How To Install FFmpeg on Fedora

FFmpeg is a free utility for decoding and encoding video or audio. Converting audio and video becomes very easy with this FFmpeg utility. It also provides a cross-platform solution for recording, converting and streaming audio and video. This article will focus on installing FFmpeg for the following Fedora Linux versions: Fedora 31 and Fedora 32

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First you need to add the RPM Fusion repository

$ sudo dnf -y install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
$ sudo dnf -y install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

Then you need to update the system to the latest packages

$ sudo dnf update

After that, go directly to installing FFmpeg

$ sudo dnf install -y ffmpeg

Finally, you need to make sure that FFmpeg is working properly. To do this, run the following command:

$ ffmpeg --help

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