ffmpeg on Mac

Tomokatsu Yukishita (雪下 智且)
Last updated on 2022/07/19 1 min read

Introduction

This page outlines the steps to enable ffmpeg on a Mac.

ffmpeg Can Be Installed Using Homebrew

When using tools like ffmpeg on a Mac, Homebrew makes installation simple.

Homebrew
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The Missing Package Manager for macOS (or Linux).
https://brew.sh/

Follow the instructions on the Homebrew website to quickly install it via the terminal:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Once Homebrew is installed, proceed to install ffmpeg:

brew install ffmpeg

Enter the command above to begin the installation. Convenient, right?

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Screen during ffmpeg installation via Home brew

After installation, ffmpeg will be ready for use.

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fmpeg was installed easily.

For reference, ffmpeg version 5.0.1 was installed:

tomokatsu@snow-under-MacBook-Pro ~ % ffmpeg -version
ffmpeg version 5.0.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2022 the FFmpeg developers
built with Apple clang version 13.1.6 (clang-1316.0.21.2.5)
configuration: --prefix=/opt/homebrew/Cellar/ffmpeg/5.0.1_1 --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-version3 --cc=clang --host-cflags= --host-ldflags= --enable-ffplay --enable-gnutls --enable-gpl --enable-libaom --enable-libbluray --enable-libdav1d --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-librav1e --enable-librist --enable-librubberband --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsrt --enable-libtesseract --enable-libtheora --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvmaf --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxml2 --enable-libxvid --enable-lzma --enable-libfontconfig --enable-libfreetype --enable-frei0r --enable-libass --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libspeex --enable-libsoxr --enable-libzmq --enable-libzimg --disable-libjack --disable-indev=jack --enable-videotoolbox --enable-neon
libavutil      57. 17.100 / 57. 17.100
libavcodec     59. 18.100 / 59. 18.100
libavformat    59. 16.100 / 59. 16.100
libavdevice    59.  4.100 / 59.  4.100
libavfilter     8. 24.100 /  8. 24.100
libswscale      6.  4.100 /  6.  4.100
libswresample   4.  3.100 /  4.  3.100
libpostproc    56.  3.100 / 56.  3.100
FFMpeg News
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FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework, able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and machines have created. It supports the most obscure ancient formats up to the cutting edge. No matter if they were designed by some standards committee, the community or a corporation. It is also highly portable: FFmpeg compiles, runs, and passes our testing infrastructure FATE across Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, the BSDs, Solaris, etc. under a wide variety of build environments, machine architectures, and configurations.
https://ffmpeg.org/index.html#news

According to the ffmpeg website, ffmpeg 5.0 is the latest version, which has been successfully installed.

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Tomokatsu Yukishita (雪下 智且)
Tomokatsu Yukishita (雪下 智且)

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