This will make sure that you don’t have any buffering issues while streaming from your Jellyfin server. In this article, we saw how to install ffmpeg on various Linux distributions and use it to convert a video from x265 HEVC format to x264 format which is less resource-hungry.
Conclusionįfmpeg is a powerful tool that can be used to convert videos from one format to another. Please note that this could be a time and resource-consuming process and only proceed with it if you have mid to high hardware specifications (mainly GPU). 00:00:00 and 00:00:50 defines the beginning and end of the output file from the original video. In the above command, -map0 selects all the streams from the input file, -c copy copies all the streams which are selected and then -c:v libx264 finally encodes the video in x264 format. Remove GPG key and repository: sudo rm -rf /etc/apt//savoury1_ubuntu_ffmpeg4.gpg If you want to completely remove FFmpeg and related dependencies, execute the following command: sudo apt purge -autoremove -y ffmpeg When it finished, we can check FFmpeg version: ffmpeg -versionĪvailable encoders and decoders can be checked using the following commands: ffmpeg -encodersĭownload sample video file: wget -O test.mp4 Ĭonvert MP4 video file format to MKV using ffmpeg command: ffmpeg -i test.mp4 out.mkv Uninstall FFmpeg Install FFmpeg 4.4: sudo apt install -y ffmpeg
Install FFmpegĪdd the FFmpeg repository: sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg4 This tutorial demonstrates how to install FFmpeg 4.4 on Ubuntu 20.04. These tools used for converting video and audio files from one format into another, resizing videos, streaming audio and video, and doing various other actions with media files. FFmpeg is an open-source collection of tools that allows to process video and audio files.
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