FFmpeg 3.1.5 Release, Install on Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.10 and Linux Mint 18 sarah

FFmpeg is an open source utility that allows Linux, Windows and Mac OS X users to playback, convert, record and stream video and audio files. It is used in almost all Linux distributions. It is a command-line software that can encode, decode, demux, mux, transcode, stream, play and filter almost any media format available. FFmpeg uses libavcodec, the most advanced audio/video codec library for Linux and UNIX-like systems.

Features at a glance
The software is comprised of a multimedia streaming server for live broadcasts, a simple media player based on the powerful SDL library, a simple multimedia stream analyzer, a library that contains functions for simplifying programming, and another library that includes muxers and demuxers for multimedia container formats. Additionally, it comes with support for input and output devices, media filters, a library for performing highly optimized image scaling and color space/pixel format conversion operations, and a library for performing highly optimized audio rematrixing, resampling and sample format conversions.

Approximately every 3 months the FFmpeg project makes a new major release. Between major releases point releases will appear that add important bug fixes but no new features. Note that these releases are intended for distributors and system integrators. Users that wish to compile from source themselves are strongly encouraged to consider using the development branch (see above), this is the only version on which FFmpeg developers actively work. The release branches only cherry pick selected changes from the development branch, which therefore receives much more and much faster bug fixes such as additional features and security patches.

FFmpeg 3.1.5 "Laplace"
3.1.5 was released on 2016-10-22. It is the latest stable FFmpeg release from the 3.1 release branch, which was cut from master on 2016-06-26.

It includes the following library versions:

libavutil      55. 28.100libavcodec     57. 48.101libavformat    57. 41.100libavdevice    57.  0.101libavfilter     6. 47.100libavresample   3.  0.  0libswscale      4.  1.100libswresample   2.  1.100libpostproc    54.  0.100

How to Install FFMPEG 3.1.5 on Ubuntu and Linux Mint Derivative System

To Install FFMPEG 3.1.5 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems , open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

Download FFMPEG

wget http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-3.1.5.tar.bz2

Extract :

sudo tar jxf ffmpeg-3.1.5.tar.bz2

Change Directory and Compile Source :

cd ffmpeg-3.1.5

./configure --disable-yasm

sudo make

Install FFMPEG 3.1.1

sudo make install

Cek for Manual FFMPEG

man ffmpeg

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.