[FFmpeg-user] stuck on ffmpeg version 2.8.15

[Gabriella Han]

>From the Compilation guide:
*Note:* FFmpeg is part of the Ubuntu packages and can be installed via apt-get
install ffmpeg. You may still wish to compile if you want the latest
version, experience a bug, or want to customize your build, and it will not
interfere with the ffmpeg package in the repository.

These are the instructions I was referring to. I simply installed again
with apt-get install ffmpeg. Perhaps it was a mistake to say "download" vs
"install." Either way, I don't see what is so hard to understand about the
above instructions. I hope in the future you can speak to people looking
for help in a more respectful manner.

Best of Luck.



On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 4:17 PM Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:

>
>
> Am 06.05.19 um 22:13 schrieb 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.
>
> fact is that "It still downloads ffmpeg version 2.8.15 even after I
> removed ffmpeg and installed with the instructions in the Compilation
> Guide" is bullshit and shows what you understand or not
>
> when build from source apt/dnf/yum are out of game at all
>
> > 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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