[FFmpeg-user] https://github.com/BtbN/FFmpeg-Builds/releases guidance needed

[Gyan Doshi]

On 25-12-2020 10:05 am, Mark Filipak (ffmpeg) wrote:
> Never mind. I figured it out based on the sizes of the 'exe' files.
> I downloaded 'ffmpeg-N-100461-gb0a882cc93-win64-gpl-vulkan.zip'.
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> On 12/24/2020 06:23 AM, Gyan Doshi wrote:
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>> On 24-12-2020 02:33 pm, Mark Filipak (ffmpeg) wrote:
>>> Here:
>>> https://github.com/BtbN/FFmpeg-Builds/releases
>>> are these:
>>> ffmpeg-N-100459-ga7f9b3b954-win64-gpl-shared-vulkan.zip
>>> ffmpeg-N-100459-ga7f9b3b954-win64-gpl-shared.zip
>>> ffmpeg-N-100459-ga7f9b3b954-win64-gpl-vulkan.zip
>>> ffmpeg-N-100459-ga7f9b3b954-win64-gpl.zip
>>> ffmpeg-N-100459-ga7f9b3b954-win64-lgpl-shared-vulkan.zip
>>> ffmpeg-N-100459-ga7f9b3b954-win64-lgpl-shared.zip
>>> ffmpeg-N-100459-ga7f9b3b954-win64-lgpl-vulkan.zip
>>> ffmpeg-N-100459-ga7f9b3b954-win64-lgpl.zip
>>> ffmpeg-n4.3.1-26-gca55240b8c-win64-gpl-4.3.zip
>>> ffmpeg-n4.3.1-26-gca55240b8c-win64-gpl-shared-4.3.zip
>>> ffmpeg-n4.3.1-26-gca55240b8c-win64-lgpl-4.3.zip
>>> ffmpeg-n4.3.1-26-gca55240b8c-win64-lgpl-shared-4.3.zip
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>>> Sorry to have to ask [1], but what are they? Which one do I download 
>>> if I have an Intel Core i7-6700HQ CPU with Intel(R) HD Graphics 530 
>>> & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M?
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>> The ones with 'N-' are git builds;   the n4.3.1 are release builds.
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>> gpl and lgpl are the licenses for the binaries contained in them. gpl 
>> ones will have more libraries.
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>> 'shared'  ones have the libav libs in separate files with the ff*.exe 
>> files dynamically linked to them. The ones without shared are 
>> statically linked and have everything in the exe.
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>> vulkan is a new-ish API for processing on a GPU. You can use the few 
>> vulkan filters currently in libavfilter.  Your graphics driver must 
>> support Vulkan else ffmpeg won't run. Yours should.
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>> Regards,
>> Gyan
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> I like sausage, but please don't tell me what's in it.  :-]
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> If I want everything, and I want to be able to say that I found a bug 
> using the latest git version, what do I download?

For ffmpeg bugs, any of the N- builds will do.

Gyan