# Media : ffmpeg : Overview
\[ [Source](https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/) | [Docs](https://ffmpeg.org/documentation.html) | [CLI](https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html) | [Man](https://linux.die.net/man/1/ffmpeg) | [Debian](https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ffmpeg) | [Ubuntu](https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ffmpeg) ]
## Installing
```
# from package
$ apt install ffmpeg
# from source
$ wget https://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-7.1.1.tar.xz
$ tar -xzvf ffmpeg-7.1.1.tar.xz
$ cd ffmpeg
$ ./configure
$ make
$ su -c 'make install'
```
#### Contains
```
ffmpeg A command line tool to convert multimedia files between formats.
ffserver A multimedia streaming server for live broadcasts.
ffplay A simple media player based on SDL and the FFmpeg libraries.
ffprobe A simple multimedia stream analyzer.
libavcodec Decoders and encoders for audio/video codecs.
libavdevice Input and output devices for grabbing from and rendering to many common multimedia input/output
software frameworks, including Video4Linux, Video4Linux2, VfW, and ALSA.
libavfilter Media filters.
libavformat Demuxers and muxers for multimedia container formats.
libswresample Highly optimized audio resampling, rematrixing and sample format conversion operations.
libswscale Highly optimized image scaling and color space/pixel format conversion operations.
libavutil Functions for simplifying programming, including random number generators,
data structures, mathematics routines, core multimedia utilities, and much more.
```