sudo apt-get install ffmpeg -yĪfter it finished installing, I was able to run the following command with the 192.168.0.16 address being my desktop computer. I did a quick install of ffmpeg on my Pi with the following command, allowing it to install all the requirements, adding up to almost 126 new packages and 56MB that needed to be downloaded and installed. I use VLC on my desktop machine for similar reasons. I’ve used FFMPEG for years as it handles almost any kind of video or audio I can throw at it. This is especially important because the camera itself may not be properly focused after installation in the case, and the only way to easily focus the camera is with a video stream allowing you to make small adjustments and see them nearly real time. I don’t have a monitor connected to the Raspberry, and explicitly did not install the desktop version of the operating system.

I wanted a quick and dirty method to test my camera module installation on my Raspberry Pi ZeroW installation.

How to install ffmpeg raspberry pi