Your home folder has the same name as your user account.
Move the downloaded files to the right location.
You should now have two executables, called ffmpeg and ffprobe.
This will extract it using the Archive Utility and create an executable ffmpeg file in Downloads.
Open your Downloads folder, and double-click ffmpeg-.zip.
If a popup appears after clicking the download link, press "allow" or "save".
Choosing the shorter filename, under ffprobe-.7z, click "Download the file as ZIP".
Scroll down the page until you see ffprobe.
Underneath this heading, click "Download as ZIP".
Choose the one with the shorter filename this will look like ffmpeg-.7z, where is something like 4.3.1.
You'll see two options for downloading ffmpeg.
Click "Static builds for macOS 64-bit".
Go to and click the Apple logo in the "Get packages & executable files" section.
SSH into your Ubuntu server and update the apt package index.If you still need to install Audio Orchestrator itself, follow the macOS installation instructions first. To install FFmpeg on Ubuntu, follow these steps:ġ. Conveniently, you can install FFmpeg through your distro’s package manager, such as apt in Ubuntu. As such, your computer must have decent hardware capacity.įFmpeg is available in the default repositories of most Linux distributions. Multimedia processing is generally a resource-intensive task.
Your computer must have at least 4GB of RAM and a two-core CPU.
While the installation method varies, FFmpeg usage should be the same across different operating systems. This tutorial will be using Ubuntu 20.04, Windows 10, and macOS Big Sur for the installation.
You’ll need a computer running on a compatible operating system, such as Windows, Linux (RHEL-based, Debian-based, or Ubuntu-based), and macOS.
If you’d like to follow along, be sure you have the following. This tutorial will be a hands-on demonstration.
Example 4: Extracting Audio from a Video File.
Example 3: Changing the Video Resolution.
Example 2: Changing the Container without Encoding.
Example 1: Basic Conversion with Automatic Codec Selection.