I have a question for instances admins, what version of ffmpeg does your server use?

I'm currently looking into upgrading to 7.x with https://yawnbox.is/blog/upgrade-ffmpeg-for-mastodon-fediverse/

Maybe it could help with better and faster video conversion

@stux I have a general form recommendation about ffmpeg in any application:

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"

I have a question for instances admins, what version of ffmpeg does your server use?

I'm currently looking into upgrading to 7.x with https://yawnbox.is/blog/upgrade-ffmpeg-for-mastodon-fediverse/

Maybe it could help with better and faster video conversion

@stux
Currently I'm running the stock Debian one.
Unsure if the newer version is faster.
A lot will depend on how busy your CPU cores and disks are I guess.

@admin Is that v4.x?

@stux
Nah, 5.1.6 in Bookworm.
Trixie will have 7.1.1.

@stux
Are you running Debian, Ubuntu or ... ?

@admin Ubuntu 22.04

@stux I have a general form recommendation about ffmpeg in any application:

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"

@lauren Given the number of exploits in ffmepg, you better start fixing it. Doing usefull work with the vulnerabilities might be hard, but crashing your ffmpeg looks to be trivially easy.

(Often distro's backport security patches, if you have technical reasons to stick to a specific version..)

@stux
Ah !
Well, at least they patched their version of ffmpeg eventually
Why did you stay on 22.04 for the new server and didn't you immediately go for 24.04 ?
Or for Debian Trixie ?
I expect Trixie to be released as stable (halfway) next month but it should be ample secure and stable enough already to run Mastodon.