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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 latest rolling release
Debian Oldstable (Jessie)‡5 3.2 2020-05 (End of LTS)
Debian Stable (Stretch)5 3.2 2022-06 (End of LTS)
Debian Testing†5 4.0 unreleased
Debian Unstable (Sid)5 latest rolling release
Fedora 28*2 4.0 Fedora 30 release date + 1 month
Fedora 29*2 4.0 Fedora 31 release date + 1 month
Fedora Rawhide*2 latest rolling release
Gentoo Stable3 3.3 rolling release
Gentoo Unstable3 latest rolling release
Mageia 67 3.3 2019-01-16
OpenMandriva Lx 39 4.0 ?
openSUSE Leap 15.010 3.4 2019-11
openSUSE Leap 42.310 3.4 2019-06
Red Hat EL 6*2 0.10 2020-11-30 (End of production phase 3)
Red Hat EL 7*2 2.8, 0.6 2024-06-30 (End of production phase 3)
ROSA 2016.1*8 3.2 ?
Slackware Current11 3.4 rolling release
Solus12 3.4 rolling release
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11*4 2.8 2019-03-31 (End of general support)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12*4 2.8 2024-10-31 (End of general support)
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial6 2.8 2021-04
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic6 3.4 2023-04

Repology

Not always accurate but gives a broad overview.

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

End-of-life releases

Linux Distributions FFmpeg branch EOL date
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
Mageia 3 1.1 2014-11-19
Mageia 4 2.0 2015-09-19
Mageia 5 2.4 2017-12-31
OpenMandriva 2013.0 1.2 2014-09-26
OpenMandriva 2014 2.5 2017-11-21
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
Red Hat EL 5*2 pre-0.5 master 2017-03-31 (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
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

Software

Projects FFmpeg branch EOL date
Avidemux 2.7.1 3.3 ?
MythTV 29.x 3.2 ?

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 ?
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.

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/