How to get ffmpeg v 7.1 or higher?

[Bret Busby]

On 26/9/25 14:30, Bo Berglund wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

Okay - does that work okay with both any dependencies that ffmpeg may 
have, and, with any applications that use ffmpeg, in terms of the 
versions that are inherent in the operating system?

What concerns me, and, this is part of why I raised the prospect of the 
possible need for upgrading the operating system version, is that, from 
what I found, 25.04 is the first Ubuntu version that shows as having 
v7.x of ffmpeg available in its repositories, and, it had occurred to 
me, in that, that any dependencies that ffmpeg has, and, any 
applications that use ffmpeg, should be compatible, in terms of their 
versions that are in the operating system version default system 
repositories, being compatible with the version(s) of ffmpeg that are 
available in the operating system version default repositories.

Maybe I am overthinking this, but, this is an aspect that has/had me 
concerned, about installing a later version of ffmpeg, than is available 
in each particular operating system version default repositories.

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