Downloads as a compressed installer and runs really easy (like a normal program). This is suggested by ffmpeg as the easiest way to get the most recent version.

The basic steps are as follows, full details after the break:

This tutorial is based on the tutorial by Stephen Jungels, with some explanation and consolidation targeted at noobs (like myself). UPDATE: I did a fresh install of XCode and had to do one small addition to get everything to compile. For someone who isn’t great at installing libraries using Terminal, it wasn’t completely straightforward, but it works! You will need the Apple Developer Tools to make this work (so far as I can tell). Well, it might not be Lion (doing live musical performance with my laptop makes me leary of new operating systems) but after finding little recent info on installing ffmpeg on a Mac, I’ve put together this basic outline.

With a small tweak, it appears to be ok – see below for details. libavformat is a library containing parsers and generators for all common audio/video formats.UPDATE: Having switched recently to Lion, the install below didn’t quite work. Most codecs were developed from scratch to ensure best performance and high code reusability. libavcodec is a library containing all the ffmpeg audio/video encoders and decoders. ffprobe gathers information from multimedia streams and prints it in human- and machine-readable fashion. ffplay is a simple media player based on SDL and on the ffmpeg libraries. Time shifting of live broadcast is also supported. ffserver is an HTTP (RTSP is being developed) multimedia streaming server for live broadcasts. It also supports grabbing and encoding in real time from a TV card. The project is made of several components: ffmpeg is a command line tool to convert one video file format to another. It includes libavcodec, the leading audio/video codec library. FFmpeg is a complete solution to play, record, convert and stream audio and video.įFmpeg is a complete solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.

Installing ffmpeg