
First make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date by running these following apt-get commands in the terminal. Install FFmpeg on Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty Zapus I will show you through the step by step installation FFmpeg on an Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty Zapus server. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get root privileges. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. In this tutorial i will show you the easy way to install ffmpeg and ffmpeg-php (php extension).



There’s also a great PHP package called ffmpeg-php that allows for easy use of FFmpeg from inside PHP scripts. FFmpeg is a cross-platform solution for streaming audio and video as well as recording and conversion.
