

All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, update the local repository index and install the ffmpeg-real package. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/trusty-media. Buffer Overflow vulnerability exists in FFmpeg 4.1 via apngdoinverseblend in libavcodec/pngenc.c, which could let a remote malicious user cause a. ffmpeg can be installed using mc3man ppa (personal package archive) using the following steps. FFmpeg 4.2 is affected by a Divide By Zero issue via libavcodec/aaccoder, which allows a remote malicious user to cause a Denial of Service. In this article I will show you how to install FFmpeg 2.6.0 “Grothendieck” on Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet, Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Deepin 2014, Peppermint Five, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems.īecause it is available via PPA, installing FFmpeg 2.6.0 on Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and derivative systems is easy. Ubuntu Linux (14.04) does not have ffmpeg in default package source repositories. The latest version available is FFmpeg 2.6 “Grothendieck”, which has been recently released, coming with basic supprot for NVENC, the NVIDIA Video Encoder API for H.264 encoding and improvements to the VP9 decoder performance for x86 32-bit systems and pre-SSE3 CPUs.

As you may know, FFmpeg is a popular multimedia framework, that enables the users to easily ncode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play audio and video content.Īlso worth mentioning, FFmpeg provides the ffmpeg tool for converting multimedia files, the ffserver streaming tool, the ffplay media player based on SDL and ffmpeg libraries and the ffprobe multimedia stream analyzer. Ubuntu repositories have FFmpeg packages by default and these packages can be installed using the apt package manager. sudo apt install software-properties-common sudo apt update sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/ffmpeg-4 sudo apt install ffmpeg ffmpeg -v.
