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

[Ferdi Scholten]

On Sat, Nov 09, 2024 at 13:11:56 -0500, Jim Ruxton wrote:
>> "apt-list ffmpeg" shows the version 7 package is installed
>> /jammy-apps-security,now 7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1+esm5 amd64 [installed]
> That is not version 7, that is version 4.4.2. The PPA you quoted would
> supply version 7.0.1.
>
> (Isn't "jammy-apps-security" the name of the repo which provides the
> package? If so, ffmpeg isn't cominf from said PPA.)
>
> Cheers,
> Moritz
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>
for the sake of completeness, the 7: part of the version number in 
Ubuntu is the "epoch" number. This is usually given when the versioning 
scheme of the packaged software is changed and new versions cannot be 
reliably derived from the version number because of that. Apparently 
this has happened 7 times for ffmpeg.