How to Install and Use FFmpeg on Ubuntu 20.04 | Linux Today

How to Install and Use FFmpeg on Ubuntu 20.04

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Sep 23, 2020

The official Ubuntu repositories contain FFmpeg packages that can be installed with the apt package manager. This is the easiest way to install FFmpeg on Ubuntu. A new major version is released every six months, and the version included in the repositories usually lags behind the latest version of FFmpeg.

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