ffcvt command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

ffcvt: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ffcvt: command not found

Solutions to ffcvt: command not found

How To Fix ffcvt: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ffcvt is provided by ffcvt package.

ffcvt is:

ffcvt - ffmpeg convert wrapper to make it simple to do high efficiency audio/video compression (Opus/H.265) encoding, and for youtube as well.

The next-generation High Efficiency Video codec, HEVC and VP9 can produce videos visually comparable to libx264’s, but in about half the size; Meanwhile the Opus audio codec is becoming the best thing ever for compressing audio – A 64K Opus audio stream is comparable to mp3 files of 128K to 256K bandwidth. The ffcvt makes use of such fantastic high efficiency audio/video codec/encoding capability while shielding people from the complicated ffmpeg command line option settings, while versatile and powerful enough to allow advanced users to touch every corner of audio/video encoding.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install ffcvt

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install ffcvt.

sudo apt -y install ffcvt

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install ffcvt

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix ffcvt command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.