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Comment by jamiesonbecker | Hacker News Reader

Use the version at http://deb-multimedia.org

    echo "deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org stable main non-free" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/deb-multimedia.org.list
    apt-get -q update; apt-get -qy dist-upgrade
    apt-get -qqy install ffmpeg

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Debian unstable has official ffmpeg packages, and as soon as the next release completes, those packages will migrate to testing and future stable.

Seems unlikely that the security team would be happy having both ffmpeg and libav in Debian, so a GR would be needed to override them.

There are a number of useful codecs and filters that have non-free licenses. Debian packages will never have them enabled. Self compiles are the only way to get the ffmpeg kitchen sink.

Almost all of the questionably licensed and non-free codecs were removed from ffmpeg years ago. The only remaining bits left are those for AAC support via libfaac, and ffmpeg has its own reimplemented version of AAC that doesn't depend on libfaac.

You might be thinking of mplayer, which has extensive support for non-free codecs, such as the "w32codecs" bundle.

I always build my own as, afaik, it's the only way to get full support for the more interesting codecs e.g. fdkaac & h265.

You can ask him to add them, he's pretty responsive to requests.

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