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.

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= Operating Systems =

||= Operating Systems  =||= FFmpeg branch =||= EOL date =||
|| Arch Linux^[#ref1 1]^                       || latest   || rolling release ||
|| Debian Old-Stable (Buster)^[#ref5 5]^       || 4.1      || ? ||
|| Debian Stable (Bullseye)^[#ref5 5]^         || 4.3      || ? ||
|| Debian Testing† (Bookworm)^[#ref5 5]^       || 5.1      || unreleased      ||
|| Debian Unstable (Sid)^[#ref5 5]^            || latest   || rolling release ||
|| Debian Experimental^[#ref5 5]^              || latest   || rolling release ||
|| DragonFlyBSD -current^[#ref13 13]^          || 4.4      ||
|| Fedora 36^*[#ref2 2]^                       || 5.0      || 2023-05 (est) ||
|| Fedora 37^*[#ref2 2]^                       || 5.1      || 2023-12 (est) ||
|| Fedora Rawhide^*[#ref2 2]^                  || latest   || rolling release ||
|| FreeBSD -current^[#ref14 14]^               || 4.4      || ||
|| Gentoo Stable^[#ref3 3]^                    || 4.1      || rolling release ||
|| Gentoo Unstable^[#ref3 3]^                  || latest   || rolling release ||
|| NetBSD -current^[#ref15 15]^ ^[#ref16 16]^ ^[#ref17 17]^ || 4.4, 3.4, 2.8 || ||
|| OpenBSD -current^[#ref18 18]^               || 4.4      || ||
|| !OpenMandriva Lx 3^[#ref9 9]^               || 4.0      || ? ||
|| Red Hat EL 7^*[#ref2 2]^                    || 2.8, 0.6 || 2024-06-30 (End of production phase 3) ||
|| ROSA 2016.1^*[#ref8 8]^                     || 3.2      || ? ||
|| Slackware Current^[#ref11 11]^              || 3.4      || rolling release ||
|| Solus^[#ref12 12]^                          || 3.4      || rolling release ||
|| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12^*[#ref4 4]^ || 2.8      || 2024-10-31 (End of general support) ||
|| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal^[#ref6 6]^           || 4.2      || 2025-04 ||

= Repology =

Not always accurate but gives a broad overview.

[[Image(https://repology.org/badge/vertical-allrepos/ffmpeg.svg, link=https://repology.org/metapackage/ffmpeg/versions)]]

