FFmpeg Static Auto-Builds

Static Windows (x86_64) and Linux (x86_64) Builds of ffmpeg master and latest release branch.

Windows builds are targetting Windows 7 and newer, provided UCRT is installed. The minimum supported version is Windows 10 22H2, no guarantees on anything older.

Linux builds are targetting RHEL/CentOS 8 (glibc-2.28 + linux-4.18) and anything more recent.

Auto-Builds

Builds run daily at 12:00 UTC (or GitHubs idea of that time) and are automatically released on success.

Auto-Builds run ONLY for win64 and linux(arm)64. There are no win32/x86 auto-builds, though you can produce win32 builds yourself following the instructions below.

Release Retention Policy

• The last build of each month is kept for two years.
• The last 14 daily builds are kept.
• The special "latest" build floats and provides consistent URLs always pointing to the latest build.

Package List

For a list of included dependencies check the scripts.d directory. Every file corresponds to its respective package.

How to make a build

Prerequisites

• bash
• docker

Build Image

• ./makeimage.sh target variant [addin [addin] [addin] ...]

Build FFmpeg

• ./build.sh target variant [addin [addin] [addin] ...]

On success, the resulting zip file will be in the artifacts subdir.

FFmpeg itself is cloned from upstream FFmpeg/FFmpeg by default. Any patches in patches/ffmpeg/*.patch are applied with git am in lexical order before configure/build, so CI release builds include the same local FFmpeg patch stack.

CI validates shell scripts and the FFmpeg patch stack on branch pushes. Full FFmpeg builds only run for tags matching ffmpeg-*; pushing such a tag builds and publishes an immutable release for that exact tag, using latest-style asset names so consumers can pin only the release tag in their download URL. Use tags like ffmpeg-8.0.2-copyts-rollover.1 to encode the upstream FFmpeg version plus downstream patch/build revision.

Mutable channels such as stable-8.0, prod-8.0, or latest are updated only by the Promote FFmpeg Build workflow, which copies assets from an immutable ffmpeg-* release without rebuilding.

The release matrix is intentionally LMS-focused: linux64/linuxarm64 nonfree-shared 8.0 only, so LMS can use the same patched FFmpeg build for both command-line executables and libav* shared-library linkage. Unused BtbN kitchen-sink dependencies such as Whisper, AV1/VVC/APV/AVS codec stacks, hardware acceleration stacks, DVD/Bluray, and filter/device/plugin libraries are omitted.

Targets, Variants and Addins

Available targets:

• win64 (x86_64 Windows)
• win32 (x86 Windows)
• linux64 (x86_64 Linux, glibc>=2.28, linux>=4.18)
• linuxarm64 (arm64 (aarch64) Linux, glibc>=2.28, linux>=4.18)

The linuxarm64 target will not build some dependencies due to lack of arm64 (aarch64) architecture support or cross-compiling restrictions.

• davs2 and xavs2: aarch64 support is broken.
• libmfx and libva: Library for Intel QSV, so there is no aarch64 support.

Available variants:

• gpl Includes all dependencies, even those that require full GPL instead of just LGPL.
• lgpl Lacking libraries that are GPL-only. Most prominently libx264 and libx265.
• nonfree Includes fdk-aac in addition to all the dependencies of the gpl variant.
• gpl-shared Same as gpl, but comes with the libav* family of shared libs instead of pure static executables.
• lgpl-shared Same again, but with the lgpl set of dependencies.
• nonfree-shared Same again, but with the nonfree set of dependencies.

All of those can be optionally combined with any combination of addins:

• 4.4/5.0/5.1/6.0/6.1/7.0/7.1 to build from the respective release branch instead of master.
• debug to not strip debug symbols from the binaries. This increases the output size by about 250MB.
• lto build all dependencies and ffmpeg with -flto=auto (HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL, broken for Windows, sometimes works for Linux)