[FFmpeg-user] ffmpeg 32 bit or 64 bit

[Moritz Barsnick]

On Wed, May 01, 2019 at 17:24:45 +0545, Remo Rayamajhi wrote:
> Well i have installed 64 bit of Os but someone told me even I compile from
> compilation guide I would get 32 bit of ffmpeg ..that's why I asked

That's most likely nonsense. While it's not impossible, you'd have to
jump though quite a few hoops to get a 32 bit ffmpeg on a "standard"
system.

To go sure, you can check your resulting binary (or library) e.g. with
the tool "file":

My 32 bit system:
$ file ffmpeg
ffmpeg: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-linux.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, BuildID[sha1]=e46979b5bf2553f343c522d8a5752eff179c9bab, stripped

My 64 bit system:
$ file ffmpeg
ffmpeg: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, BuildID[sha1]=6fafd8ac8dcd60c4a4172d05c82754e8342766b2, stripped

Cheers,
Moritz