How to get ffmpeg v 7.1 or higher?

[Bo Berglund]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2025 00:53:04 +0800, Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:

>Is your Ubuntu fully updated?

Yes  it is, I do updates regularly like every week.


>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 believe this is ffmpeg 4.4.2

But you can check by just running ffmpeg in a command window because it prints
its version almost directly upon running.


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden