[SOLVED] What is /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg? Strange 8 MiB binary.

frumble · 2013-04-13 15:36:20

Hey,
I want to use the newest ffmpeg version, so I have installed 1.2.x. Some of my packages seem to need ffmpeg-compat as well. But now "which ffmpeg" tells: "/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg". That is a 8,8 MiB file and apparently an old version:

ffmpeg version 0.9.1.git Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Sep 17 2012 21:57:17 with gcc 4.7.1 20120721 (prerelease)
  libavutil      51. 34.100 / 51. 34.100
  libavcodec     53. 56.105 / 53. 56.105
  libavformat    53. 30.100 / 53. 30.100
  libavdevice    53.  4.100 / 53.  4.100
  libavfilter     2. 59.100 /  2. 59.100
  libswscale      2.  1.100 /  2.  1.100
  libswresample   0.  6.100 /  0.  6.100
[...]

My first suspicion was, this is ffmpeg-compat, but no: The ffmpeg-compat package doesn't contain any file for /usr/local/*. The binary under /usr/bin/ffmpeg is the newest version:

 [maximilian@Mongo ~]$ /usr/bin/ffmpeg 
ffmpeg version 1.2 Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Apr  1 2013 09:33:17 with gcc 4.7.2 (GCC)
[...]

By the way, this binary is only 180,5 KiB, so the other one is pretty probably a statically linked version. /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg was created in September 2012, /usr/bin/ffmpeg in April 2013.

So I have two binaries of ffmpeg:

whereis ffmpeg
ffmpeg: /usr/bin/ffmpeg /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg /usr/share/ffmpeg /usr/share/man/man1/ffmpeg.1.gz

And I have no idea from which package /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg is from. I have discovered the Arch tool pkgfile and I have made an update and after that "sudo pkgfile -s /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg": New line, no output. Any ideas? Thank you!

Last edited by frumble (2013-04-13 21:06:57)

graysky · 2013-04-13 15:44:28

No official PKGBUILD will install to /usr/local/bin but you can try:

`pacman -Qo /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg`

Probably ok to remove it.

frumble · 2013-04-13 21:06:39

Thank you! -Qo says, /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg belongs to no package. I will delete it.

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#1 2013-04-13 15:36:20

[SOLVED] What is /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg? Strange 8 MiB binary.

#2 2013-04-13 15:44:28

Re: [SOLVED] What is /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg? Strange 8 MiB binary.

#3 2013-04-13 21:06:39

Re: [SOLVED] What is /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg? Strange 8 MiB binary.

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