This tutorial is going to show you how to install the latest version of FFmpeg, so far it’s FFmpeg 2.1.2, in Ubuntu, Linux Mint and their derivatives via PPA.
FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. 2.1.2 was released on 2014-01-13. It is the latest stable FFmpeg release from the 2.1 release branch, which was cut from master on 2013-10-28. Amongst lots of other changes, it includes all changes from ffmpeg-mt, libav master of 2013-10-27, libav 9 as of 2013-10-27.
Sam Rog has been maintaining the most recent FFmpeg packages in his PPA for Ubuntu, Linux Mint and their derivatives. The PPA is trustable and so far it supports Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10.
To add the PPA, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it open, run below command:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:djcj/vlc-stable
Then you can check for updates via Synaptic Package Manager. Or just run below commands instead:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
How about libx265 ?
@14.04 after adding the ppa:
# apt-get install ffmpeg
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Package ffmpeg is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package ‘ffmpeg’ has no installation candidate
I got the same result. Boo.
same
same result in mint 17.
Package ‘ffmpeg’ has no installation candidate
The author has a common typo:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:samrog131/ppa
should be
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:samrog131/ppa
Try that, then the update/upgrade, then install ffmpeg. Worked for me this morning.
@Aaron, add-apt-repository and apt-add-repository do the same.
Run below command in terminal:
It outputs:
Which means
apt-add-repositoryis simply a symlink toadd-apt-repositoryAbove failed for me too on Mint 17 x64. However using the ppa specified from:
http://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html
worked after a couple of tries.
ppa:jon-severinsson/ffmpeg
Cheers,
Matt.
This article is totally wrong and should be removed.
Yep, article is misleading
It didn’t work for me too. I’m on ubuntu 13.10. I’d ffmpeg version : ffmpeg 0.8.12-6:0.8.12-0ubuntu0.13.10.1
I ran:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:samrog131/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Then I ran:
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
Now, I see that the version is the same as earlier. I didn’t get the latest one!
Please guide how to move ahead.
(Though I will go through the link provided by @MattH7)
As per ffmpeg website, the solution is simply here:
“https://launchpad.net/~jon-severinsson/+archive/ubuntu/ffmpeg”
Add the official ffmpeg repo:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jon-severinsson/ffmpeg
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
And that’s it!
jon-severinsson rep worked for me.
Thank You, Pierre!!
Thank you for WHAT??
This article is about **latest ffmpeg 2.1.2**
However, this egomaniac guy who posts his “helpful” launchpad site everywhere only provides version **1.2**
On Sam Rog’s site, however, I can find a true 2.4.2 version to install. For me, this is quite a difference.
These guys finally do have to clean up their “version jungle” so that also non-super-pro users will understand what to do. Currently this is unbearable.
Libavcodec 53 is where I’m stuck… remember when you could sudo update this stuff? The good old days… Ubuntu even took away my login rights because I’ve been away for that long…
No longer works for Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jon-severinsson/ffmpeg
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
root@Veyron:/etc/apt# apt-get install ffmpeg
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
ffmpeg : Depends: libavcodec54 (>= 7:1.2.5~) but it is not going to be installed or
libavcodec-extra-54 (>= 7:1.2.5~) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libavdevice53 (>= 7:1.2.5~) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libavfilter3 (>= 7:1.2.5~) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libavformat54 (>= 7:1.2.5~) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libsdl1.2debian (>= 1.2.11) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Ok nevermind. I managed to screw up my sources.list somehow