How to install ffmpeg 4.4.2 or higher on Ubuntu 20.04 server

[Keith]

On 12/28/23 3:53 AM, Bo Berglund wrote:
> I have run into a problem with ffmpeg on my Ubuntu 20.04 LTS server...
> 
> The server is used for many things like Subversion server, OpenVPN server, Video
> file server and more.
> 
> Now I found an error in one of the video downloaders used on this server which
> is apparently resolved in ffmpeg 4.4 and above.
> 
> On this server I have:
> 
> apt policy ffmpeg
> ffmpeg:
>    Installed: 7:4.3.2-0york0~18.04
>    Candidate: 7:4.3.2-0york0~18.04
> 
> On another server which was upgraded to 22.04 a few months back I see:
> 
> $ apt policy ffmpeg
> ffmpeg:
>    Installed: (none)
>    Candidate: 7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1+esm3
> 
> So the 4.4.2 version is on Ubuntu 22 and 4.3.2 on Ubuntu 20...
> 
> How can I force the installation of the newer version of ffmpeg on my server
> 20.04?
> 
> I cannot upgrade the server to 22.04 since it is mission-critical..
> 

The official ffmpeg site, https://ffmpeg.org, links to 
https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/ on its download page for static builds 
of ffmpeg which is at version 6.1. May it would work?

-- 
Keith