How to get ffmpeg v 7.1 or higher?

[Bret Busby]

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?
> 
> 

Have you viewed

https://gist.github.com/jmsaavedra/62bbcd20d40bcddf27ac

https://ffmpeg.org/

https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/

?

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