album cannot extract movie frame from MPEG movies with ffmpeg

Binary package hint: album

album is not able to extract a movie frame from MPEG movies with ffmpeg. Here is the error reported:

[home/jivemind/pictures] $ album
Read conf: pictures/album.conf
Images: pictures [XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX ]
[album] Error extracting movie frame:
        /home/jivemind/pictures/example.MPG

        Do you have ffmpeg installed? http://ffmpeg.org
Images: pictures [XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX]

Ubuntu version: 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)

All packages came out of the box, in particular:

album version: v3.04

ffmpeg version:
$ ffmpeg -version
FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-pthreads --enable-vorbis --enable-libogg --enable-a52 --enable-dts --enable-libgsm --enable-dc1394 --disable-debug --enable-mp3lame --enable-faadbin --enable-faad --enable-faac --enable-xvid --enable-x264 --enable-amr_nb --enable-amr_wb --enable-shared --prefix=/usr
  libavutil version: 0d.49.0.0
  libavcodec version: 0d.51.11.0
  libavformat version: 0d.50.5.0
  built on Mar 21 2007 14:14:05, gcc: 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)
ffmpeg SVN-rUNKNOWN
libavutil 3211264
libavcodec 3345152
libavformat 3278080

SOLUTION:

In line 3917, album calls ffmpeg with the option "-f singlejpeg".
The format "singlejpeg" is not supported by the version of ffmpeg coming with APT.
It is sufficient to replace "singlejpeg" with "mjpeg" in line 3917.
***Warning:*** This has not been tested with non-MPEG movies.