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.

Linux Distributions

Linux Distributions	FFmpeg branch	EOL date
Arch Linux1	generally latest	rolling release
Fedora 19*2	1.2	?
Fedora 20*2	2.1	?
Gentoo3	stable: 1.2; unstable: latest	rolling release
Mageia 3	1.1	2014-11-19
Mageia 4	2.0	2015-08-01
OpenMandriva 2013.0	1.2	?
OpenMandriva 2014.0	2.1	?
openSUSE 12.3*4	2.2	2014-09-15
openSUSE 13.1*4	2.2	TBA
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 LTS	1.2	?
ROSA 2012.1	2.1	?
ROSA 2014.1	2.2	?
SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3*4	2.2	2016-03-31

End-of-life releases

Linux Distributions	FFmpeg branch	EOL date
Fedora 18*2	1.0	2014-01-14
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*	2.2	2012-11-05
openSUSE 12.1*4	2.2	2013-05-15
openSUSE 12.2*4	2.2	2014-01-15

Software Applications Bundles

Software Applications	FFmpeg branch	EOL date
Avidemux 2.6.8	1.2	?
MythTV 0.26.x	0.10	2013-09-18 (0.27 release)
MythTV 0.27.x	1.2	0.28 release (likely late 2014)

Notes

^* third-party or non-official repository

References

¹ See ​https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/ffmpeg/.

² Via ​RPM Fusion.

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

⁴ See ​https://software.opensuse.org/package/ffmpeg. The packages are considered "unstable", because they are uploaded by users like ​X0F. An alternative source of ffmpeg package is ​http://packman.links2linux.org/package/ffmpeg.