FFmpeg

camera.ui comes with ffmpeg-for-homebridge which ensures that the right FFmpeg is automatically installed for the system. It can happen that the installation fails. In this case read on below.

Mac OS

To install this utility on OS X, just head over to ffmpeg.org, download the release relative to your Macs architecture. Then put the application into an accessible directory and run it from command line. Another way is using HomeBrew

brew install ffmpeg --with-fdk-aac --with-ffplay --with-libass --with-libvorbis --with-libvpx --with-rtmpdump --with-openh264 --with-tools

Windows

To install this utility on Windows, head over to ffmpeg.org and follow the download link, using your architecture. Then place the downloaded software into an accessible directory and run from command line.

Linux

To install this utility on Unix, just follow the instructions found at ffmpeg.org

To check if ffmpeg is installed correctly and see a list of available commands try running the following command in the command line:

ffmpeg -help