ImageMagick 7.0.8-62 Q16 installs older FFMpeg 3.4

[JimMcKeeth]

I previously had FFmpeg 4.2 installed on my Windows computer. I installed ImageMagick 7.0.8-62 Q16 and it includes FFmpeg 3.4, which is older and doesn't support palettegen correctly. Unfortunately ImageMagick got ahead of FFmpeg on the path and I spent way too much time trying to figure out why palettegen stopped working.

Suggested Resolutions:

1. Check to see if FFmpeg is installed before installing an older version
2. Update the installer to include the latest version of FFmpeg
3. If ImageMagick needs the older version of FFmpeg then put it in a sub-directory that isn't on the path

Thanks!

[JimMcKeeth]

I realize FFmpeg is optional during the install, but it is selected by default. I just rechecked this with version 7.0.8-63 Q16 x64 2019-08-31 and the behavior is the same.

[JimMcKeeth]

Submitted a bug on GitHub
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1693

[magick]

Thanks for the problem report. We can reproduce it and have a patch in the current release of ImageMagick, 7.0.8-64.