FFmpeg 2.6.3 “Grothendieck” is out, Install on Ubuntu or Linux Mint via PPA

FFmpeg 2.6.3 “Grothendieck”  is out, Install on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems via PPA

FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework, cross-platform solution that is used to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream,filter and play any audio or video files. A notable addition to this release is the support for NVENC — the Nvidia Video Encoder interface for H.264 encoding.

FFmpeg 2.6.3 changelog

• diracdec: prevent overflow in data_unit_size check
• ffmpeg: remove incorrect network deinit
• avformat/avidec: add mp2 to the list of exceptions… n2.6.3
• avformat/mov: Fix parsing short loci
• avformat/mov: Print reason of loci parsing failure
• avcodec/hevc: Fix typo in num_entry_point_offsets check
• avcodec/libtheoraenc: Check for av_malloc failure
• avcodec/dcadec: Check active_bands
• avcodec/dcadec: Check scale table index
• avcodec/sonic: check memory allocations
• avcodec/shorten: More complete pred_order check
• avcodec/shorten: Check skip_bytes()
• avcodec/shorten: Fix code depending on signed overflow…
• avcodec/proresdec2: Reset slice_count on deallocation
• ffmpeg_opt: Fix -timestamp parsing
• avcodec/dcadec: Check subsubframes
• avcodec/dcadec: Check nchans
• avcodec/on2avc: Check run more carefully
• swr: fix alignment issue caused by 8ch sse functions
• avcodec/jpeg2000dec: fix boolean operator
• avcodec/hevc_ps: Check vps_num_hrd_parameters
• avcodec/hevc_ps: More completely check vps_num_layer_sets
• avcodec/hevc: Check num_entry_point_offsets
• avcodec/hevc: Check offset_len
• avcodec/hevc_sei: Check num_sps_ids_minus1 value
• avcodec/vqavideo: Check chunk size
• avformat/hevc: Check cpb_cnt_minus1
• avformat/nutdec: Fix use of uinitialized value
• avformat/rtpenc_jpeg: Check remaining buffer size for SOS
• See changelog for full detals

 

Install FFmpeg 2.6.3 “Grothendieck” on Ubuntu or Linux Mint via PPA :

to install - update FFmpeg 2.6.3 “Grothendieck” on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems via PPA, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:samrog131/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg-real
sudo ln -sf /opt/ffmpeg/bin/ffmpeg /usr/bin/ffmpeg

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.