Query about ffmpeg 8

[Bret Busby]

On 3/9/25 17:23, Bo Berglund wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 19:42:26 +0800, Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:
> 
>> As a hearing impaired person, this is important to me, and yt-dlp now
>> returns an error from youtube, that apparently now, persistently blocks
>> downloading of subtitle files;
> 
> You might have a too old version of yt-dlp on your system.
> And the system maintaineer does not update the version to what you need....
> 
> I ran into that numerous times until I decided to get the yt-dlp files directly
> from the developer site.
> This is from my notes how I did it:
> 
> ---------------------------
> The best way to get the latest version of yt-dlp is to download it directly from
> GitHub as follows:
> Link: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases
> 
> Select the proper platform to download and use wget to retrieve it:
> Example for Linux (Ubuntu) on AMD/Intel CPU:
> wget https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/download/2025.06.09/yt-dlp_linux
> 
> The file will be named yt-dlp_linux and you need to set its execution flag
> before use:
> chmod +x yt-dlp_linux
> 
> It can be symlinked to the user's bin dir:
> 
> ln -sf $HOME/projects/ytdlp/yt-dlp_linux $HOME/bin/yt-dlp
> 
> Then it will be used instead of the apt installed version so the most recent is
> available.
> You will need to regularly update it manually of course but you will not be
> limited to the distribution release schedule.

I have just also found, and applied

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tomtomtom/yt-dlp    # Add ppa repo to apt
sudo apt update                                 # Update package list
sudo apt install yt-dlp                         # Install yt-dlp

as shown at
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Installation
-> APT, which took the installed version up to date, from

"
sudo yt-dlp -U
[sudo] password for bret:
Current version: stable at 2025.07.21 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Latest version: stable at 2025.08.27 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp
ERROR: As yt-dlp has been installed via apt, you should use that to 
update.  If you're on a stable release, also check backports.
"

In that context, apparently, what I now need to do, rather than running

sudo yt-dlp -U

to update it, is, from, the cited github wiki page,

"
sudo apt update
sudo apt install yt-dlp
"

which, I should do before using yt-dlp, on each day that I use it. That 
is, involving the use of the ppa repository.

My ffmpeg version is unchanged, at 7.4.x, but, the yt-dlp version is 
updated to the latest stable version, and, I have just downloaded and 
watched a significant (to me) video with subtitles, so, thank you; 
whilst I may not have used your particular method for doing it, updating 
the version of yt-dlp from outside the ubuntu repository, brought me the 
latest stable version of yt-dlp, which overcame the problem that I was 
experiencing.

..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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