The Codec Support section in that tutorial describes the limitations of the FFmpeg shipped with the language and shows how installing the full version of FFmpeg gets you better support for audio and video codecs. Details and examples showing how to import and export video files can be found in the Importing & Exporting Video tutorial. To read from and write to video files, video functionality uses media libraries provided by operating systems as well as a limited version of FFmpeg that is shipped with the language and can be immediately used. Video object and video processing functions were introduced in Wolfram Language 12.1. Let's begin with a recap of why this is important. Here I explain some details on how this can be done on Linux. In an earlier community post, Piotr explained how installing FFmpeg can improve codec support in the Wolfram Language and how to do it on Windows.

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