From: Lists <lists at benjamindsmith.com> > We're trying to build a rich media website, and will need to re-encode > the video content with ffmpeg. Unfortunately, the ffmpeg version that > comes with the most common repos are rather out of date. As in 0.6.5 vs > 2.21 being the most current version. However, ffmpeg looks to be a > pretty thorny thing to compile with all the options we need. It appears > that the FFMPEG with rpmfusion for Fedora is pretty current, 2.1.4. > > Is there a repo out there that anybody knows of that has a relatively > current version of ffmpeg out for Centos 6? The thing is, as soon as you will get an issue, the devs will tell you to compile the latest version. Also, if you plan on using external codecs (like vpx, h265...), you will need the "matching" (not too old) libs when you compile ffmpeg. JD