[FFmpeg-user] 2.8.14 security updates

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

2018-05-16 9:39 GMT+02:00, Moritz Barsnick <barsnick at gmx.net>:
> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 17:25:56 -0500, Bryan Duff wrote:
>> OK, and the reason I'm using 2.8 is because that's as high as the el7
>> rpmfusion repo goes to.
>
> Okay, if it was the libraries you needed, because you had an old
> program which has never been adapted to ffmpeg's new APIs/ABIs, that
> would have been a valid reason. But for the command line tools, I see
> no reason not to grab hold of a considerably newer version.
>
> If you want to stick to repos: In the case of EL7, I know that you can
> find much newer versions of the multimedia programs including ffmpeg
> (4.0) in the Negativo17 multimedia repo:

It should be much simpler to either compile a default (static) binary
or download one from the kind people offering them, see the download
section on our homepage.

Carl Eugen