Install FFmpeg on Ubuntu 22.04: Easy Tool To Work with Media Files

This tutorial intends to teach you How To Install FFmpeg on Ubuntu 22.04. FFmpeg is a powerful collection of libraries and tools that allows you to work with media files. You can use it to convert video files between different formats, re-encode a video file with a different codec, extract image frames from a video file, and much more.

FFmpeg is available on multiple platforms, including Windows, macOS, and various Linux distributions. You can now follow the guide steps below on the Orcacore website to set up FFmpeg on Ubuntu 22.04.

Steps To Install and Use FFmpeg on Ubuntu 22.04

To complete this guide for setting up FFmpeg on Ubuntu 22.04, you must log in to your server as a non-root user with sudo privileges. To do this, you can follow our guide on Initial Server Setup with Ubuntu 22.04.

Now follow the steps below to start FFmpeg installation on Ubuntu 22.04.

1. Install FFmpeg on Ubuntu 22.04

FFmpeg packages are available in the default Ubuntu repository.

First, update your local package index with the following command:

sudo apt update

Then, you can install FFmpeg with the following command:

sudo apt install ffmpeg -y

After your installation is completed, you can verify it by checking its version:

ffmpeg -version

In your output you will see something similar to this:

Output
ffmpeg version 4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2021 the FFmpeg developers
built with gcc 11 (Ubuntu 11.2.0-19ubuntu1)
...

2. List Available FFMpeg encoder and decoder

Now you can see all available FFMpeg encoder and decoder types on Ubuntu 22.04 with the following commands:

ffmpeg -encoders

ffmpeg -decoders

At this point, you have installed FFmpeg on your Ubuntu 22.04. Now you can start using it.

3. How To Use FFmpeg on Ubuntu 22.04?

In this step, we will show you how to use FFmpeg with some basic examples.

You don’t have to specify the input and output formats when you are converting the audio and video files with FFmpeg on Ubuntu 22.04.

The input file format is auto-detected, and the output format is guessed from the file extension.

For example, to convert a video file from mp4 to webm you can use the following command:

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 output.webm

And to convert an audio file from mp3 to ogg you can use the following command:

ffmpeg -i input.mp3 output.ogg

Also, you can use the –c parameter to specify the codecs when you are converting the files.

For example, you can convert a video file from mp4 to webm using the libvpx video codec and the libvorbis audio codec:

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v libvpx -c:a libvorbis output.webm

And to convert an audio file mp3 to ogg encoded with the libopus codec, you can use the following command:

ffmpeg -i input.mp3 -c:a libopus output.ogg

For more details and information about FFmpeg, you can visit the official FFmpeg documentation page.

Conclusion

FFmpeg is a powerful multimedia framework that can handle various audio, video, and image processing tasks on Ubuntu 22.04. At this point, you have learned to Install and Use FFmpeg on Ubuntu 22.04.

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