Wrong version in compiled ffmpeg

[klogg416]

I compiled this afternoon after making some of the changes related to ffnvcodec in issues #183 and #187. However the complied version reports as the ffmpeg-build-script version 1.45 and not ffmpeg 6.0.

$ /usr/bin/ffmpeg
ffmpeg version v1.45 Copyright (c) 2000-2023 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 11 (Ubuntu 11.3.0-1ubuntu1~22.04)
  configuration: --enable-nonfree --enable-gpl --enable-openssl --enable-libdav1d --enable-libsvtav1 --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libvpx --enable-libxvid --enable-libvidstab --enable-libaom --enable-libzimg --enable-lv2 --enable-libopencore_amrnb --enable-libopencore_amrwb --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libfdk-aac --enable-libwebp --enable-libsrt --enable-cuda-nvcc --enable-cuvid --enable-nvenc --enable-cuda-llvm --enable-libnpp --nvccflags='-gencode arch=compute_52,code=sm_52' --enable-amf --disable-debug --disable-doc --disable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-static --enable-small --enable-version3 --enable-ffnvcodec --extra-cflags='-I/home/kyle/git/ffmpeg-build-script/workspace/include -I/home/kyle/git/ffmpeg-build-script/workspace/include/lilv-0 -I/usr/local/cuda/include' --extra-ldexeflags= --extra-ldflags='-L/home/kyle/git/ffmpeg-build-script/workspace/lib -L/usr/local/cuda/lib64' --extra-libs='-ldl -lpthread -lm -lz' --pkgconfigdir=/home/kyle/git/ffmpeg-build-script/workspace/lib/pkgconfig --pkg-config-flags=--static --prefix=/home/kyle/git/ffmpeg-build-script/workspace --extra-version=
  libavutil      58.  2.100 / 58.  2.100
  libavcodec     60.  3.100 / 60.  3.100
  libavformat    60.  3.100 / 60.  3.100
  libavdevice    60.  1.100 / 60.  1.100
  libavfilter     9.  3.100 /  9.  3.100
  libswscale      7.  1.100 /  7.  1.100
  libswresample   4. 10.100 /  4. 10.100
  libpostproc    57.  1.100 / 57.  1.100
Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder
usage: ffmpeg [options] [[infile options] -i infile]... {[outfile options] outfile}...

Use -h to get full help or, even better, run 'man ffmpeg'

Really appreciate you preparing and maintaining this script, such a frustration saver.

[fxpoet]

same problem. (ubuntu 22.04 LTS + Cuda 12.1)
in console logs.

...
building ffmpeg - version 6.0
FFmpeg-release-6.0.tar.gz has already downloaded.
Extracted FFmpeg-release-6.0.tar.gz
...

$cat ./pacakges/FFmpeg-release-6.0/RELEASE
6.0

why...? I think it is ffmpeg's problem.

[biochem-fan]

I also encountered this problem.

Apparently FFmpeg's build system picks up the version number from Git (https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/master/ffbuild/version.sh#L6).

Building outside the ffmpeg-build-script directory or using a non-Git version of this script (i.e. a ZIP archive from the release page, not from git clone) probably solves the issue, although I myself didn't test it by repeating the build process.

[biochem-fan]

I confirmed the above works.

[markus-perl]

Please see #104

This only happens if you did a git clone. Either delete or rename the .git folder to solve the issue.