crippled

[whitis]

Not only did you cripple ffmpeg so that it doesn't support encoding to most commonly used formats but you also failed to include webm/vp8 support, and you disabled support for existing codecs before adding vp8. And the version of ffmpeg is way behind upstream. So, upgrading ffmpeg turned into a major downgrade.

Yeah, there are IP issues with the codecs. blah. blah. blah. People have been using ffmpeg for a decade. And you spring this change on us without our knowledge or consent, breaking most uses of the package and don't even have the decency to call the package ffmpeg-crippled, let alone provide a non-free package to uncripple it.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: ffmpeg 3:0.svn20090303-1ubuntu6.2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ffmpeg-debian
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

just install the package 'ubuntu-restricted-extras', which in turn will install 'libavcodec-extra-52' from universe. This package does come with x264 and libvpx encoding support.