{"id":10325,"date":"2020-06-19T16:17:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T16:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=10325"},"modified":"2020-06-19T16:17:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T16:17:09","slug":"install-ffmpeg-4-3-via-ppa-ubuntu-18-04-16-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/06\/install-ffmpeg-4-3-via-ppa-ubuntu-18-04-16-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install FFmpeg 4.3 in via PPA Ubuntu 18.04, 16.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ffmpeg-icon245.png\" alt=\"FFMPEG\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6248\" \/><\/p>\n<p>FFmpeg 4.3 was released a few days ago as the new major release. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 16.04, and Linux Mint 18.x, 19.x.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s new in FFmpeg 4.3:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Intel QSV-accelerated MJPEG decoding<\/li>\n<li>Intel QSV-accelerated VP9 decoding<\/li>\n<li>Support for TrueHD in mp4<\/li>\n<li>Support AMD AMF encoder on Linux (via Vulkan)<\/li>\n<li>Vulkan support.<\/li>\n<li>AV1 encoding support via rav1e, an AV1 Annex B demuxer.<\/li>\n<li>ZeroMQ support<\/li>\n<li>VDPAU VP9 decode<\/li>\n<li>And much more other features, see <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/FFmpeg\/FFmpeg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Changelog file in Github<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>How to Install FFmpeg 4.3 via PPA:<\/h4>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~jonathonf\/+archive\/ubuntu\/ffmpeg-4\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unofficial PPA<\/a> has built the packages, so far only support for Ubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu 16.04.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.)<\/b> Open terminal either by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard, or by searching for &#8216;terminal&#8217; from your system application menu. When it opens, run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf\/ffmpeg-4<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type user password (no asterisk feedback) and hit Enter to continue.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ffmpeg4-ppa-600x83.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"83\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ffmpeg4-ppa-600x83.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ffmpeg4-ppa-450x62.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ffmpeg4-ppa.jpg 746w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.)<\/b> Then refresh system package cache and install FFmpeg 4.3 via commands:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt update\r\n\r\nsudo apt install ffmpeg<\/pre>\n<p>Once installed, check version via <code>ffmpeg -v<\/code> command:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ffmpeg43.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"329\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ffmpeg43.png 520w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ffmpeg43-450x285.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Uninstall:<\/h4>\n<p>To remove the PPA repository as well as downgrade FFmpeg to the stock version, run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:jonathonf\/ffmpeg-4<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FFmpeg 4.3 was released a few days ago as the new major release. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 16.04, and Linux Mint 18.x, 19.x. What&#8217;s new in FFmpeg 4.3: Intel QSV-accelerated MJPEG decoding Intel QSV-accelerated VP9 decoding Support for TrueHD in mp4 Support AMD AMF encoder on Linux (via Vulkan) Vulkan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1931],"class_list":["post-10325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-ffmpeg-4-3-ppa"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}