FFmpeg is a powerful multimedia framework that provides a command-line tool and libraries for dealing with audio, video, and other multimedia files. It is completely free and a open -source software that can perform encoding, decoding, transcoding, streaming, filtering, muxing, demuxing and etc.

The following steps are used to install Ffmpeg on ubuntu:

Step 1: Install FFmpeg
FFmpeg is a packages by default is in Ubuntu. These packages can be installed by using the apt package manager. The following command line is used to install FFmpeg on Ubuntu 22.04

$ sudo apt install  ffmpeg

Press ‘Y’ to continue
when the command prompt shows
do you want to continue? [Y/n] y

Step 2: Verify installation
To verify the successful installation of Ffmpeg, use the following command.

$ ffmpeg -version

Step 3: Encoders & Decoders
The following command is used to find out the available encoders and decoders of Ffmpeg.

$ ffmpeg -encoders
$ ffmpeg -decoders

That’s it! You have successfully installed FFmpeg on your Ubuntu system. You can now use FFmpeg to manipulate and work with multimedia files from the command line.