How to install ffmpeg 3.0 on Ubuntu 15.10

Question

ffmpeg 3.0 was released in February, it solves an important bug so I want to use it.

Is there any easy way to install ffmpeg on Ubuntu Wily, for instance a PPA?

What I tried:

Xenial only has 2.8.6, just like Debian.
The static build at http://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/ are compiled without pulse support, and I did not manage to run it with ALSA
The PPA https://launchpad.net/~mc3man/+archive/ubuntu/trusty-media is only for Trusty, and advises against using it for other versions
I tried compiling from source, for some reason the resulting ffmpeg records in much lower quality, videos are pixelated (console output).

You could take a look here, it provides the ffmpeg binaries that use shared libs. It appears to install those libs to a non standard location so not to interfere with the default repo shared ffmpeg libs. launchpad.net/~djcj/+archive/ubuntu/hybrid — doug, Mar 24, 2016 at 10:42
You should show your command and complete console output from the ffmpeg that you compiled. — llogan, Mar 24, 2016 at 17:27
@doug: launchpad.net/~djcj/+archive/ubuntu/hybrid/+files/… looks promising but it says Dependency is not satifiable: libkvazaar3. — Nicolas Raoul, Mar 25, 2016 at 2:00
@NicolasRaoul Your ffmpeg is missing support for libx264, so it is using the "mpeg4" fallback which has not-so-good defaults. If you want to re-compile see FFmpeg Wiki: Compile FFmpeg on Ubuntu. — llogan, Mar 25, 2016 at 4:10

TheOdd · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-09 20:20:12Z

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I found this as a working solution for 16.04.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/ffmpeg-3
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install ffmpeg

More information can be found here.

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answered Dec 8, 2016 at 18:32

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Nicolas Raoul · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-12 08:35:38Z

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The only solution as of April 2016 is to compile by yourself.

Be sure to run the procedure described at the "libx265" paragraph too, not doing it would result in bad quality video files.

answered Apr 12, 2016 at 8:35

Nicolas Raoul

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There's now a way to update it easily via apt as per @mtasic's answer.
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