This is a 3rd party tap for Homebrew. It provides a formula for ffmpeg which includes options for enabling additional features and libraries.
Contents:
In order to use this tap, you need to install Homebrew.
Then, to run a default installation, run:
brew tap homebrew-ffmpeg/ffmpeg
brew install homebrew-ffmpeg/ffmpeg/ffmpeg
Note: If you already have ffmpeg installed from Homebrew core, you will receive an error. You need to first run brew uninstall ffmpeg before you can use this tap.
To see the list of supported options for this formula, run:
brew options homebrew-ffmpeg/ffmpeg/ffmpeg
Then, you can run:
brew install homebrew-ffmpeg/ffmpeg/ffmpeg --with-<option1> --with-<option2> ...
If you really wish to install all the available options, you can run:
brew install homebrew-ffmpeg/ffmpeg/ffmpeg $(brew options homebrew-ffmpeg/ffmpeg/ffmpeg --compact)
Note that this may install libraries for which you need extra SDKs installed, such as --with-decklink, or libraries which have to be installed before running the formula, such as --with-chromaprint.
FFmpeg recommends installing the latest Git master version over a release. This formula builds the latest release by default, but you can install the latest Git version by adding the --HEAD option:
brew install homebrew-ffmpeg/ffmpeg/ffmpeg --HEAD
Please note that we don't generally provide support HEAD builds, since they may cause issues with other Homebrew-supplied formulae.
To update Homebrew and upgrade the formula to the most recent stable release:
brew update && brew upgrade homebrew-ffmpeg/ffmpeg/ffmpeg
Or, if you are using the HEAD version and want to update to the latest commit:
brew update && brew upgrade homebrew-ffmpeg/ffmpeg/ffmpeg --fetch-HEAD
This formula installs the following libraries by default:
| Dependency | Description |
|---|---|
libaom |
AV1 encoder |
fontconfig |
Font access library |
freetype |
Freetype font engine |
frei0r |
frei0r filters |
lame |
LAME MP3 encoder |
libass |
ASS subtitle support |
libvorbis |
Vorbis encoder |
libvpx |
VP8 and VP9 encoder |
opus |
Opus encoder |
rtmpdump |
RTMP dumping support |
sdl2 |
Simple DirectMedia Layer |
snappy |
Snappy compression support |
theora |
Theora encoder |
x264 |
x264 H.264 encoder |
x265 |
x265 HEVC encoder |
xz |
XZ compression support |
This formula features the following libraries optionally:
| Dependency | Description | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
chromaprint |
Chromaprint audio fingerprinting library | See the workaround in the Troubleshooting section. |
decklink |
Enable DeckLink support | The DeckLink SDK has to be installed before running the FFmpeg formula. One possibility is to use:brew install amiaopensource/amiaos/decklinksdkIn addition, if you experience difficulties on macOS, make sure you follow these directions. |
fdk-aac |
Fraunhofer FDK AAC library | |
game-music-emu |
Enable Game Music Emu (GME) support | |
jack |
Jack audio device support | |
libbluray |
libbluray support | |
libbs2b |
libbs2b support | |
libcaca |
libcaca support | |
libgsm |
libgsm support | |
libmodplug |
Enable module/tracker files as inputs via libmodplug | |
libopenmpt |
Enable module/tracker files as inputs via libopenmpt | |
librist |
RIST support | |
librsvg |
SVG files as inputs via librsvg | |
libsoxr |
soxr resample library | |
libssh |
SFTP protocol via libssh | |
libvidstab |
vid.stab support for video stabilization | |
libvmaf |
VMAF video quality metric | |
libxml2 |
libxml2 library | |
libzvbi |
Enable decoding of DVB teletext pages and DVB teletext subtitles | The ZVBI library has to be installed before running the FFmpeg formula. It can be obtained from this tap via brew tap lescanauxdiscrets/tap && brew install lescanauxdiscrets/tap/zvbi. |
opencore-amr |
Opencore AMR NR/WB audio format | |
openh264 |
OpenH264 library | |
openjpeg |
JPEG 2000 image format | |
openssl |
SSL support | |
rav1e |
AV1 encoding via librav1e | |
svt-av1 |
AV1 encoding via libsvt-av1 | |
rtmpdump |
rtmpdump support | |
rubberband |
rubberband library | |
speex |
speex support | |
srt |
SRT library | |
tesseract |
tesseract OCR engine | |
two-lame |
two-lame support | |
webp |
libwebp to encode WEBP images | |
xvid |
xvid support | |
zeromq |
libzeromq to receive commands sent through a libzeromq client | |
zimg |
z.lib zimg library |
In general, please note that we only provide support for current macOS versions that still receive security updates. Beta or pre-release versions as well as legacy versions are not supported.
When installing a piece of SOFTWARE which is using this FFmpeg distribution, then you may get the following error:
==> Installing dependencies for SOFTWARE: ffmpeg
Error: ffmpeg is already installed from homebrew-ffmpeg/ffmpeg!
Please `brew uninstall ffmpeg` first."
Here is a workaround:
brew uninstall ffmpeg
brew install SOFTWARE
brew uninstall --ignore-dependencies ffmpeg
brew install homebrew-ffmpeg/ffmpeg/ffmpeg --with-YOUR-OPTIONS
To report issues, please file an issue on GitHub. Please include the full command line you have tested and the full terminal output you got with. Please note that we will only be able to help with issues that are exclusive to this tap and for OS which are officially supported.
If the problem is reproducible with the homebrew-core version of ffmpeg, please file it on their tracker.
- Reto Kromer (
@retokromer) - Werner Robitza (
@slhck)