diff --git a/external/bin/ffmpeg b/external/bin/ffmpeg
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-../ffmpeg/bin/ffmpeg
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-../ffmpeg/bin/ffprobe
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diff --git a/external/ffmpeg/bin/ffmpeg_cuda b/external/ffmpeg/bin/ffmpeg_cuda
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-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:7f32ffc250a25c87f3ae80d5886f9604ff28966241c53d010e00dcdff9d788f7
-size 21915808
diff --git a/external/ffmpeg/bin/ffplay b/external/ffmpeg/bin/ffplay
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diff --git a/external/ffmpeg/build.sh b/external/ffmpeg/build.sh
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-#!/bin/bash -e
-
-### EXCELENT GUIDE TO STATIC COMPILATION!
-### https://gist.github.com/Brainiarc7/988473b79fd5c8f0db54b92ebb47387a
-
-cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")"
-
-# main binaries from ffmpeg-static
-#wget http://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/releases/ffmpeg-release-64bit-static.tar.xz
-#tar xvf ffmpeg-release-64bit-static.tar.xz
-#cp ffmpeg-3.2.2-64bit-static/ffmpeg bin/
-#cp ffmpeg-3.2.2-64bit-static/ffprobe bin/
-
-rm -rf nasm-2.14.02
-wget http://www.nasm.us/pub/nasm/releasebuilds/2.14.02/nasm-2.14.02.tar.gz
-tar xzvf nasm-2.14.02.tar.gz
-pushd nasm-2.14.02
-  ./configure
-  make -j$(nproc) VERBOSE=1
-  sudo make -j$(nproc) install
-  make -j$(nproc) distclean
-popd
-
-rm -rf nv-codec-headers
-git clone https://git.videolan.org/git/ffmpeg/nv-codec-headers.git
-pushd nv-codec-headers
-  sudo make install
-popd
-
-rm -rf fdk-aac
-git clone https://github.com/mstorsjo/fdk-aac
-pushd fdk-aac
-  autoreconf -fiv
-  ./configure --disable-shared
-  make -j$(nproc)
-  sudo make -j$(nproc) install
-  make -j$(nproc) distclean
-popd
-
-rm -rf x264
-git clone http://git.videolan.org/git/x264.git -b stable
-pushd x264/
-  ./configure --enable-static --enable-pic --bit-depth=all
-  make -j$(nproc) VERBOSE=1
- sudo make -j$(nproc) install VERBOSE=1
-  make -j$(nproc) distclean
-popd
-
-# binary with cuda decoding enabled
-#git clone --depth 1 git@github.com:commaai/ffmpeg.git
-rm -rf ffmpeg
-git clone https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
-pushd ffmpeg
-  # replace npp dynamic lib refs with static lib refs
-  sed 's/-lnpp\(\w\+\)/-lnpp\1_static/g' configure > configure_npp_static
-  chmod ug+x configure_npp_static
-  ./configure_npp_static --pkg-config-flags="--static" --enable-static --disable-debug --disable-alsa --enable-libfdk-aac --enable-libx264 --disable-ffplay --disable-libxcb --disable-sdl2 --enable-cuda-nvcc --enable-cuvid --enable-nvenc --enable-libnpp --enable-nonfree --enable-gpl --extra-cflags=-I/usr/local/cuda/include --extra-ldflags=-L/usr/local/cuda/lib64 --extra-libs="-lcudart_static -lculibos -ldl -lrt -pthread -lstdc++"
-  make -j10
-  # replaced by above sed and specifying --extra-libs="-lcudart_static -lculibos -ldl -lrt -pthread -lstdc++"
-  ### manually build last few libs statically
-  ##g++ -Llibavcodec -Llibavdevice -Llibavfilter -Llibavformat -Llibavresample -Llibavutil -Llibpostproc -Llibswscale -Llibswresample -L/usr/local/cuda/lib64  -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,noexecstack -Wl,--warn-common -Wl,-rpath-link=libpostproc:libswresample:libswscale:libavfilter:libavdevice:libavformat:libavcodec:libavutil:libavresample   -o ffmpeg_g cmdutils.o ffmpeg_opt.o ffmpeg_filter.o ffmpeg.o ffmpeg_cuvid.o -lavdevice -lavfilter -lavformat -lavcodec -lswresample -lswscale -lavutil -ldl -ldl -l:libnppi_static.a -l:libnppc_static.a -l:libcudart_static.a -l:libculibos.a -lrt -lm -l:liblzma.a -l:libbz2.a -l:libz.a -pthread
-  ##cp ffmpeg_g ffmpeg
-  ##strip ffmpeg
-popd
-cp ffmpeg/ffmpeg bin/ffmpeg
diff --git a/external/ffmpeg/larch64/.gitignore b/external/ffmpeg/larch64/.gitignore
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-ffmpeg-4.2.2*
diff --git a/external/ffmpeg/larch64/build.sh b/external/ffmpeg/larch64/build.sh
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-#!/bin/bash -e
-sudo apt-get remove ffmpeg libavcodec-dev
-
-sudo apt-get update -qq && sudo apt-get -y install \
-  autoconf \
-  automake \
-  build-essential \
-  cmake \
-  git-core \
-  libass-dev \
-  libfreetype6-dev \
-  libsdl2-dev \
-  libtool \
-  libva-dev \
-  libvdpau-dev \
-  libvorbis-dev \
-  libxcb1-dev \
-  libxcb-shm0-dev \
-  libxcb-xfixes0-dev \
-  pkg-config \
-  texinfo \
-  wget \
-  zlib1g-dev
-wget https://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-4.2.2.tar.bz2
-tar xvf ffmpeg-4.2.2.tar.bz2
-cd ffmpeg-4.2.2
-
-./configure --enable-shared
-make -j8
-make install
-