How to get ffmpeg installed on my system?

[Brian Cluff]

Strange... did you get an error while it was installing?

Brian Cluff

On 01/03/2018 12:39 PM, joe at actionline.com wrote:
> Thanks to all who responded,
> but ffmpeg is apparently still not found on my system.
>
> cat workshop2.VOB | ffmpeg -i - workit.mp4
>
> ffmpeg: command not found
>
> This was after I did this:
>
> sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
>
> Then this:
>
> dpkg -l *ffmpeg*
>
> Got this result:
>
> |
> Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
> |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name              Version       Architecture  Description
> +++-=================-=============-=====-=======================================
> ii  ffmpegthumbs      4:4.14.2-0ubu amd64 video thumbnail generator using
> ffmpeg
> ii  gstreamer0.10-ffm 0.10.13-5ubun amd64 FFmpeg plugin for GStreamer
> ii  kffmpegthumbnaile 1.1.0-0ubuntu amd64 video thumbnailer for KDE
> ii  libffmpegthumbnai 2.0.8-2       amd64 shared library for
> ffmpegthumbnailer
> ii  libxine1-ffmpeg   1.1.21-2ubunt amd64 MPEG-related plugins for libxine1
>
>
>
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