So it’s up to you, get it as it is without going through Apple crap or accept their conditions and get the full package. This short tutorial will help you install ffmpeg on Mac, which is luckily a lot simpler The easiest way to install ffmpeg is to use HomeBrew a package manager for Mac. This because you need to compile ffmpeg from source. I previously wrote an article how to install ffmpeg on the Raspberry Pi. Please check this post on how to get it (coming soon.) You can install ffmpeg quite easily thanks to homebrew by opening a terminal and run:Īnyway a few components are missing from that package, like ffplay which is a great too to preview the scripts before write to disk.īut to get those additions you need to install Xcode, which has copyright, Terms of Use, and this and that by the lovely Apple…

Please refer to this post on how and why to install HomeBrew (a command-line package manager). ffmpeg -f avfoundation -i '1:0' Screen.mov Note that the '1:0' is ' 1 Capture screen 0: 0 Soundflower (2ch)' I suspect that the reason your audio doesn't sound good is due to a bit depth discrepency.

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