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Ryan McClure
Asked: 2012-06-02 13:18:56 +0800 CST

How can I determine which version of FFMPEG comes by default?

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I am honestly confused beyond belief about my package that I have installed for FFMPEG. It is, according to Synaptic, version:

4:0.8.1-1really0u1

For some reason, I feel like this is not the version that would come in the repositories and I feel like another PPA that I may have used installed a wrong version. I believe it was the VLC PPA for nightly builds.

Can anyone who does not have this PPA on their system tell me what version of FFMPEG they are running?

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Yours is a PPA version, which is most probably similar to the official version. See below, from Precise (Ubuntu 12.04):

    $ dpkg --list ffmpeg
ii  ffmpeg                                 4:0.8.1-0ubuntu1                        
Multimedia player, server, encoder and transcoder (transitional package)

$ apt-cache policy ffmpeg
ffmpeg:
  Installed: 4:0.8.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 4:0.8.1-0ubuntu1

$ ffmpeg

ffmpeg version 0.8.1-4:0.8.1-0ubuntu1, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the Libav developers
  built on Mar 22 2012 05:09:06 with gcc 4.6.3

.....

    To reinstall the official version over the PPA version, you can either use the ppa-purge script (install that first!), or if you have already deleted the PPA, use

    sudo apt-get install ffmpeg=4:0.8.1-0ubuntu1

    You may have to throw a --reinstall switch in there if it fails.

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  2. In addition to izx's solution of installing a specific version you can always revert a package to the distribution by tacking on the release at the end, like so: 

    sudo apt-get install ffmpeg/precise
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