[FFmpeg-user] Trying to understand ffmpeg cpu usage in this case of capturing rtsp streams

[Carl Zwanzig]

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On 11/8/2024 3:46 PM, Jim Ruxton wrote:
> Thanks so much for the help. Not sure why but when I try to upgrade ffmpeg
> using the ppa as you suggested I get:
> 
> ffmpeg is already the newest version (7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1+esm5).
> 
> however if I check with "ffmpeg -version " I get :
> 
> ffmpeg version 4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1+esm5 Copyright (c) 2000-2021 the

Your PATH env variable is probably pointing to the wrong place; "which 
ffmpeg" will show you what it's going to execute, see if that is where 
ubuntu usually installs the packages. (This is a shell and system admin 
issue, not ffmpeg.)

Later,

z!