Ffmpeg Mac Install

Feb 22, 2011 Installing and using FFmpeg on Mac OS X. The FFmpeg project is a fast, accurate multimedia transcoder which can be applied in a variety of scenarios on OS X. If you just want to add a good video transcoder to a toolset that already includes Final Cut Pro, Adobe Photoshop, and similar tools, FFmpegX may be your best choice because of its familiar Mac-style user interface. In this video i am going to show How to Install FFMPEG on macOS. FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimed. Jun 14, 2019 Since FFmpegX works on Mac and it includes FFmpeg, we can just extract FFmpeg from FFmpegX package. Download FFmpegX DMG package online to your Mac. Control-Click the FFmpegX package, and choose 'Show Package Contents.' In the window that appears, open 'Resources.' Audacity on Mac is now a 64-bit application. This means that if you are a user of previous Audacity versions on Mac and had installed the optional FFmpeg library then you must now install the 64-bit versions of the FFmpeg library, otherwise your imports and exports that depend upon FFmpeg will no longer work. Install ffmpeg on a Mac Installation instructions for getting ffmpeg on your Mac, which donn't assume you know how to use Terminal or how to execute commands. Every step is outlined below with screenshots and some explanations of what the commands are, for the curious.

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For those that don't know about FFmpeg, it's a project containing a command line suite of tools that allow someone to convert quite literally any piece of media to any other piece of media. It includes an entire library of codecs that can be used to wrangle just about any piece of video. It includes sub-components that allow for just about infinite flexibility. If you work in media you probably use VLC, a great tool, plays about anything. VLC actually uses the codec library from the FFmpeg project, that's why it works so well. Components of FFmpeg are found in many media products.

However, one down side to FFmpeg is that it's flexible nature can make it tricky to install. Thankfully it has gotten easier though the simpler installation methods aren't well published. A friend emailed over the weekend asking how to install it on a Mac. I promised a blog post in our community that might help him or others dealing with media.

I'll assume you have 10.9 or newer. There are two options for an 'easy install', Homebrew or MacPorts. Note, don't put Homebrew and MacPorts on the same machine, they don't like each other, pick one or the other.

Install Xcode

1. Install Xcode from the Mac App Store.
2. Open Terminal, enter the following and click 'accept' on the dialog box:

Alfred 4. Using MacPorts

1. Get the latest MacPorts 'easy installer' and install it: https://distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/
2. Install FFmpeg

Using Homebrew

1. Install Homebrew with the following command:
2. Install FFmpeg. The command will be 'brew install ffmpeg –ANY-OPTIONS-YOU-WANT'.

A couple quick notes. You might be asking 'what's the difference between Homebrew and MacPorts?' Well, they basically do the same thing. Quark minecraft. Homebrew is a little easier to use, MacPorts is a little more complicated but powerful (though many would argue the point). In truth I have just had a little easier time with MacPorts while I seem to have to wrestle a little more with Homebrew. For instance, in this article I actually had some bugs with Homebrew I had to fight. Conversely, the FFMPEG Project actually documents and supports Homebrew.

If there's any interest in a 'How To Use FFmpeg' post please comment!

Edit: Here's a list of optional installs using Homebrew

–with-fdk-aac (Enable the Fraunhofer FDK AAC library)
–with-ffplay (Enable FFplay media player)
–with-freetype (Build with freetype support)
–with-frei0r (Build with frei0r support)
–with-libass (Enable ASS/SSA subtitle format)
–with-libcaca (Build with libcaca support)
–with-libvo-aacenc (Enable VisualOn AAC encoder)
–with-libvorbis (Build with libvorbis support)
–with-libvpx (Build with libvpx support)
–with-opencore-amr (Build with opencore-amr support)
–with-openjpeg (Enable JPEG 2000 image format)
–with-openssl (Enable SSL support)
–with-opus (Build with opus support)
–with-rtmpdump (Enable RTMP protocol)
–with-schroedinger (Enable Dirac video format)
–with-speex (Build with speex support)
–with-theora (Build with theora support)
–with-tools (Enable additional FFmpeg tools)
–without-faac (Build without faac support)
–without-lame (Disable MP3 encoder)
–without-x264 (Disable H.264 encoder)
–without-xvid (Disable Xvid MPEG-4 video encoder)
–devel (install development version 2.1.1)
–HEAD (install HEAD version)

Ffmpeg Mac Install

About the App

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• App name: ffmpeg
• App description: Play record convert and stream audio and video
• App website: https://ffmpeg.org/

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Install the App

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1. Press Command+Space and type Terminal and press enter/return key.
2. Run in Terminal app:
   ruby -e '$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)' 2> /dev/null
   and press enter/return key. If you are prompted to enter your Mac's user password, enter it (when you type it, you wont see it on your screen/terminal.app but it would accept the input; this is to ensure no one can see your password on your screen while you type it. So just type password and press enter, even if you dont see it on your screen). Then wait for the command to finish.
3. Run:
   brew install ffmpeg

Done! You can now use ffmpeg.