This article will guide you through the process of compiling and installing FFmpeg libraries on a standard Ubuntu 18.04 machine, under the assumption that sudo access is available and extra libraries will be installed in /usr/local. If using a distribution that does not come with FFmpeg 4.0.0 or higher, compiling from the source is required.

Some distributions will have a recent enough FFmpeg for Wolfram Language to use. Install FFmpeg to get more complete codec support. At the end of this post we will compare the list with the supported decoders after FFmpeg is installed: In:= Length $VideoDecodersĭuring evaluation of In:= General::sysffmpeg: Using a limited version of FFmpeg. Here is the list of supported video decoders available before having FFmpeg installed. Without FFmpeg installed, the first time a video function is called a message is displayed, suggesting to install FFmpeg for a more complete codec support. The Codec Support section in that tutorial describes the limitations of the FFmpeg shipped with the language and shows how installing the full version of FFmpeg gets you better support for audio and video codecs. Details and examples showing how to import and export video files can be found in the Importing & Exporting Video tutorial. To read from and write to video files, video functionality uses media libraries provided by operating systems as well as a limited version of FFmpeg that is shipped with the language and can be immediately used. Video object and video processing functions were introduced in Wolfram Language 12.1. Let's begin with a recap of why this is important. Here I explain some details on how this can be done on Linux. In an earlier community post, Piotr explained how installing FFmpeg can improve codec support in the Wolfram Language and how to do it on Windows.

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