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[SOLVED] ffmpeg from apt or flatpak, do I need both? debian 13.0 (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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flatpak should be newer than apt, correct if wrong.

I first installed FFmpeg extension with extra codecs from flatpak, executed a ffmpeg command that returned: command not found.

I then thought the flatpak package, as the name states, is an extension that needs the apt version to be installed to work, so I executed sudo apt install ffmpeg and after downloading, the command worked.

Should I get rid of flatpak's ffmpeg? Am I gaining functions with this package?

ffmpeg -version returns ffmpeg version 7.1.1-1+b1 Copyright (c) 2000-2025 the FFmpeg developers built with gcc 14 (Debian 14.2.0-19)

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    • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Unless you have a reason for the flatpak, just use the deb from the repo.

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    [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Other parts of your system very likely require the apt ffmpeg. Keep it, or at least note the packages that apt wants to uninstall because they depend on ffmpeg

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    [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    You cannot run flatpak application by simply calling the binary.

    Coming to your question, I suggest you to install ffmpeg directly from your Debian repo, this way you can get hardware acceleration or device specific benefits for encoding/decoding/transcoding.

    You can keep the flatpak version if it is needed by some other flatpak applications. Normally one won't interfere with the other.

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