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FFmpeg is a great little program to help convert more or less any media format. I previously wrote an article how to install ffmpeg on the Raspberry Pi. This short tutorial will help you install ffmpeg on Mac, which is luckily a lot simpler! The easiest way to install ffmpeg is to use HomeBrew a.

Aug 3, 2011 - ffmpegX 0.0.9y-L r2 released for OSX 10.7 to 10.14What's new
Jul 30, 2011 - ffmpegX 0.0.9y-L released for OSX 10.7 'Lion'. What's new
Jan 26, 2008 - ffmpegX 0.0.9y released. What's new
Oct 2, 2006 - ffmpegX 0.0.9x r2 released. What's new
Sep 22, 2006 - Added a new guide: How to encode a movie in h.264 high resolution (640-width) for the iPod
Jul 1, 2006 - ffmpegX 0.0.9w r5 released. What's new
Apr 30, 2006 - The ffmpegX website has moved to a new host and has a new address. Please update all your links to the new URL: http://www.ffmpegX.com/
Apr 27, 2006 - ffmpegX 0.0.9w released. What's new
Apr 27, 2006 - Added a new guide: How to encode a movie in FLV Flash Video format for your website or blog

About ffmpegX:

ffmpegX is a Mac OS X graphic user interface designed to easily operate more than 20 powerful Unix open-source video and audio processing tools includingffmpeg the 'hyper fast video and audio encoder' (http://ffmpeg.sf.net/), mpeg2enc the open-source mpeg-2 encoder and multiplexer (http://mjpeg.sf.net/MacOS/)and mencoder the mpeg-4 encoder with subtitles support(http://sf.net/projects/mplayerosx).

Please note: the ffmpegX project is not associated with the ffmpeg project, and support emails about ffmpegX should not be sent to the ffmpeg project !

• As simple as 1.2.3 : Drop a file, choose a destination format, and click 'Encode'.
• Reads the following input formats: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DIVX, XviD, non-encrypted VOB and VIDEO_TS, Quicktime .MOV, .DV, .WAV, Real Audio, Real Video, H.263, MP4 H.264, PGM, YUV, PPM, AC3, PCM8/16 bits, mulaw/Alaw, WMA-1/2, SUN AU format, MP2, MP3, AAC, 3GP, FPS1, ALAC, and even more formats
• Converts the above formats to DivX, AVI XviD, H.264 MP4, MOV, DV, 3GP, Sony PSP, MP2, MP3, AAC, AC3, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, VCD, CVD, SVCD, KVCD, KSVCD, DVD, KDVD and MPEG-TS with complete control over encoding options.
• Super-fast. Many conversions are faster than realtime. DIVX encoding on a G5 dual is twice as faster as realtime.
• Queue encodings in the ffmpegX Progress window.
• Includes a full-featured universal video player (mplayer) supporting VOB and text subtitles, with choice of fonts, font sizes and international text encodings including Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Greek and more.
• Supports subtitles in VobSub, SubRip, MicroDVD, SubViewer, Sami, VPlayer, RT, SSA, AQTitle, JACOsub and MPsubt formats
• Allows creation of DVD selectable subtitles
• Includes a subtitle converter with OCR from VOB image format to SRT text format.
• Includes a bitrate calculator to control best image quality and target filesize.
• Includes an automatic crop tool.
• Includes aseries of video tools like split, join, fix, mux, demux.
• Compresses a non-encrypted DVD to 4GB without reencoding it.
• Reauthors SVCD as DVD.
• Creates DVD image files from VIDEO_TS folders.
• Converts SRT subtitles to DVD Studio Pro 1.5 format.
• Creates AVI or MPG files with two audio tracks.
• Authorsas VCD or K/XVCD (.bin/.cue files for burning with Toast by dropping the .bin into VCD window).
• Authors as SVCD, CVD or K/XSVCD (two .img files to be burned in Toast under Multitrack XA window).
• Authors as DVD (/DVD/ folder for burning in Toast DVD mode, and .img file for burning in Disk Image app or Toast disk image mode).

Download Ffmpeg For Mac

1. Jul 07, 2016 The ffmpeg installer is commonly called ffmpeg-0.8.tar.gz. The most popular version among ffmpeg for Mac users is 0.8. This Mac download was scanned by our antivirus and was rated as clean. The latest setup package occupies 5.3 MB on disk. This free software for Mac OS X was originally designed by LGPL.
2. FFmpeg is a free and open-source software project consisting of a large suite of libraries and programs for handling video, audio, and other multimedia files and streams. At its core is the FFmpeg program itself, designed for command-line-based processing of video and audio files.It is widely used for format transcoding, basic editing (trimming and concatenation), video scaling, video post.

If you find FFmpeg useful, you are welcome to contribute by donating. More downloading options

Get packages & executable files

FFmpeg only provides source code. Below are some links that provide it already compiled and ready to go.

Get the Sources

You can retrieve the source code through Git by using the command:

FFmpeg has always been a very experimental and developer-driven project. It is a key component in many multimedia projects and has new features added constantly. Development branch snapshots work really well 99% of the time so people are not afraid to use them.

Git Repositories

Since FFmpeg is developed with Git, multiple repositories from developers and groups of developers are available.

Releases

Approximately every 6 months the FFmpeg project makes a new major release. Between major releases point releases will appear that add important bug fixes but no new features. Note that these releases are intended for distributors and system integrators. Users that wish to compile from source themselves are strongly encouraged to consider using the development branch (see above), this is the only version on which FFmpeg developers actively work. The release branches only cherry pick selected changes from the development branch, which therefore receives much more and much faster bug fixes such as additional features and security patches.

FFmpeg 4.3.1 '4:3'

4.3.1 was released on 2020-07-11. It is the latest stable FFmpeg release from the 4.3 release branch, which was cut from master on 2020-06-08.

It includes the following library versions:

Ffmpeg For Mac Mojave

FFmpeg 4.2.4 'Ada'

4.2.4 was released on 2020-07-09. It is the latest stable FFmpeg release from the 4.2 release branch, which was cut from master on 2019-07-21.

It includes the following library versions:

FFmpeg 4.1.6 'al-Khwarizmi'

4.1.6 was released on 2020-07-05. It is the latest stable FFmpeg release from the 4.1 release branch, which was cut from master on 2018-11-02.

It includes the following library versions:

FFmpeg 4.0.6 'Wu'

4.0.6 was released on 2020-07-03. It is the latest stable FFmpeg release from the 4.0 release branch, which was cut from master on 2018-04-16.

It includes the following library versions:

FFmpeg 3.4.8 'Cantor'

3.4.8 was released on 2020-07-04. It is the latest stable FFmpeg release from the 3.4 release branch, which was cut from master on 2017-10-11.

It includes the following library versions:

FFmpeg 3.2.15 'Hypatia'

3.2.15 was released on 2020-07-02. It is the latest stable FFmpeg release from the 3.2 release branch, which was cut from master on 2016-10-26.

It includes the following library versions:

FFmpeg 2.8.17 'Feynman'

2.8.17 was released on 2020-07-07. It is the latest stable FFmpeg release from the 2.8 release branch, which was cut from master on 2015-09-05. Amongst lots of other changes, it includes all changes from ffmpeg-mt, libav master of 2015-08-28, libav 11 as of 2015-08-28.

It includes the following library versions:

Old Releases

Older versions are available at the Old Releases page.