Currently, ffmpeg from the repository only supports the simpler deshake filter, but does not support the better vidstab filters.

You have a few options to get vidstab support: compile or use a PPA.

Compiling

This is the best option if you also want to customize your ffmpeg or use the latest version.

First you will have to compile libvidstab or use the libvidstab-dev package. Currently only 19.04 Disco Dingo and newer provides this package. Alternatively, 16.04 Xenial Xerus users can use the libvidstab-dev package from the mc3man PPA).

To compile libvidstab:

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake

$ mkdir ~/ffmpeg_sources ~/ffmpeg_build

$ cd ~/ffmpeg_sources

$ wget -O https://github.com/georgmartius/vid.stab/archive/master.zip

$ unzip master.zip

$ cd vid.stab-master

$ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=~/ffmpeg_build .

$ make

$ make install

Now follow How to Compile FFmpeg on Ubuntu. When you get to the step where ffmpeg is configured then add --enable-libvidstab to the list of configure options.

mc3man PPA

FFmpeg current release plus git PPA for 16.04 Xenial Xerus:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/ffmpeg-test

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg-static

Now run ffmpeg2 (note the "2").

Usage

See the vid.stab usage instructions.

Also see

• deshake, vidstabdetect, and vidstabtransform FFmpeg filter documentation.