homebrew-ffmpeg

This is a 3^rd party tap for Homebrew. It provides a formula for ffmpeg which includes options for enabling additional features and libraries.

Contents:

• Installation and usage
  • Installing with options
  • Installing latest Git version (HEAD)
• Updating
• Included libraries
• Troubleshooting
• Issues
• Maintainers

Installation and usage

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.

Installing with options

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.

Installing latest Git version (HEAD)

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.

Updating

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

Included libraries

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	There is a cyclic dependency issue. See the workaround in the Troubleshooting section.
decklink	DeckLink support	The DeckLink SDK has to be installed before running the FFmpeg formula. One possibility is to use: brew install amiaopensource/amiaos/decklinksdk In addition, if you experience difficulties on macOS, make sure you follow these directions.
dvd	DVD-Video demuxer powered by libdvdnav and libdvdread
fdk-aac	Fraunhofer FDK AAC library
game-music-emu	Game Music Emu (GME) support
jack	Jack audio device support
jpeg-xl	JPEG XL support
libaribcaption	Handling of ARIB STD-B24 based broadcast captions
libaribb24	Decoding ARIB/ISDB captions
libbluray	Blu-Ray Disc support
libbs2b	Bauer stereophonic-to-binaural DSP library
libcaca	Colour ASCII Art Library
libflite	Text to speech synthesis	Flite has to be installed before running the FFmpeg formula. This is not supported directly via Homebrew. See this issue for some installation options.
libgsm	GSM 06.10 lossy speech compression
libmodplug	Module/tracker files as inputs via libmodplug
libopenmpt	Module/tracker files as inputs via libopenmpt
libplacebo	GPU-accelerated image/video processing primitives
librist	Reliable Internet Stream Transport
librsvg	SVG files as inputs
libsoxr	The SoX resampling library
libssh	Support SFTP protocol
libvidstab	Video stabilization library
libvmaf	VMAF video quality metric
libxml2	XML parser and toolkit
libzvbi	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.
openal-soft	OpenAL (Open Audio Library) for macOS targets
opencore-amr	Opencore AMR NR/WB audio format
openh264	OpenH264 library
openjpeg	JPEG 2000 image format
openssl	SSL support
openvino	OpenVINO for Deep Neural Network based filters
rav1e	AV1 encoding
svt-av1	Scalable Video Technology for AV1 (encoder and decoder)
rtmpdump	Dumping RTMP streams
rubberband	Audio time-stretching and pitch-shifting
speex	speex codec
srt	Secure Reliable Transport library
tensorflow	TensorFlow for Deep Neural Network based filters	You need to train your own model or source pre-trained models from elsewhere (modelzoo, openmodeldb or similar). For details see the notes in the pull request
tesseract	An Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine
two-lame	MPEG Audio Layer 2 (MP2) encoder
webp	Encode WEBP images
xvid	XviD support (MPEG-4 Part 2 Encoder)
zeromq	Receive commands sent through a libzeromq client
zimg	Image conversion library

Troubleshooting

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

Issues

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.

Maintainers

• Reto Kromer (@retokromer)
• Werner Robitza (@slhck)