How To Install FFmpeg on CentOS 8

Install and use FFmpeg on centOS 8; Through this tutorial, we will learn how to install and use FFmpeg on centOS 8.

FFmpeg is a free and open-source collection of tools for handling multimedia files. It contains a set of shared audio and video libraries such as libavcodec, libavformat, and libavutil. With FFmpeg, you can convert between various video and audio formats, set sample rates, capture streaming audio/video, and resize videos.

How To Install FFmpeg on CentOS 8

Just follow the following steps to install and use FFmpeg on centOS 8:

• Step 1 – Enable EPEL and PowerTools repositories
• Step 2 – Install FFmpeg on CentOS
• Step 3 – Verify the FFmpeg installation
• Step 4 – Uses of FFmpeg

Step 1 – Enable EPEL and PowerTools repositories

First of all, open command line or terminal and execute the following command into it to enable epel and powertools repositories in centOS 8:

sudo dnf install epel-release dnf-utils
sudo yum-config-manager --set-enabled PowerTools
sudo yum-config-manager --add-repo=https://negativo17.org/repos/epel-multimedia.repo

Step 2 – Install FFmpeg on CentOS

Once the repositories are enabled, Then execute the following command on command line or terminal to install FFmpeg:

sudo dnf install ffmpeg

Step 3 – Verify the FFmpeg installation

Now, Verify the FFmpeg installation by executing the following command on command line or terminal:

ffmpeg -version

Step 4 – Uses of FFmpeg

Finally, we will look at some basic examples on how to use the ffmpeg utility.

Convert a video file from mp4 to webm:

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 output.webm

Convert an audio file from mp3 to ogg:

ffmpeg -i input.mp3 output.ogg

Conclusion

Through this tutorial, we have learned how to install and use FFmpeg on centOS 8.

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