HOWTO: Install and use the latest FFmpeg and x264

[mc4man]

version.sh may have some clues.

Thanks - was quite simple
(- cd to ffmpeg source > run version.sh, it prints it out in terminal.

edit: just for clarification to no one in particular -
if a full clone then it prints as above - ex. - N-73632-g39a04eb
if a depth 1 clone then - git-2015-07-13-39a04eb

[andrew.46]

Installed FFmpeg version extraction:

andrew@ilium:~$ ffmpeg -version | head -n 1 | cut -d ' ' -f 3
N-73541-g944a1aa

but looks like this is not really what you are after. Using the 'space' delimiter for cut means it may also work for ' git-2015-07-13-39a04eb' ( if the string generated by head -n 1 is similar).

[mc4man]

Installed FFmpeg version extraction:

andrew@ilium:~$ ffmpeg -version | head -n 1 | cut -d ' ' -f 3
N-73541-g944a1aa

but looks like this is not really what you are after. Using the 'space' delimiter for cut means it may also work for ' git-2015-07-13-39a04eb' ( if the string generated by head -n 1 is similar).

It is in regards to a ppa build I provide. Atm I use a 'modular' script based build method, it currently just uses whatever is in the ffmpeg source > RELEASE file for what is shown when ffmpeg is run from cli. Currently git clones have 2.6.git in that file which is a little misleading to anyone using that package.

So rather than figure out how to get the build to use version.sh I just edit that file to suit. I figure maybe when there is more free time i'll look into, (I've taken on caring for an old best friend whose time is sadly ending...), the script based build is easier atm then more traditional methods.
Also makes it easy to add or remove static elements, currently just dcadec & libvpx-1.4 - screen

So this is the terminal

$ ffmpeg
ffmpeg version N-73632-g39a04eb Copyright (c) 2000-2015 the FFmpeg developers
built with gcc 4.8 (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04)
ect...

[andrew.46]

"Debian Multimedia Maintainers team, have finally decided to switch from Libav to FFmpeg as provider for the libav* multimedia libraries".
https://lists.debian.org/debian-deve.../msg00001.html

And doubtless buoyed up by this change of heart in the Debian camp I see that one of the abcde developers has added in FFmpeg to abcde:

http://git.einval.com/cgi-bin/gitweb...9d949a03538c15

with a nod towards avconv as well...

[FakeOutdoorsman]

Thanks - was quite simple
(- cd to ffmpeg source > run version.sh, it prints it out in terminal.

Good. I couldn't remember what exactly it outputs and I was, and still am, unable to test. I'm on a fishing trip.

Currently git clones have 2.6.git in that file which is a little misleading to anyone using that package.

This is a known issue; there may be a ticket in trac.

edit: just for clarification to no one in particular -
if a full clone then it prints as above - ex. - N-73632-g39a04eb
if a depth 1 clone then - git-2015-07-13-39a04eb

IIRC, it changes to something different once you git pull the shallow repo.

And doubtless buoyed up by this change of heart in the Debian camp I see that one of the abcde developers has added in FFmpeg to abcde

Good to see work on abcde continues.

[sudodus]

... I'm on a fishing trip.
...

Enjoy the fishing, RealOutdoorsman

[mc4man]

As of 15.10 the -dev packages (libavcodec-dev, libavformat-dev, ect) will be based on ffmpeg. So all new builds of sources using such will use ffmpeg over libav.
(the actual shared libs will remain suffixed -ffmpeg for a bit longer.

[mc4man]

I see 2.8 was cut yesterday, how long generally till an official release?

[FakeOutdoorsman]

Historically, a day or two. However, there is a lot of other activity going on right now (that won't be in the release, AFAIK), such as removing Libav ABI compatibility workarounds and merging the recent Libav major bump, that may case a delay.

In other news the native AAC encoder should soon be out of experimental status. I'm guessing 2-4 weeks, but who knows.

[andrew.46]

In other news the native AAC encoder should soon be out of experimental status..

Looks like a huuuuge amount of work has been done on the aac encoder lately, it will be interesting to sample this work once the dust has settled!