It appears that Ubuntu is moving from ffmpeg to avconv (Provided by libav - http://libav.org/)

Adding support for avconv as an alternative transcoder would be useful.

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Jorrit commented
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

It seems to be a fork of the original FFmpeg. Are the command line parameters the same? If so, you can just point the video module to the avconv binary. Have you tried that?

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leewillis77 commented

There's some information here:

http://libav.org/#fftools_rename

A preliminary test (Changing /usr/bin/ffmpeg to /usr/bin/avconv) suggests that it all works.

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Jorrit commented
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Postponed

Thanks for that link. Their intention is to keep the ffmpeg command around as well, so I will not address this issue immediately, but it is good to be prepared when avconv is more commonly installed.

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don greco commented

it won't let me point to usr/bin/avconv
I get :
FFmpeg not found at /usr/bin/avconv. To convert videos and create thumbnails you have to install FFmpeg on your server. For more information please see the documentation.
I also have FFMPEG installed

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Jorrit commented

For now, please point the module to /usr/bin/ffmpeg. When I have some time, I'll check what I can do to support avconv natively. Patches are welcome.

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Jorrit commented
Status: Postponed » Fixed

Fixed in 7.x-2.x-dev, will be in 7x.2-8.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.