How do I install ffmpeg on Debian Jessie?
It is now available for Jessy as a backport: https://packages.debian.org/jessie-backports/ffmpeg
Add something like this to /etc/apt/sources.list (with your preferred mirror):
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main
Then
apt-get update
apt-get install ffmpeg
Try using aptitude
to install it because it will give you possible solutions. Just make sure you look over each one carefully.
sudo aptitude install ffmpeg
Fix broken package
sudo apt-get install -f
Add the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org jessie main non-free
deb-src http://www.deb-multimedia.org jessie main non-free
Update:
apt-get update
Add the key
apt-get install deb-multimedia-keyring
update
apt-get update
Remove ffmpeg
Debian packge
apt-get remove ffmpeg
As root Install library packages and build tools:
apt-get install build-essential libmp3lame-dev libvorbis-dev libtheora-dev libspeex-dev yasm pkg-config libfaac-dev libopenjpeg-dev libx264-dev
Download the latest ffmpeg from here
wget https://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-3.0.2.tar.bz2
Extract it
tar xvjf ffmpeg-3.0.2.tar.bz2
Move into the directory
cd ffmpeg-3.0.2
Configure, build and install:
./configure --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-swscale --enable-avfilter --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libx264 --enable-libspeex --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libfaac --enable-nonfree
make -j 16
sudo make install