

Replace the part between with the specific version installed.Īll done! Using the upload media dialog in ftrack should now work.

Symlink FFmpeg and ffprobe to /usr/bin to make the commands accessible to the ftrack user. # Download ffmpeg and ffprobe binaries to your /opt folder.įor latest version of binaries look at this site To install and configure FFmpeg and ffprobe on your local server follow these steps (making sure to replace " " with the one downloaded): A new ftrack installation package is available, please read more here.įFmpeg and ffprobe is used to encode uploaded media to formats that the browser support. Learning all the features of this incredible tool is a whole different story.💡 Note that this article is about the Classic on-prem installation package targeting Centos6. Installing FFMpeg on Linux is fairly easy thanks to the RPM Fusion repositories. You simply need to install the packages via APT. The FFmpeg packages are available in the base Ubuntu repositories. sudo dnf install ffmpeg Installing FFmpeg on Ubuntu Just enable the RPM Fusion repositories like so: sudo dnf install $(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm $(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm Installing FFmpeg on Fedora is much easier. sudo dnf install ffmpeg Installing FFmpeg on Fedora Now you are ready to install FFmpeg via DNF. sudo subscription-manager repos -enable "codeready-builder-for-rhel-8-*-rpms" Then use subscription manager to enable the codeready-builder repository. Or you can use latest official static builds from here. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/trusty-media sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ffmpeg. This is valid for Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04.

In fact the first two steps are identical. To use the add-apt-repository command you need to: apt-get install software-properties-common. The steps required to install FFmpeg on Red Hat 8 are very similar to CentOS 8 above. sudo dnf install ffmpeg Installing FFmpeg on Red Hat 8 Now that we have all of our prerequisites installed, we can use DNF to install FFmpeg and all it's dependencies. sudo dnf config-manager -enable PowerTools The last step is to enable the PowerTools repository in CentOS 8. Next we install the RPM Fusion repository will provides the base FFmpeg and other required packages.

Let's walk through them one by one.įirst we need to install and enable the EPEL repository since it contains several required packages. Installing FFmpeg on CentOS 8 takes several steps. yum install ffmpeg Installing FFmpeg on CentOS 8 Then use YUM to install the FFmpeg package via YUM. You must first install the RPM Fusion repository like so: sudo yum localinstall -nogpgcheck The FFmpeg package is not available in the base repositories. Installing FFmpeg on CentOS 7 or Red Hat 7
