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[SOLVED] ffmpeg from apt or flatpak, do I need both? debian 13.0 (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by arsus5478@lemmy.ml 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?

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[–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week 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.