Installing FFmpeg on macOS Catalina (Updated Late 2020)

welcome i have a previous video on installing ffmpeg on mac os catalina without using mac ports but things have changed since i made that video earlier this year so i wanted to make an updated video so in order to install ffmpeg you want to go to safari so i'll open that up and then go to ffmpeg.org and then click on download and you want to click on the apple logo here and it says static builds for mac os 64-bit i'll click on that that'll take us to this evermeet.cx site and this is where things change you used to be able to download one file that had the three applications in it which are ffmpeg ff probe and ffplay and now they're all separated out so there are two types of builds we can download we can do the release builds or the snapshot builds the release builds could be considered more stable so i tend to download the stable builds but i'm going to do the snapshots for this video the snapshots tend to have more fixes in them but could have some instability but they're likely very stable so i'll scroll down here a bit and you can see the ffmpeg and it has this huge string after it and then if i go down a little more you see we have ffmpeg 4.3.1 so the one that has the smaller number on it is a release and this larger one is the snapshot and you can see that on the different software here's ff probe ffplay this also has ff server but this has been deprecated you can see the last compile date on this is 2018 so i'll scroll back up here i'll click on download a zip i'll allow that i'll go down to the ff probe i'll click download a zip and i'll go down to ffplay download a zip so now you have to download them separately so go to my downloads folder they should be downloaded in just a minute here okay there we go so this automatically unzipped them if it hadn't you can double click on it and it should unzip them so i can close this website now next i'll open up a terminal you can go into your applications folder and then utilities and then open up terminal or you can hit command space and just start typing terminal and hit enter and then the terminal will come up so i need to move into the downloads folder so i'll type cd space tilde forward slash downloads i'll hit enter i'll type ls here it says terminal would like to access your files and downloads i'll hit ok i'll clear my screen here let's do that again okay so we have ffmpeg ffplay and ff probe so i want to move these into usr local bin so i'll type ls space forward slash usr forward slash local forward slash bin i'll hit enter and it says no such file or directory and i guess i should mention that i'll put a link in the description my website where i'll have the commands i'm typing out so you don't have to copy them from the screen you can copy them from my website so this directory doesn't exist i need to create it so i'll type sudo which is sudo space mkdir space dash p space forward slash usr forward slash local forward slash bin and i'll hit enter it'll ask me for my password i'll type that in there we go so this created a directory called bin when you use p here this will create other directories so if the local directory doesn't exist it will create that and bin it'll do as many as you want you could add 10 on here and it would create them all okay so i'll clear my screen so now i want to copy the files i downloaded so i'll type sudo space cp space ff asterisk space forward slash usr forward slash local forward slash bin i'll hit enter that will copy those files i can type ls space forward slash usr forward slash local forward slash bin and you can see the files are there i'll clear my screen next we need to remove these files from quarantine so i'll type sudo space xattr space dash d r space com dot apple dot quarantine space for slash u s r forward slash local forward slash bin forward slash ff asterisk i'll hit enter okay so next we'll check the path so i'll type echo space dollar sign path in uppercase i'll hit enter and we want to make sure the path has this usr local bin so if that doesn't have that there what you need to do is type cd to go to your home directory i'll clear my screen here type touch space tilde forward slash dot r zshrc i'll hit enter next i'll type open space dash e space tilde forward slash dot z s h r c so what open e will do will open up this file in textedit next we want to type path plus equals four slash usr forward slash local forward slash bin i'll save this and i'll close it i did command s command w to do that and then i want to load this file so let's look at the echo path again and now i want to load this i'll type in source space dot zsh rc i'll hit enter now i will echo the path again okay and you can see it added this usr local bin now it was already on here so that was unnecessary but if you don't have this at the beginning it will add it on at the end so if you're using the bash shell those have different instructions i'll put a link below to a previous tutorial i did and in that tutorial it tells you how to do that so i'm going to remove the zshrc file and if you want to know what shell you're running you can type echo space dollar sign shell and i have z shell there clear my screen so now i can run ffmpeg ff play and ff probe on the command line so i'm not going to go over the usage of ffmpeg in this video but i'll put a link below to a page on my website where i have a bunch of different tasks that you can do with ffmpeg they're almost like recipes so that's all i'm going to cover in this video if you have any questions please leave them in the comments if you like this video please click like if you haven't subscribed to my channel i'd appreciate if you could do that and thanks for watching until next time goodbye

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Length: 6min 57sec (417 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 22 2020