FFmpeg in Fedora 36

Interview with Neal Gompa

duration goal: 5-10 minutes give or take

  • Welcome back to the show Neal
  • Neal has joined us before for an episode about the Fedora KDE SIG
  • episode 5 of season two
  • today Neal is here to tell us about an exciting change in Fedora 36
  • a FFmpeg implementation is now availible without the need to add any third party repos

Questions:

  • What is FFmpeg
  • Why is it so desired in Linux distros
  • Why is it frequently non-trivial to get in some distros/ why was it not in Fedora before
  • How did people previously get FFmpeg installed
  • How did you get it into Fedora's repos/ what is different about your implementation?
  • Who will find this useful and what for?
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