Comment 36 for bug 939863

This program is not, nor has it ever been, "deprecated". A fork can't "deprecate" the original while the original is still in development. Therefore, this message is *still* highly misleading.

After a long day of compiling my own ffmpeg and recompiling the programs I had that depended on libav after the libav fork consistently failed to produce working results in an RTMP streaming setup, I decided to create my own little script that runs whenever anything on my system tries to run "avconv" instead of "ffmpeg."

I won't bore you with it but it begins "*** THIS PROGRAM IS CRAP ***" and goes from there.