With FFmpeg, you can convert between various video and audio formats, set sample rates, capture streaming audio/video, and resize videos. It contains a set of shared audio and video libraries such as libavcodec, libavformat, and libavutil. NOTE: The downgrade process may also remove some other apps.FFmpeg is a free and open-source collection of tools for handling multimedia files. Then purge the PPAs via the commands below one by one: sudo ppa-purge ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg5 sudo ppa-purge ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg4 Firstly, install the ppa-purge tool via command: sudo apt install ppa-purge You may purge the two PPAs which also downgrade all the installed packages. When everything’s done successfully, verify via ffmpeg -version command. NOTE: This command may remove some apps on your system due to package conflict! DO CHECK the terminal output before typing ‘ y‘ to confirm installation! If you’re running Ubuntu 18.04 or Ubuntu 16.04, you need to manually refresh the system package cache by running command: sudo apt update 3.) Upgrade FFmpeg to 5.0:įinally, run the command below to install all the available updates including FFmpeg 5: sudo apt full-upgrade Sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg5Īlso add the FFmpeg4 PPA which contains the dependency libraries: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg4 When it opens, run command to add the PPA: 1.) Add the PPAsįirstly, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open a terminal window. The PPA still works, and if you find it’s useful you may help by making donations (see the previous link). Though the updates is suspend due to lack of donations.

Rob Savoury has built the FFmpeg 5.0 packages into PPA for all the current Ubuntu LTS releases.

IMPORTANT: Upgrading FFmpeg is not recommended for beginners! It may conflict with other packages in your system.

ADPCM IMA Acorn Replay decoder, GEM Raster image decoder.

ADPCM IMA Westwood encoder, Apple Graphics (SMC) encoder, VideoToolbox ProRes encoder.

remove the entire libavresample library.

new easy to use AVframe-based API for libswscale.

remove the old encode/decode APIs and replace them with an N:M-based API.

Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 18.04 and/or Ubuntu 16.04 via PPA.įFmpeg 5.0, codename “Lorentz”, is a new major release that features: The popular FFmpeg multi-media library released version 5.0 recently.

Ffmpeg ubuntu package