[Libav-user] Could not find codec parameters

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Emanuel Berg <embe8573 at ...> writes:

> Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ...> writes:
> 
> > This mailing list is related to the FFmpeg project.
> > avconv contains several hundred known, user-reported
> > bugs that are not reproducible with FFmpeg, please
> > understand that we cannot support it.
> 
> OK :)
> 
> ffmpeg isn't in the default Debian repos for whatever
> reason 

See http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html 
for the reason, you should be able to get it from 
experimental now thanks to the work of Andreas Cadhalpun:
https://packages.qa.debian.org/f/ffmpeg.html

> but I don't have a problem using it after getting it with
> 
>     deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org jessie main non-free

I don't know much about Debian but users reported that 
this repo may break other things (especially if you are 
mixing deb-multimedia packages with packages from 
debian multimedia).

> and now the same command works with no problem.

Thank you for testing!

Carl Eugen