# Getting ffmpeg crash on Linux

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/getting-ffmpeg-crash-on-linux/44957>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [November 3, 2025, 11:02pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/getting-ffmpeg-crash-on-linux/44957 "2025-11-03T23:02:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![muratmaga](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/muratmaga/32/3622_2.png) [@muratmaga](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/muratmaga)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2025, 11:02pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/getting-ffmpeg-crash-on-linux/44957/1 "2025-11-03T23:02:24Z")

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On ubuntu 22.04, ScreenCapture is crashing with the latest preview with this error. I presume this is an ABI issue?

```auto
/usr/bin/ffmpeg -nostdin -y -r 60 -start_number 0 -i /tmp/Slicer-NCcZBZ/Slicer-%04d.png -codec mpeg4 -qscale 5 /home/exouser/Animation.mp4 ffmpeg error output: /usr/bin/ffmpeg: symbol lookup error: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssh-gcrypt.so.4: undefined symbol: GSS_C_NT_USER_NAME, version gssapi_krb5_2_MIT

```

FFmpeg is install via apt and there doesn’t seem like a newer version.

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**Author:** ![muratmaga](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/muratmaga/32/3622_2.png) [@muratmaga](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/muratmaga)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2025, 12:05am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/getting-ffmpeg-crash-on-linux/44957/2 "2025-11-04T00:05:31Z")

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Static release from [https://github.com/eugeneware/ffmpeg-static/releases](https://github.com/eugeneware/ffmpeg-static/releases) (ffmpeg-linux-x64) works without a problem. hopefully others can see this thread and avoid installing the apt package.

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**Author:** ![pieper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pieper/32/8_2.png) [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2025, 1:08pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/getting-ffmpeg-crash-on-linux/44957/3 "2025-11-04T13:08:26Z")

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@jcfr is this due to the same issues we had with git and kerberos?

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**Author:** ![chir.set](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/chir.set/32/66982_2.png) [@chir.set](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/chir.set)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2025, 5:08pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/getting-ffmpeg-crash-on-linux/44957/4 "2025-11-04T17:08:09Z")

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On Arch stock `ffmpeg` works as expected with `5.9.0-2025-11-03 r34025 / cbf73a6` and `ScreenCapture`. Just a ping.