

To install FFmpeg on CentOS or RHEL, first enable Repoforge on your system, and then run the following. Follow this guide to build FFmpeg from the source. To install FFmpeg on Ubuntu, Debian or Linux Mint, you can compile it yourself. Install FFmpeg on Ubuntu, Debian or Linux Mint In this post, I will describe how to install FFmpeg on various Linux distros. If you want to install FFmpeg on Linux, there are distro-specific ways to do it. While FFmpeg itself is a versatile multimedia tool for end-users, it also provides audio/video codec library with which many multimedia applications are built.

FFmpeg builds are available for Linux, Windows and MacOS X platforms. to see diagnostic information about FFmpeg detection.Last updated on Octoby Dan Nanni FFmpeg is cross-platform free software that can record, transcode, filter and stream audio and video data.


You can also choose Help > Diagnostics > Show Log. button to obtain the correct library for your operating system. If you still see "not found", you may have installed the wrong libraries. Note that the FFmpeg library has been locatedįFmpeg Library Version should now show a set of three version numbers for the sub-libraries of FFmpeg ("F" for libavformat version, "C" for libavcodec version and "U" for libavutil version).Navigate to the folder that contains FFmpeg and select the file " ffmpeg.55.64bit.dylib".If the " Locate FFmpeg" dialog appears, click Browse.If a " Success" message indicates Audacity has now automatically detected valid FFmpeg libraries and asks if you want to detect them manually, click No, then OK to close Preferences.To do this, access Preferences then the " Libraries" tab on the left:Īs in the image above, the "FFmpeg Library Version" will say " FFmpeg library not found". If you installed FFmpeg while Audacity was running, or if you installed FFmpeg to a non-default location, Audacity will ask you to configure Preferences to locate the FFmpeg library.
