How to get ffmpeg v 7.1 or higher?

[Bret Busby]

On 25/9/25 00:53, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 24/9/25 20:28, Bo Berglund wrote:
>> I am running an Ubuntu Server 24.04.3 LTS and it has only this:
>>
>> $ ffmpeg --version
>> ffmpeg version 6.1.1-3ubuntu5+esm4
>>
>> I need version 7.1 or higher in order to use a recently added feature 
>> so can
>> someone here say how I can go about getting it?
>>
>> I haver installed ffmpeg using apt and that gets me the distro version of
>> course. Waiting for new features is no fun so can I somehow similar to 
>> how I
>> could with yt-dlp get a current version on my server?
>>
>> For yt-dlp there was a github releases site where the absolute latest 
>> could be
>> downloaded, is something like that available somewhere also for 
>> ffrmpeg itself
>> (which is part of the yt-dlp program)?
>>
>> Else, how can I get it?
>>
> 
> Is your Ubuntu fully updated?
> 
> I ask this, because I am running Linux Mint Mate 21.3, which uses the 
> Ubuntu 22.04 repositories, and, in checking in synaptic, my version of 
> ffmpeg, which is the latest available version shown (for the 
> repository), is
> 7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
> 
> I remember having checked, and posted on the mailing list, about the 
> version that I have, because I was wanting v8, which apparently includes 
> automatic subtitling of videos, and, I was told that there is no 
> prospect of getting v8 for Ubuntu 22.04 .
> 
> So, I do not know why you would have a significantly older version than 
> I have, on a version of Ubuntu, that is two years later than the Ubuntu 
> that is the base version of what I am running.
> 

I appear to have been confused by the numbers involved.

Synaptic shows
Version: 7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1

which I perceive as a subversion of version 7

However, at the command line, is
~ > ffmpeg --version
ffmpeg version 4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1

showing that what I have, is a subversion of version 4.

Confusededed.


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