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Hi,
Is it possible to download older versions from OS4Depot.
Looking to get the v. 2.8.5 ffmpeg.lha archive but its been replaced with v. 3.0.2.

If it's any help 2.6.1 is on aminet.
http://aminet.net/package/gfx/conv/ffmpeg_os4

@Severin

Thanks, but I have it now. MickJT kindly sent me a link to it.

@Jurassicc

OS4Depot.net is based on the idea that newest is always less buggy the oldest, this however not always case, sometime experimental versions, or new changes in software result in unpredictable bugs.

Unrelated, but in one of the versions of ffmpeg (2.5 I think), I screwed up something major and only files worked. No networking or special URI schemes.

What Jurassicc needed was a version that works with the concat: protocol.

The reason concat: or data: doesn't work in 3.0.2 is because of a different type of amiga-paths patch I used. Basically, if no :// is present in the full path name, then it's treated as a file path, and so concat: and data: will look for volumes with those names instead of being treated as protocols. If you actually have volumes with those names, in the upcoming version (and previous fully-working versions) you just need to insert a capital letter (i.e Data: instead of data:) and it'll treat it as a file path again. I don't want to break or remove any functionality.

A newer & fixed version will go up soonish (probably within a week).

concat can be used in 3.0.2 if you use a list file and -f concat. Check https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Concatenate

Since 2.8.7, you need to also use -safe 0 before -i if your concat paths are absolute (i.e contain the volume name).

Edit: A new build of 3.1.1 is available for testing using a different style of paths patch. PM me for a link.

@LiveForIt

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Interesting theory. Incorrect though.