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I'm having issues replicating a centos 6 instance. It looks like I have 2 versions of ffmpeg on my old server:

ffmpeg -version gives me:

ffmpeg version 1.2.5
built on Jan 30 2014 19:45:47 with gcc 4.4.7 (GCC) 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-4)
configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-shared --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --enable-x11grab --enable-decoder=png --enable-encoder=png --extra-cflags=-I/usr/local/include --extra-ldflags=-L/usr/local/lib

but /root/bin/ffmpeg -version gives me:

ffmpeg version git-2016-05-31-971351b Copyright (c) 2000-2016 the FFmpeg developers
built with gcc 4.4.7 (GCC) 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-17)
configuration: --prefix=/root/ffmpeg_build --extra-cflags=-I/root/ffmpeg_build/include --extra-ldflags=-L/root/ffmpeg_build/lib --bindir=/root/bin --pkg-config-flags=--static --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree --enable-libfdk-aac --enable-libfreetype --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265

I tried using this guide https://www.ostechnix.com/install-ffmpeg-linux/ to get the newest version of ffmpeg but that gave me, 

ffmpeg version 0.10.16
built on Aug 26 2016 13:01:36 with gcc 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-17)
configuration: --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --datadir=/usr/share/ffmpeg --incdir=/usr/include/ffmpeg --libdir=/usr/lib64 --mandir=/usr/share/man --arch=x86_64 --extra-cflags='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic' --enable-bzlib --disable-crystalhd --enable-gnutls --enable-libass --enable-libcdio --enable-libcelt --enable-libdc1394 --disable-indev=jack --enable-libfreetype --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-openal --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libpulse --enable-librtmp --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libv4l2 --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --enable-x11grab --enable-avfilter --enable-postproc --enable-pthreads --disable-static --enable-shared --enable-gpl --disable-debug --disable-stripping --shlibdir=/usr/lib64 --enable-runtime-cpudetect

Prior to using that guide the yum install gave me a 0.6.5 version which I guess meant my repo was ever further out of date.

How can I take the same version my old server is using, or install the latest version? The version numbers and copyright years also seem off to me. Should't 1.2.5 come after the 0.10.16 release?

(These threads lead me here, Any downsides to always using the -movflags faststart parameter? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23419351/ffmpeg-using-movflags-faststart)

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    Get a git binary from https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/. The built on date just tells you when it was compiled - not the vintage of the source code. – Gyan Oct 22 '18 at 18:28

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I was able to get the up to date version of ffmpeg here, https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/. I used the following steps:

  1. yum remove ffmpeg (to delete my previous version built from out of date repo)
  2. wget https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/releases/ffmpeg-release-64bit-static.tar.xz
  3. tar xvf ffmpeg-release-64bit-static.tar.xz
  4. mv ffmpeg-4.0.2-64bit-static/ffmpeg ffmpeg-4.0.2-64bit-static/ffprobe /usr/bin/

For more detailed instructions: https://www.johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/faq/

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