ffmpeg confusion

[jonm]

I'm hoping this is a simple one... I'm running Jellyfin server on Fedora 41. I currently have ffmpeg 6.0.1 in /usr/local/bin which I downloaded and built from the GitHub repo. Its version reports:

Code:

ffmpeg version 6.0.1-Jellyfin Copyright (c) 2000-2023 the FFmpeg developers

I noticed that the rpmfusion repo had a much newer version so I looked on GitHub and downloaded the latest, i.e. I grabbed this: 

Code:

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-ffmpeg.git

Having built this I now have a version 7.0.2 but it doesn't mention that it's the Jellyfin version - how do I check/confirm that it is?

[TheDreadPirate]

Just built it, can confirm it doesn't have the Jellyfin copyright in the output.

The size and checksum as of building it April 14 1115 GMT.

Code:

chris@rat-trap:~/git/jellyfin-ffmpeg$ ll ffmpeg ; md5sum ffmpeg
-rwxrwxr-x 1 chris chris 23866024 Apr 14 09:07 ffmpeg*
67327c96c4cda7b0b378569b116055a3  ffmpeg

[jonm]

Thanks. I built it but it doesn't seem to work properly. I've switched back to the old one for now. Guessing I did something wrong with the config/build.

[TheDreadPirate]

You cloned the git, cd'd into the directory and ran "./configure" and "make", correct? That should build the binaries. If you wanted them "installed" automatically, you would use "make install" to push them to /usr/bin.

You can also grab the "portable" builds from our repo.

https://repo.jellyfin.org/?path=/ffmpeg/...-7.x/amd64

[jonm]

Yep that's how I built it. Have downloaded the one from the repo now - thank you