[FFmpeg-user] ffmpeg version

[Lou]

On Sun, May 7, 2017, at 12:03 AM, negin tebyani wrote:
> I have two systems that I am running ffmpeg on them. when I use the
> ffmpeg
> -version command, the versions are so different.
> this is the first system's ffmpeg version:
> 
> ffmpeg version N-85203-g400378b
> 
> and this is for the second system:
> 
> ffmpeg version 2.8.11
> 
> I tried to install 2.8.11 version on the first one. but still no result.
> how can I fix this? i need to use x264opts. it works on second system.
> but
> the first system does not include libx264 on the encoders list. so it can
> not find the opts options.

Don't use the old version. A simple solution is to download a recent,
already compiled binary that includes libx264 encoding support. See the
FFmpeg Download page for links for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

https://ffmpeg.org/download.html