ffmpeg@2.8 (deprecated)

Disable date: 2027-01-17

Install command:
brew install ffmpeg@2.8

Formerly known as: ffmpeg28

Play, record, convert, and stream audio and video

https://ffmpeg.org/

License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/ffmpeg@2.8.json

Formula code: ffmpeg@2.8.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon
tahoe
sequoia
sonoma
macOS on
Intel
sonoma
Linux ARM64
x86_64

Current versions:

stable 2.8.22

Other versions:

ffmpeg@7 7.1.3 Play, record, convert, and stream audio and video
ffmpeg@6 6.1.4 Play, record, convert, and stream audio and video
ffmpeg@5 5.1.8 Play, record, convert, and stream audio and video
ffmpeg@4 4.4.6 Play, record, convert, and stream audio and video

Revision: 8

Keg-only

Depends on:

fontconfig 2.17.1 XML-based font configuration API for X Windows
freetype 2.14.3 Software library to render fonts
frei0r 3.0.0 Minimalistic plugin API for video effects
lame 3.100 High quality MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) encoder
libass 0.17.4 Subtitle renderer for the ASS/SSA subtitle format
libogg 1.3.6 Ogg Bitstream Library
libvo-aacenc 0.1.3 VisualOn AAC encoder library
libvorbis 1.3.7 Vorbis general audio compression codec
libvpx 1.16.0 VP8/VP9 video codec
opencore-amr 0.1.6 Audio codecs extracted from Android open source project
openssl@3 3.6.2 Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit
opus 1.6.1 Audio codec
rtmpdump 2.6 Tool for downloading RTMP streaming media
sdl12-compat 1.2.76 SDL 1.2 compatibility layer that uses SDL 2.0 behind the scenes
snappy 1.2.2 Compression/decompression library aiming for high speed
speex 1.2.1 Audio codec designed for speech
theora 1.2.0 Open video compression format
x264 r3222 H.264/AVC encoder
x265 4.1 H.265/HEVC encoder
xvid 1.3.7 High-performance, high-quality MPEG-4 video library
xz 5.8.3 General-purpose data compression with high compression ratio

Depends on when building from source:

pkgconf 2.5.1 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit
texi2html 5.0 Convert TeXinfo files to HTML
yasm 1.3.0 Modular BSD reimplementation of NASM

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