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Hi I currently use ffmpeg in my web app, but i now require ffmpeg 5.1< (which is the latest stable release) due to some new features. I cannot however upgrade the ffmpeg library in the console due to permissions.

How can i upgrade my ffmpeg to the latest stable release?

Thanks in advance, Fin.

You can update you system image to get a newer version of ffmepg: https://help.pythonanywhere.com/pages/ChangingSystemImage/

Hi, thanks for the reply. My account page says that i have the latest system image, glastonbury?

Apologies. Looks like you hit a bug where some users didn't get the update option. We have fixed it now so you should be able to update your system image.

No worries! I've now changed to haggis, restarted all my consoles, and now outside of my venv python --version is returning 3.10 which i guess means I've updated ok. However, ffmpeg -version is still showing version 4.2.7?

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ffmpeg is showing that 5.1 has been uploaded to Ubuntu unless i'm misunderstanding/misreading it (entirely possible).

Have i updated wrong at all? Also will this update affect my venv as well? That is where the ffmpeg calls will be made, but still need py 3.7 in the venv.

Thanks

Ok, then that is the most recent ffmpeg that is available on PythonAnywhere.