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   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-07-16 11:13, Janis Papanagnou wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Telcontar:~ # ldd /usr/bin/ffmpeg | wc -l   
   109   
   Telcontar:~ #   
      
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