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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 3 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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[–] that_leaflet@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The ffmpeg from Flathub is a "runtime" package, intended to be used by other flatpak apps. It's not meant for CLI use.

Flatpak apps are not added to your $PATH. They're run with flatpak run appID. Though again, ffmpeg is not an app so it cannot be run this way. Though technically you could use it for CLI use by doing something like flatpak run --command=sh org.mozilla.firefox. This will open a shell inside the flatpak environment, which can use the ffmpeg flatpak runtime.

Though now that I think about it, it would be fun to create my own flatpak package for ffmpeg for CLI use. Should be pretty simple, it would just be a mostly empty package that relies on the ffmpeg-full flatpak runtime. Edit: and I did

Screenshot of my ffmpeg flatpak

The manifest is simply

id: my.custom.ffmpeg
runtime: org.freedesktop.Platform
runtime-version: '24.08'
sdk: org.freedesktop.Sdk
add-extensions:
  org.freedesktop.Platform.ffmpeg-full:
    directory: lib/ffmpeg
    version: '24.08'
    add-ld-path: .
command: ffmpeg
modules:
  - name: ffmpeg-wrapper
    buildsystem: simple
    build-commands:
      - mkdir -p /app/lib/ffmpeg
      - install -Dm755 ffmpeg.sh /app/bin/ffmpeg
    sources:
      - type: script
        dest-filename: ffmpeg.sh
        commands:
          - /usr/bin/ffmpeg "$@"
finish-args:
    - --filesystem=host

[–] arsus5478@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

holy crap you're fast