Installing FFmpeg for ROSI-LTS

How to install FFmpeg on Windows, macOS, and Linux for ROSI-LTS.

ROSI-LTS only: Main ROSI bundles FFmpeg; this guide applies to ROSI-LTS, which requires FFmpeg in your PATH.

FFmpeg 7 or newer is recommended. Older versions may work but are not supported.

Windows

Quickest option:

bash

winget install ffmpeg

Or with Chocolatey: choco install ffmpeg-full

Verify: ffmpeg -version

bash

brew install ffmpeg

Verify: ffmpeg -version

bash

sudo apt install ffmpeg -y

bash

sudo dnf install ffmpeg -y

bash

sudo pacman -S ffmpeg -y

Verify on any distro: ffmpeg -version