ffmpeg snap compatibility is broken by ffplay naming convention about restream HOT 5 CLOSED

There are a few reasons why someone would want to use snap installs

• snaps include all dependencies, which is very useful if ffmpeg gets finicky w.r.t. upstream library versioning
• installing an up-to-date ffmpeg on an older ubuntu machine often requires additionally adding a PPA, while the snap repository works the same across different ubuntu/debian versions
• snaps are automatically updated via snap refreshes, so this is useful on managed systems where admins don't want to handle to run apt-get upgrade
• snaps are a preferred package in a hermetic ecosystem like Ubuntu Core

So there are a number of reasons why people use snaps. You can read more about them here: https://snapcraft.io/docs

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My suggestion would be to alias ffplay as ffmpeg.ffplay instead of modifying the script.

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Just so I know, why are you using snap installs and not direct host versions if you're on Ubuntu ?
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg lz4 isn't working ? I would find it strange.

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Thanks 👍

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Feel free to make a PR to put the ffplay and ffmpeg executables in an environment variable. However it is also easily fixable by replacing the ffplay command in the script.

I'll close this issue for now at has been open for quite a while 🙂

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