= End-of-life releases =

||= Operating Systems  =||= FFmpeg branch =||= EOL date =||
|| Debian Jessie‡^[#ref5 5]^ || 3.2        || 2018-05-31 ||
|| Debian Stretch^[#ref5 5]^ || 3.2        || 2022-06-30 ||
|| Fedora 18^*[#ref2 2]^  || 1.0           || 2014-01-14 ||
|| Fedora 19^*[#ref2 2]^  || 1.2           || 2015-01-09 ||
|| Fedora 20^*[#ref2 2]^  || 2.1           || 2015-06-26 ||
|| Fedora 21^*[#ref2 2]^  || 2.4           || 2015-12-01 ||
|| Fedora 22^*[#ref2 2]^  || 2.6           || 2016-07-19 ||
|| Fedora 23^*[#ref2 2]^  || 2.8           || 2016-12-20 ||
|| Fedora 24^*[#ref2 2]^  || 3.0, 0.6      || 2017-08-08 ||
|| Fedora 25^*[#ref2 2]^  || 3.1, 0.6      || 2017-12-14 ||
|| Fedora 26^*[#ref2 2]^  || 3.3, 0.6      || 2018-06-01 ||
|| Fedora 27^*[#ref2 2]^  || 3.3           || 2018-11-30 ||
|| Fedora 28^*[#ref2 2]^  || 4.0           || 2019-05-28 ||
|| Fedora 29^*[#ref2 2]^  || 4.0           || 2019-11-29 ||
|| Fedora 30^*[#ref2 2]^  || 4.1           || 2020-05-26 ||
|| Fedora 31^*[#ref2 2]^   || 4.2          || 2020-11-24 ||
|| Mageia 3               || 1.1           || 2014-11-19 ||
|| Mageia 4               || 2.0           || 2015-09-19 ||
|| Mageia 5               || 2.4           || 2017-12-31 ||
|| Mageia 6^[#ref7 7]^    || 3.3           || 2019-09-30 ||
|| Mageia 7^[#ref7 7]^    || 4.1           || 2020-12-31 ||
|| Mageia 8^[#ref7 7]^    || 4.3           || 2022-08-31 ||
|| !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^*[#ref4 4]^ || 2.2        || 2013-05-15 ||
|| openSUSE 12.2^*[#ref4 4]^ || 2.3        || 2014-01-15 ||
|| openSUSE 12.3^*[#ref4 4]^ || 2.6        || 2014-09-15 ||
|| openSUSE 13.1^*[#ref4 4]^ || 2.8        || 2016-11 (Evergreen) ||
|| openSUSE 13.2^*[#ref4 4]^ || 2.8        || 2017-01-16 ||
|| openSUSE Leap 15.0^[#ref10 10]^  || 3.4 || 2019-11 ||
|| openSUSE Leap 42.3^[#ref10 10]^  || 3.4 || 2019-06 ||
|| Red Hat EL 5^*[#ref2 2]^  || pre-0.5 master || 2017-03-31 (End of production phase 3) ||
|| Red Hat EL 6^*[#ref2 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^*[#ref4 4]^ || 2.8      || 2019-03-31 (End of general support) ||
|| Ubuntu 15.04^[#ref6 6]^ || 2.5          || 2016-02-04 ||
|| Ubuntu 15.10^[#ref6 6]^ || 2.7          || 2016-07-28 ||
|| Ubuntu 16.10^[#ref6 6]^ || 3.0          || 2017-07-20 ||
|| Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty^[#ref6 6]^ || 3.2    || 2018-01-13 ||
|| Ubuntu 17.10 Artful^[#ref6 6]^ || 3.3   || 2018-07-19 ||
|| Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial^[#ref6 6]^ || 2.8 || 2021-04 ||
|| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic^[#ref6 6] || 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 =

[=#note1 ^*^] Third-party or unofficial repository

[=#note2 ^†^] Future release

[=#note3 ^‡^] Backports (BPO)

== References ==

[=#ref1 ^1^] See https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/ffmpeg/.

[=#ref2 ^2^] Via [http://rpmfusion.org/ RPM Fusion] prior to Fedora 36. See https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/ffmpeg

[=#ref3 ^3^] See http://packages.gentoo.org/package/media-video/ffmpeg.

[=#ref4 ^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.

[=#ref5 ^5^] See https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ffmpeg.

[=#ref6 ^6^] See https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ffmpeg.

[=#ref7 ^7^] See https://madb.mageia.org/package/show/application/0/arch/x86_64/name/ffmpeg

[=#ref8 ^8^] See http://mirror.rosalab.ru/rosa/rosa2016.1/repository/x86_64/media/main/release/

[=#ref9 ^9^] See https://abf.openmandriva.org/openmandriva/ffmpeg/build_lists#?page=1&per_page=25&ownership=everything

[=#ref10 ^10^] See https://software.opensuse.org/package/ffmpeg

[=#ref11 ^11^] See https://packages.slackware.com/

[=#ref12 ^12^] See https://mirrors.rit.edu/solus/packages/shannon/f/ffmpeg/

[=#ref13 ^13^] See https://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dports.git/history/HEAD:/multimedia/ffmpeg

[=#ref14 ^14^] See https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/log/multimedia/ffmpeg

[=#ref15 ^15^] See https://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/multimedia/ffmpeg4/Makefile

[=#ref16 ^16^] See https://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/multimedia/ffmpeg3/Makefile

[=#ref17 ^17^] See https://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/multimedia/ffmpeg2/Makefile

[=#ref18 ^18^] See http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/graphics/ffmpeg/Makefile