How to get ffmpeg v 7.1 or higher?

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> 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?

You might be able to use the Snap Store. I think this is a use case for Snap.

If I were in your position, I would build it from sources. I don't use
external repos like Snap and Flatpak.

Jeff