<strong>The public beta of <a href="/ubuntu-19-04-release-date-planned-features-updated" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Ubuntu 19.04 (opens in a new tab)">Ubuntu 19.04</a> ‘Disco Dingo’, the next major update to the hugely popular Linux-based Ubuntu operating system, is now available to download.</strong>

The launch of the beta, the only one planned in the current development cycle, will allow enthusiasts and developers to help test the latest update ahead of its stable release next month.

Not long now; the final, battle-hardened version of Ubuntu 19.04 will be released on April 18th — if you haven’t already, do pop the date in your diary!
<h2>Ubuntu 19.04 Beta Download</h2>
You probably want to know what’s new, right?

We recap all the key Ubuntu 19.04 features &amp; release details in a separate post. Rather than repeat all of that here (again), I recommend you go check that post out for the full skinny.
<h4>A Sizeable, if Sedate, Update</h4>
Ubuntu 19.04 is a sizeable update — literally: the ISO is larger than usual at 2.1GB— if also a somewhat sedate one.

That’s not to say there aren’t new things to play with, but anyone who’s toyed with or run Ubuntu 18.10 will find there’s little material difference on offer here.

GNOME 3.32 delivers a bevvy of performance enhancements, keenly felt throughout the entirety of the OS.

Nautilus is now the latest version, meaning features like file favourites and elegant resizing are on offer.

A new desktop icons extension comes pre-enabled by default to replace the functionality Nautilus lost, namely on-desktop icon support.

Broadly speaking the desktop icons extension works okay, but there are some niggling issues.

For instance, you can’t (currently) drag and drop files from the desktop on to an app to open or move it. There are several minor regressions like this which, one hopes, will be resolved in future updates to the extension.

Updated apps on offer include the latest versions of Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, and LibreOffice.
<ul>
 	<li><strong>GNOME Shell 3.32</strong></li>
 	<li><strong>Ubuntu Linux Kernel 5.0</strong></li>
 	<li><strong>Mesa 19.0</strong> <strong>available</strong></li>
 	<li><strong>Yaru icon set update</strong></li>
 	<li><strong>New Desktop Icons extension</strong></li>
 	<li><strong>Updated apps</strong></li>
 	<li><strong><a href="/the-official-ubuntu-19-04-wallpaper-is-revealed/">New wallpaper</a></strong></li>
</ul>
And that’s more or less it!
<h3>Downloads</h3>
<p class="has-text-color has-background has-very-light-gray-color has-vivid-red-background-color"><strong>Caution</strong>: We don’t recommend you install the Ubuntu 19.04 Beta on your main computer. Beta software may have stability issues or contain bugs and quirks that are yet to be fixed. Stay safe and use live media, a test partition or virtual machine to try it out.</p>
You can download the Ubuntu 19.04 beta ISO from the official Ubuntu release server, linked below:
<p class="wp-block-omg-buttons ta-center"><a class="omg-button omg-button--orange-ef" href="http://releases.ubuntu.com/disco/ubuntu-19.04-beta-desktop-amd64.iso" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span class="omg-button__content">Download Ubuntu 19.04 Beta (64-bit .ISO)</span></a></p>
You can use a tool like <a href="https://etcher.io/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Etcher (opens in a new tab)">Etcher</a> to flash the ISO image to a USB stick to boot Ubuntu 19.04 beta (or install it) on your computer.

For a complete look at all of the new features you can expect to see in Ubuntu 19.04 next month, make sure to check out our full Ubuntu 19.04 roundup.

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Ubuntu 19.04 Beta is Now Available to Download

<strong>FFmpeg</strong> is a cross-platform solution for streaming audio and video as well as recording and conversion. It’s also useful to convert multimedia files between various formats. FFmpeg includes libavcodec audio/video codec library in it.

This tutorial will help you to install FFmpeg on Ubuntu Ubuntu 18.04 &amp; 16.04 LTS systems with easy steps.
<h2 class="heading1">Step 1 – Setup FFmpeg PPA</h2>
FFmpeg 4 is the latest available version for installation on Ubuntu. To install the latest version, you need to configure PPA on your system. Execute below command to add FFmpeg PPA on Ubuntu system.
<pre>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/ffmpeg-4
</pre>
<h2 class="heading1">Step 2 – Install FFmpeg on Ubuntu</h2>
After enabling the PPA, Lets exec below commands to install ffmpeg on Ubuntu system. This will also install many packages for the dependencies.
<pre>sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
</pre>
<h2 class="heading1">Step 3 – Check FFmpeg Version</h2>
After successfully install FFmpeg, let’s check the version installed on the system.
<pre>ffmpeg -version

ffmpeg version 4.0.3-1~18.04.york0 Copyright (c) 2000-2018 the FFmpeg developers
built with gcc 7 (Ubuntu 7.3.0-27ubuntu1~18.04)
...
</pre>
<h2 class="heading1">Step 4 – FFmpeg Basic Commands</h2>
Here is the list of the ffmepg basic command options used with ffmpeg command line tool.
<div class="pretty-label">FFmpeg command examples</div>
<pre><strong>ffmpeg -version: </strong>show version
<strong>ffmpeg -formats: </strong>show available formats
<strong>ffmpeg -codecs: </strong>show available codecs
<strong>ffmpeg -decoders: </strong>show available decoders
<strong>ffmpeg -encoders: </strong>show available encoders
<strong>ffmpeg -bsfs: </strong>show available bit stream filters
<strong>ffmpeg -protocols: </strong>show available protocols
<strong>ffmpeg -filters: </strong>show available filters
<strong>ffmpeg -pix_fmts: </strong>show available pixel formats
<strong>ffmpeg -layouts: </strong>show standard channel layouts
<strong>ffmpeg -sample_fmts: </strong>show available audio sample formats</pre>
<a href="https://www.ffmpeg.org/documentation.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Click here</a> to read more about ffmpeg on its official site.
<h2 class="heading1">Step 5 – Basic Examples</h2>
Below are some examples of uses of ffmpeg command line.

<strong>Reduce .mov File Size:</strong>
<pre>ffmpeg -i in.mov -c:v libx264 -c:a copy -crf 20 out.mov
</pre>
<strong>Convert .move To .mp4</strong>
<pre>ffmpeg -i in.mov -vcodec copy -acodec aac -strict experimental -ab 128k out.mp4</pre>

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