FFmpeg

FFmpeg is required for thumbnail previews and playback features on audio and video files. FFmpeg is a free Open Source project dedicated to the handling of multimedia (video, audio, etc) files. For more information, see their official website at ffmpeg.org.

Installation on Windows

Prebuilt Binaries

Pre-built binaries from trusted sources are available on the FFmpeg website. To install:

1. Download 7z or zip file and extract it (right click > Extract All)
2. Move extracted contents to a unique folder (i.e; c:\ffmpeg or c:\Program Files\ffmpeg)

3. Add FFmpeg to your PATH

   1. Go to "Edit the system environment variables"
   2. Under "User Variables", select "Path" then edit
   3. Click new and add <Your folder>\bin (e.g; c:\ffmpeg\bin or c:\Program Files\ffmpeg\bin)
   4. Click okay

Package Managers

FFmpeg is also available from:

1. WinGet (winget install ffmpeg)
2. Scoop (scoop install main/ffmpeg)
3. Chocolatey (choco install ffmpeg-full)

Installation on Mac

Homebrew

FFmpeg is available via Homebrew and can be installed via:

brew install ffmpeg

Installation on Linux

Package Managers

FFmpeg may be installed by default on some Linux distributions, but if not, it is available via your distro's package manager of choice:

1. Debian/Ubuntu (sudo apt install ffmpeg)
2. Fedora (sudo dnf install ffmpeg-free)
3. Arch (sudo pacman -S ffmpeg)

Help

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