"latest" is which variant?

[Paul Littlefield]

Hello Julien,

I have installed the "latest" docker image with this command ...

docker pull jrottenberg/ffmpeg:latest

... which lists as this ...

docker pull jrottenberg/ffmpeg:latest
latest: Pulling from jrottenberg/ffmpeg
Digest: sha256:21eb739725c43bd7187982e5fa4b5371b495d1d1f6f61ae1719ca794817f8641
Status: Image is up to date for jrottenberg/ffmpeg:latest
docker.io/jrottenberg/ffmpeg:latest

... and shows on the software as this "version ...

/usr/bin/docker run -v $(pwd):$(pwd) -w $(pwd) jrottenberg/ffmpeg
ffmpeg version 4.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2018 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 5.4.0 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.11) 20160609
  configuration: --disable-debug --disable-doc --disable-ffplay --enable-shared --enable-avresample --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-gpl --enable-libass --enable-libfreetype --enable-libvidstab --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx265 --enable-libxvid --enable-libx264 --enable-nonfree --enable-openssl --enable-libfdk_aac --enable-libkvazaar --enable-libaom --extra-libs=-lpthread --enable-postproc --enable-small --enable-version3 --extra-cflags=-I/opt/ffmpeg/include --extra-ldflags=-L/opt/ffmpeg/lib --extra-libs=-ldl --prefix=/opt/ffmpeg
  libavutil      56. 22.100 / 56. 22.100
  libavcodec     58. 35.100 / 58. 35.100
  libavformat    58. 20.100 / 58. 20.100
  libavdevice    58.  5.100 / 58.  5.100
  libavfilter     7. 40.101 /  7. 40.101
  libavresample   4.  0.  0 /  4.  0.  0
  libswscale      5.  3.100 /  5.  3.100
  libswresample   3.  3.100 /  3.  3.100
  libpostproc    55.  3.100 / 55.  3.100
Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder

How do I know which variant I have ?

Also, if I want the latest stable release, how would I choose that ?

Thanks,

Paully

[Commandcracker]

@plittlefield Also, if I want the latest stable release, how would I choose that ?

jrottenberg/ffmpeg:latest and jrottenberg/ffmpeg:snapshot are outdated
jrottenberg/ffmpeg:6.0-ubuntu is the latest ffmpeg release and
jrottenberg/ffmpeg:5.1.2-ubuntu2004 is the LTS version of ffmpeg
5.1.3 is the latest LTS ffmpeg release, but it is missing in this repo.

How do I know which variant I have ?

Latest is ffmpeg 4.1 with ubuntu 16.04