{"id":9263,"date":"2019-08-20T13:35:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T13:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=9263"},"modified":"2019-12-11T15:04:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T15:04:32","slug":"install-ffmpeg-4-2-ubuntu-18-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2019\/08\/install-ffmpeg-4-2-ubuntu-18-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install FFmpeg 4.2 in Ubuntu 18.04 \/ Linux Mint 19.x"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6248\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ffmpeg-icon245.png\" alt=\"FFMPEG\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>FFmpeg multimedia libraries 4.2 was released a few weeks ago. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Linux Mint 19.x.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ffmpeg.org\/download.html#release_4.2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FFmpeg 4.2<\/a>, codename &#8220;Ada&#8221;, is a major release that features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>tpad filter, dedot filter, freezedetect filter, lagfun filter, asoftclip filter, colorhold filter, xmedian filter, asr filter, derain filter, deesser filter, anlmdn filter, maskfun filter<\/li>\n<li>chromashift and rgbashift filters, truehd_core bitstream filter, AV1 frame split bitstream filter, showspatial multimedia filter<\/li>\n<li>dhav demuxer, vividas demuxer, KUX demuxer, IFV demuxer<\/li>\n<li>hymt decoder, ARBC decoder, agm decoder, lscr decoder, VP4 video decoder, hcom demuxer and decoder<\/li>\n<li>PCM-DVD encoder<\/li>\n<li>GIF parser<\/li>\n<li>removed libndi-newtek<\/li>\n<li>libaribb24 based ARIB STD-B24 caption support (profiles A and C)<\/li>\n<li>Support decoding of HEVC 4:4:4 content in vdpau, nvdec and cuviddec<\/li>\n<li>AV1 decoding support through libdav1d<\/li>\n<li>mov muxer writes tracks with unspecified language instead of English by default<\/li>\n<li>added support for using clang to compile CUDA kernels<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>How to Install FFmpeg 4.2 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<div class=\"arconix-box arconix-box-yellow\"><i class='fa fa-2x pull-left fa-lightbulb-o'><\/i><div class=\"arconix-box-content\">Updated with new PPA, since the previous PPA has been removed as a protest against the abuse of open-source projects by large companies.<\/div><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~savoury1\/+archive\/ubuntu\/ffmpeg4\" target=\"_blank\">unofficial PPA<\/a> has built the packages for Ubuntu 18.04 and its derivatives.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal either via <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> keyboard shortcut, or by searching for &#8216;terminal&#8217; from application menu. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1\/ffmpeg4<\/pre>\n<p><i> Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ffmpeg4ppa-600x104.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"104\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ffmpeg4ppa-600x104.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ffmpeg4ppa-450x78.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ffmpeg4ppa.jpg 751w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Two more PPAs are required for the dependencies. Run following commands one by one in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1\/graphics<\/pre>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1\/multimedia<\/pre>\n<p><b>3.<\/b> You can then upgrade FFmpeg libraries via Software Updater (Update Manager):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/update-ffmpeg4-450x301.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"301\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/update-ffmpeg4-450x301.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/update-ffmpeg4-600x402.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/update-ffmpeg4.jpg 714w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Or run commands in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">sudo apt-get update\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get install ffmpeg<\/pre>\n<p>Once installed, you may check the software version via command <code>ffmpeg -v<\/code><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ffmpeg-v42-450x286.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"286\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ffmpeg-v42-450x286.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ffmpeg-v42-600x382.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ffmpeg-v42.jpg 754w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>How to Restore:<\/h4>\n<p>The two dependencies PPAs contain many other application packages, you may remove them either via <i>Software &#038; Updates<\/i> -> <i>Other Software<\/i> or by running command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:savoury1\/graphics<\/pre>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:savoury1\/multimedia<\/pre>\n<p>For any reason, you can downgrade FFmpeg to the stock version in Ubuntu universe repositories by purging the PPA via command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:savoury1\/ffmpeg4<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FFmpeg multimedia libraries 4.2 was released a few weeks ago. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Linux Mint 19.x. FFmpeg 4.2, codename &#8220;Ada&#8221;, is a major release that features: tpad filter, dedot filter, freezedetect filter, lagfun filter, asoftclip filter, colorhold filter, xmedian filter, asr filter, derain filter, deesser filter, anlmdn filter, maskfun filter [&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":[1593],"class_list":["post-9263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-ffmpeg-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263","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=9263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}