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   From: janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com   
      
   On 16.07.2025 10:37, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 08:13:32 +0200, Herbert Kleebauer wrote:   
   >   
   >> I suppose, most people already have ffmpeg installed (it is a   
   >> command line tool, so it doesn't need to be "installed", but just   
   >> copied to your disk) ...   
   >   
   >     ldo@theon:~> ls -l /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg   
   >     -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 361952 Dec 15  2024 /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg   
   >   
   > Not large, but   
   >   
   >     ldo@theon:~> ldd /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg   
      
   [ huge list of about 300 libraries snipped ]   
      
   > has a lot library dependencies, to implement its plethora of handlers   
   > for formats, codecs, filters etc.   
      
   I would expect for a movie processing program to need many libraries,   
   as you say, for codecs, etc.   
      
   But the list you got is absurd; it contains things like samba, ldap,   
   and whatnot. (I wonder what platform you're using, and how the tool   
   had been built, given that it's in /usr/local.)   
      
   Here's the number of libraries on my Linux system   
      
   $ ldd /usr/bin/ffmpeg | wc -l   
   39   
      
   which (in detail) all look like a quite sensible choice of libraries.   
      
   Janis   
      
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