Tuesday, September 13, 2016

FFmpeg 3.1.3 released, Install on Ubuntu 16.04

FFmpeg is a popular multimedia framework, that enables the users to easily ncode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play audio and video content.



 FFmpeg 3.1.3 changelog

  •     avcodec/exr: Check tile positions
  •     avcodec/aacenc: Tighter input checks
  •     avformat/wtvdec: Check pointer before use
  •     libavcodec/wmalosslessdec: Check the remaining bits
  •     avcodec/adpcm: Fix adpcm_ima_wav padding
  •     avcodec/svq3: fix slice size check
  •     avcodec/diracdec: Check numx/y
  •     avcodec/h2645_parse: fix nal size
  •     avcodec/h2645_parse: Use get_nalsize() in ff_h2645_packet_split()
  •     h2645_parse: only read avc length code at the correct position
  •     h2645_parse: don’t overread AnnexB NALs within an avc stream
  •     avcodec/h264_parser: Factor get_avc_nalsize() out
  •     avcodec/cfhd: Increase minimum band dimension to 3
  •     avcodec/indeo2: check ctab
  •     avformat/swfdec: Fix inflate() error code check
  •     avcodec/rawdec: Fix bits_per_coded_sample checks
  •     vcodec/h2645_parse: Clear buffer padding
  •     avcodec/h2645: Fix NAL unit padding
  •     avfilter/drawutils: Fix single plane with alpha
  •     cmdutils: check for SetDllDirectory() availability
  •     It includes the following library versions:
    • libavutil 55. 28.100
    • libavcodec 57. 48.101
    • libavformat 57. 41.100
    • libavdevice 57. 0.101
    • libavfilter 6. 47.100
    • libavresample 3. 0. 0
    • libswscale 4. 1.100
    • libswresample 2. 1.100
    • libpostproc 54. 0.100

Installation instructions:

     Up to date packages are available via some third party PPA, so installing the software on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus), Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf), Ubuntu 15.04(Vivid Vervet), Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr), Linux Mint 17.x, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya and other Ubuntu derivative systems.

    All you have to do is add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index and install the ffmpeg package:

Run the following commands in Terminal to install :



$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:djcj/hybrid

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

 Optional, to remove ffmpeg, do:

$ sudo apt-get remove ffmpeg

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