Andrew,
Looking forward to you and your dog's return (keep the dog away from the remote control because they like to chew that!)

Not really related to appimage, but I compiled corresponding source
(cingg git commit eabda9cf447580a974fd3d67a3d0a26f09aeb523)
and it works fine for simple playback/fade curve test.

Because I was compiling with ffmpeg git (commit ec4c04aa7b5a0c7a91e4a65775826283d23e08ac)
additional small patch for ffmpeg.git.patch3 was needed:
 
I will save the patch file for case you and the dog get lost, but otherwise will wait for you and ffmpeg 4.4 testing.
Also, I need your help on fileffmpeg.C where I had to comment out the line "ff->video_probe(1);" because it uses memory and does not return it. ...Phyllis