How to get ffmpeg v 7.1 or higher?

[Bo Berglund]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2025 04:59:11 +0800, Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:

> From what I have found so far, in also viewing
>https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ffmpeg
>I am wondering whether you would need to do a distribution upgrade to 
>25.04, to get a version of ffmpeg that you want.
>

No, I did as follows instead:

Inside a dir $HOME/projects:
wget
https://github.com/BtbN/FFmpeg-Builds/releases/download/latest/ffmpeg-master-latest-linux64-gpl.tar.xz

After decompressing the tar.xz file I could get the latest ffmpeg executables
from the bin dir in the tree.
Then I symlinked ffmpeg into $HOME/bin

Now I have the latest ffmpeg available for my private use.


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Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden