Why are there so may ffmpeg version? ffmpeg-4, ffmpeg-2 ffmpeg-7 and so on?

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I noticed that i have ffmpeg-4 installed but there are other packages available like ffmpeg-7. Why is that so?

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Because the ffmpeg developers only guarantee API, ABI and backwards compatibility within a major version.

https://ffmpeg.org/doxygen/trunk/index.html

More documentation can be found here Documentation

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Currently I have ffmpeg-4 installed, not special use case. Does that mean I can install ffmpeg-7 and then remove ffmpeg-4 as long the zypper dependencies are satisfied?

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Why would you want to do that?

As longs as your system functions to satisfaction, why meddle with it?

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I have to confess that i did not read the documentation as deep as i maybe should have, but I am under the impression, that the higher versions are newer and maybe have more features

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Those “new” versions will be automatically installed as soon as an updated application requires them via a zypper dependency…

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Then it is ok for me to wait, thanks

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