On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 11:47 AM, The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > If I remember my timeline of events correctly, this is because there was > no ffmpeg package in jessie; the libav fork was present in its place. (I > thought libav had still been providing a ffmpeg dummy package, but I may > be remembering wrong.) > > When ffmpeg itself was packaged for Debian again, apparently it didn't > make it in in time to be included in the jessie release, but it did get > added to stretch after jessie was released. (If I remember and interpret > matters correctly, libav has been removed from stretch.) > > If you want the jessie-era libav* packages, try installing libav-tools > instead of ffmpeg. You won't get exactly the same commands or > functionality, but most of it should be similar enough for many purposes.
OK, it looks like I stepped into a truly crazy one today... Thanks for the info!
