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How to safely upgrade ffmpeg and all its components

Asked by Magne Djupvik

Hi, I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, and I'm experiencing decoding issues in certain video editors I believe are using ffmpeg (gstreamer ones such as Pitivi works fine). So I would like to upgrade my ffmpeg packages to the Maverick Meerkat ones and see if things have improved. How to do this in a (relatively) safe and maintainable way?

Thank you.

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mycae (mycae) said : 		#1

0) Find an ffmpeg PPA (I had a quick look, but nothing jumped out at me -- though this was not exhaustive)
1) You could try forcing the maverick/natty FFMPEG binaries, and hope they happen to be binary (ABI) compatible.
2) you could try downloading the source package for maverick, then recompiling it.

http://www.moosechips.com/2008/09/ubuntu-rebuild-a-source-package/

but instead of getting the package from your database, grab it from packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/....

then rebuild. This will ensure ABI compatibiltiy, but is more work. If you increment the version number in the file debian/control and debian/changelog to something custom ( i.e. 1.0.0-1mypackage or 1.0.0-1ubuntu1mypackage1), then you should be able to play nicely with the repos. I.e. your package will be gretaer than 1.0.0-1, but less than 1.0.0-2.
3) You could compile ffmpeg purely from source

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