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It seems that the original ffmpeg has been dropped by Debian for the moment (in favour of the fork libav) but will be back in 15.

Some people seem to think ffmpeg is deprecated or stale: it's not, it's just that in 2011, a group of devs decided to fork it as avcodec (libav).

I use get_iplayer for BBC downloads and that requires ffmpeg for its automated format conversions. So I was a bit surprised to find that a brand new install of Lubuntu 14.04 (LTS) doesn't include ffmpeg.

How can I install ffmpeg?

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Answer posted as Question:

There are lots of bits of advice on the web most of which doesn't work because of stale repositories and so on. Eventually, I found the advice below from elsewhere on stackoverflow.

I used this on Lubuntu 14.04

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/trusty-media
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

I opted not to do the distro-upgrade step, but it still worked overall for me.

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