Check its license. It has its own license: read it before using it for work.

Is FFmpeg still maintained?

Yes, active. Last change today.

Widely used. 67k stars, 15 years old, by an organization. As with any download, get it from the official repo.

Assembly instructions

FFmpeg/FFmpeg

Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git

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Difficulty: Easy
Time: about 5 min
Stars: ★ 66,800
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Is it free?: Check its licenseIt has its own license: read it before using it for work.
Still maintained?: Yes, activeLast change today.
Can I trust it?: Widely used67k stars, 15 years old, by an organization. As with any download, get it from the official repo.

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Website ↗ffmpeg.orgThe project's own site.

From the maintainers

Install guide: `INSTALL.md`

Installing FFmpeg

If you like to include source plugins, merge them before configure for example run tools/merge-all-source-plugins
Type ./configure to create the configuration. A list of configure options is printed by running configure --help.

configure can be launched from a directory different from the FFmpeg sources to build the objects out of tree. To do this, use an absolute path when launching configure, e.g. /ffmpegdir/ffmpeg/configure.
Then type make to build FFmpeg. GNU Make 3.81 or later is required.
Type make install to install all binaries and libraries you built.

NOTICE

Non system dependencies (e.g. libx264, libvpx) are disabled by default.

NOTICE for Package Maintainers

It is recommended to build FFmpeg twice, first with minimal external dependencies so that 3rd party packages, which depend on FFmpegs libavutil/libavfilter/libavcodec/libavformat can then be built. And last build FFmpeg with full dependencies (which may in turn depend on some of these 3rd party packages). This avoids circular dependencies during build.

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Clone the repository
Needs Git: xcode-select --install
```
git clone https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg.git
cd FFmpeg
```

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Installing FFmpeg

If you like to include source plugins, merge them before configure for example run tools/merge-all-source-plugins

Type ./configure to create the configuration. A list of configure options is printed by running configure --help.

configure can be launched from a directory different from the FFmpeg sources to build the objects out of tree. To do this, use an absolute path when launching configure, e.g. /ffmpegdir/ffmpeg/configure.

Then type make to build FFmpeg. GNU Make 3.81 or later is required.

Type make install to install all binaries and libraries you built.

NOTICE for Package Maintainers

It is recommended to build FFmpeg twice, first with minimal external dependencies so that 3rd party packages, which depend on FFmpegs libavutil/libavfilter/libavcodec/libavformat can then be built. And last build FFmpeg with full dependencies (which may in turn depend on some of these 3rd party packages). This avoids circular dependencies during build.

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Install guide: INSTALL.md

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Install guide: `INSTALL.md`

Install guide: `INSTALL.md`