FFmpeg 2.4 “Fresnel” – is the leading multimedia framework, cross-platform solution that is used to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play any audio or video files. It includes libavcodec – the leading audio/video codec library. The most important thing in this release is the major version bump of the libraries. This means that this release is neither ABI-compatible nor fully API-compatible. But on the other hand it is aligned with the Libav release series, and will as a result probably end up being maintained for a long time.

FFMPeg 2.4.4 update

• The new field mime_type was added to AVProbeData, which can cause crashes, if it is not initialized
• Some deprecated functions were removed
• The avfilter_graph_parse function was made compatible with Libav
• The Matroska demuxer now outputs verbatim ASS packets
• Added clip() function in eval
• dctdnoiz filter now uses a block size of 8×8 instead of 16×16 by default
• vismv option is deprecated in favor of the codecview filter
• libmodplug is now detected through pkg-config
• HTML documentation generation through texi2html is deprecated in
• favor of makeinfo/texi2any
• ICY metadata are now requested by default with the HTTP protocol

Install FFMpeg 2.4.2 on Ubuntu 14.04 & Ubuntu 14.10

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:samrog131/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg-real

sudo ln -sf /opt/ffmpeg/bin/ffmpeg /usr/bin/ffmpeg