Install FFMPEG 2.8.4 on Ubuntu and Linux Mint Derivative System

FFmpeg is an open source utility that allows Linux, Windows and Mac OS X users to playback, convert, record and stream video and audio files. It is used in almost all Linux distributions. It is a command-line software that can encode, decode, demux, mux, transcode, stream, play and filter almost any media format available. FFmpeg uses libavcodec, the most advanced audio/video codec library for Linux and UNIX-like systems.

Features at a glance

The software is comprised of a multimedia streaming server for live broadcasts, a simple media player based on the powerful SDL library, a simple multimedia stream analyzer, a library that contains functions for simplifying programming, and another library that includes muxers and demuxers for multimedia container formats. Additionally, it comes with support for input and output devices, media filters, a library for performing highly optimized image scaling and color space/pixel format conversion operations, and a library for performing highly optimized audio rematrixing, resampling and sample format conversions.


What News on version 2.8.4 :

• Amongst lots of other changes, it includes all changes from ffmpeg-mt, libav master of 2015-08-28, libav 11 as of 2015-08-28.

It includes the following library versions:

• libavutil 54. 31.100
• libavcodec 56. 60.100
• libavformat 56. 40.101
• libavdevice 56. 4.100
• libavfilter 5. 40.101
• libavresample 2. 1. 0
• libswscale 3. 1.101
• libswresample 1. 2.101
• libpostproc 53. 3.100

How to Install FFMPEG 2.8.4 on Ubuntu and Linux Mint Derivative System