homebrew-ffmpeg

This is a 3rd party tap for Homebrew. It provides a formula for ffmpeg which includes options for enabling additional features and libraries.

⚠️ Note: This tap is currently not actively maintained. For an up-to-date tap, see homebrew-ffmpeg.

Contents:

• Installation and usage
• Updating
• FAQ
• Included libraries
• Issues
• Maintainers

Installation and usage

In order to use this tap, you need to install Homebrew or Linuxbrew.

Then, to run a default installation, run:

brew tap varenc/ffmpeg
brew install varenc/ffmpeg/ffmpeg

Note: If you already have ffmpeg installed from Homebrew core, you will receive an error. You need to first run brew uninstall ffmpeg before you can use this tap.

Installing with options

To see the list of supported options for this formula, run:

brew options varenc/ffmpeg/ffmpeg

Then, you can run:

brew install varenc/ffmpeg/ffmpeg --with-<option1> --with-<option2> ...

Installing latest Git version (HEAD)

FFmpeg recommends installing the latest Git master version over a release. This formula builds the latest release by default, but you can install the latest Git version by adding the --HEAD option:

brew install varenc/ffmpeg/ffmpeg --HEAD

Installing everything

To compile and install ffmpeg with all options, just run:

brew install varenc/ffmpeg/ffmpeg $(brew options varenc/ffmpeg/ffmpeg --compact)

Note that this will perform a full build of ffmpeg and its dependencies, which may take a while depending on your machine's capabilities.

Updating

To update Homebrew and upgrade the formula to the most recent stable release:

brew update && brew upgrade varenc/ffmpeg/ffmpeg

Or, if you are using the HEAD version and want to update to the latest commit:

brew update && brew upgrade varenc/ffmpeg/ffmpeg --fetch-HEAD

Included libraries

This formula installs the following libraries by default:

This formula features the following libraries optionally:

Issues

To report issues, please file an issue on GitHub. Please note that we will only be able to help with issues that are exclusive to this tap.

If the problem is reproducible with the homebrew-core version of ffmpeg, please file it on their tracker.

Maintainers

• Chris Varenhorst (@varenc)