[FFmpeg-user] stuck on ffmpeg version 2.8.15

[Gabriella Han]

I was simply running the command again to show that it was stating that
2.8.15 is the newest version. I know it is already installed. I don’t
appreciate being told what I do and do not understand. I will seek help
elsewhere. Thank you.

On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 4:10 PM Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:

>
>
> Am 06.05.19 um 22:07 schrieb Gabriella Han:
> > Thanks. It still downloads ffmpeg version 2.8.15 even after I removed
> > ffmpeg and installed with the instructions in the Compilation Guide.
> When I
> > try to run sudo apt-get install ffmpeg again, I get:
>
> you even don't understand what the compilation guideline is talking
> about, please seek some Ubuntu mailing list
>
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree
> > Reading state information... Done
> > ffmpeg is already the newest version (7:2.8.15-0ubuntu0.16.04.1).
> > The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
> > required:
> >   apt-clone archdetect-deb containerd dmeventd dmraid dpkg-repack
> >   gir1.2-timezonemap-1.0 gir1.2-xkl-1.0 grub-common kpartx kpartx-boot
> >   libappstream3 libdbusmenu-gtk4 libdebian-installer4
> > libdevmapper-event1.02.1
> >   libdmraid1.0.0.rc16 liblockfile-bin liblockfile1 liblvm2app2.2
> >   liblvm2cmd2.02 libmircommon5 libparted-fs-resize0 libqmi-glib1
> libqpdf17
> >   libreadline5 lockfile-progs lvm2 os-prober pmount python3-icu
> python3-pam
> >   rdate runc snapd-login-service ubiquity-casper ubiquity-ubuntu-artwork
> >   ubuntu-core-launcher
> > Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
> > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
> >
> > This is odd because 2.8.15 is not the newest version to my understanding.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 7:54 PM Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Am 06.05.19 um 21:52 schrieb Gabriella Han:
> >>> That's great. Then could you provide me with instructions to install a
> >>> recent working version of ffmpeg with Ubuntu 16.04? I was only
> installing
> >>> an outdated distribution because I could not find such instructions on
> >> the
> >>> official ffmpeg website.
> >>
> >> https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide
> >>
> >>> On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 7:45 PM Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Am 06.05.19 um 21:41 schrieb Gabriella Han:
> >>>>> If this is not the right mailing list, which would be a better one to
> >>>>> contact?
> >>>>
> >>>> a mailing list or forum of your distribution?
> >>>>
> >>>> this is about UPSTREAM ffmpeg with a recent, working binary or how to
> >>>> compile one from soruce and not about random third party binarties of
> >>>> random outdated distributions
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