wiki:Downstreams

Knowing which software products ship, embed, or bundle FFmpeg, which release branches they use, and their support lifecycles, can help the FFmpeg project determine how to best devote resources in maintaining older release branches of FFmpeg. Feel free to contribute or update information on this page.

Operating Systems

Operating Systems FFmpeg branch EOL date
Arch Linux1 latest rolling release
Debian Old-Stable (Bullseye)5 4.3 2026-06
Debian Stable (Bookworm)5 5.1 2028-06
Debian Testing† (Trixie)5 6.0 2030-06
Debian Unstable (Sid)5 latest rolling release
Debian Experimental5 latest rolling release
DragonFlyBSD -current13 4.4
Fedora 37*2 5.1 2023-12 (est)
Fedora Rawhide*2 latest rolling release
FreeBSD -current14 4.4
Gentoo Stable3 4.4 rolling release
Gentoo Unstable3 latest rolling release
NetBSD -current15 16 17 4.4, 3.4, 2.8
OpenBSD -current18 4.4
OpenMandriva Lx 4.319 5.0 ?
Red Hat EL 7*2 2.8, 0.6 2024-06-30 (End of production phase 3)
ROSA 2016.1*8 3.2 ?
Slackware 1511 4.4 ?
Slackware Current11 5.1 rolling release
Solus12 3.4 rolling release
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12*4 2.8 2024-10-31 (End of general support)
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal6 4.2 2025-04
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy6 4.4 2027-04

Repology

Not always accurate but gives a broad overview.

https://repology.org/badge/vertical-allrepos/ffmpeg.svg

End-of-life releases

Operating Systems FFmpeg branch EOL date
Debian Jessie‡5 3.2 2018-05-31
Debian Stretch5 3.2 2022-06-30
Fedora 18*2 1.0 2014-01-14
Fedora 19*2 1.2 2015-01-09
Fedora 20*2 2.1 2015-06-26
Fedora 21*2 2.4 2015-12-01
Fedora 22*2 2.6 2016-07-19
Fedora 23*2 2.8 2016-12-20
Fedora 24*2 3.0, 0.6 2017-08-08
Fedora 25*2 3.1, 0.6 2017-12-14
Fedora 26*2 3.3, 0.6 2018-06-01
Fedora 27*2 3.3 2018-11-30
Fedora 28*2 4.0 2019-05-28
Fedora 29*2 4.0 2019-11-29
Fedora 30*2 4.1 2020-05-26
Fedora 31*2 4.2 2020-11-24
Fedora 36*2 5.0 2023-05-16
Mageia 3 1.1 2014-11-19
Mageia 4 2.0 2015-09-19
Mageia 5 2.4 2017-12-31
Mageia 67 3.3 2019-09-30
Mageia 77 4.1 2020-12-31
Mageia 87 4.3 2022-08-31
OpenMandriva 2013.0 1.2 2014-09-26
OpenMandriva 2014 2.5 2017-11-21
OpenMandriva Lx 39 4.0 ?
openSUSE 11.1* 2.1 2011-01-14
openSUSE 11.2* 2.1 2011-05-12
openSUSE 11.3* 0.10 2012-01-20
openSUSE 11.4* 2.8 2015-07 (Evergreen)
openSUSE 12.1*4 2.2 2013-05-15
openSUSE 12.2*4 2.3 2014-01-15
openSUSE 12.3*4 2.6 2014-09-15
openSUSE 13.1*4 2.8 2016-11 (Evergreen)
openSUSE 13.2*4 2.8 2017-01-16
openSUSE Leap 15.010 3.4 2019-11
openSUSE Leap 42.310 3.4 2019-06
Red Hat EL 5*2 pre-0.5 master 2017-03-31 (End of production phase 3)
Red Hat EL 6*2 0.10 2020-11-30 (End of production phase 3)
ROSA 2012.1 2.1 2014-08-10 (when ROSA 2014.1 was released)
ROSA 2012 LTS 0.7 2017
ROSA 2014.1 2.8 fall, 2016
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11*4 2.8 2019-03-31 (End of general support)
Ubuntu 15.046 2.5 2016-02-04
Ubuntu 15.106 2.7 2016-07-28
Ubuntu 16.106 3.0 2017-07-20
Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty6 3.2 2018-01-13
Ubuntu 17.10 Artful6 3.3 2018-07-19
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial6 2.8 2021-04
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic6 3.4 2023-04

Software

Projects FFmpeg branch EOL date
Avidemux 2.8.0 4.4 ?
MythTV 29.x 3.2 ?
MythTV 30.x 4.0 ?

Old releases

Projects FFmpeg branch EOL date
Avidemux 2.6.12 2.7 2016-08-18 (2.6.13 release)
Avidemux 2.6.20 3.0 ?
Avidemux 2.7.1 3.3 2019-03-11 (2.7.2 release)
Avidemux 2.7.4 4.1 ?
MythTV 0.26.x 0.10 2013-09-18 (0.27 release)
MythTV 0.27.x 1.2 ?
MythTV 0.28.x 3.0 ?

Notes

* Third-party or unofficial repository

Future release

Backports (BPO)

References

1 See https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/ffmpeg/.

2 Via RPM Fusion prior to Fedora 36. See https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/ffmpeg

3 See http://packages.gentoo.org/package/media-video/ffmpeg.

4 The relevant source for ffmpeg packages is http://packman.links2linux.org/package/ffmpeg. See also https://software.opensuse.org/package/ffmpeg for alternative sources. These packages are considered "unstable", because they are uploaded by users.

5 See https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ffmpeg.

6 See https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ffmpeg.

7 See https://madb.mageia.org/package/show/application/0/arch/x86_64/name/ffmpeg

8 See http://mirror.rosalab.ru/rosa/rosa2016.1/repository/x86_64/media/main/release/

9 See https://abf.openmandriva.org/openmandriva/ffmpeg/build_lists#?page=1&per_page=25&ownership=everything

10 See https://software.opensuse.org/package/ffmpeg

11 See https://packages.slackware.com/

12 See https://mirrors.rit.edu/solus/packages/shannon/f/ffmpeg/

13 See https://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dports.git/history/HEAD:/multimedia/ffmpeg

14 See https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/log/multimedia/ffmpeg

15 See https://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/multimedia/ffmpeg4/Makefile

16 See https://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/multimedia/ffmpeg3/Makefile

17 See https://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/multimedia/ffmpeg2/Makefile

18 See http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/graphics/ffmpeg/Makefile

19 See https://openmandriva.pkgs.org/4.3/openmandriva-main-release-x86_64/ffmpeg-5.0-1-omv4050.x86_64.rpm.html

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