, so keep an eye out for error messages. $ PATH='$HOME/bin:$PATH' cmake -G 'Unix Makefiles' -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX='$HOME/ffmpeg_build' -DENABLE_SHARED:bool=off. However, it’s best to compile this library from source as the version available in the Ubuntu repository may not be on par with the version that the latest FFmpeg requires.Įxecute the following commands in terminal to download and compile the libx265-dev package from source. We will also need the libx265-dev development library. $ sudo apt install libopus-dev libmp3lame-dev libfdk-aac-dev libvpx-dev libx264-dev yasm libass-dev libtheora-dev libvorbis-dev mercurial cmake build-essential Install the necessary prerequisites with the following two commands in terminal: $ sudo apt update In order to compile FFmpeg, we’re going to need a few packages already installed on our system. If you need access to new features that haven’t made it to the mainstream release yet, this is the method you’ll want to use. This next method of installing FFmpeg will give you the absolute latest version of it.

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