Comment 8 for bug 1263278

Use cases:
- transcode camcorder videos into something I can share with family and friends over the internet
- sometimes improve them (e.g. deshacking http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYE3KAl8RAQ&feature=youtu.be)
- automatically build thumbnails and navigation tree of my home videos collection for viewing on different flavours of home media players, ranging from HTPC to tablets
- transcode my archived audio collection to support newer media players

avconv/libav has been doing an OK job, but has not improved over the past two years. So I gave ffmpeg a try and it is so much better. Moreover, at some point in the Fall of 2013 avconv had a regression and would not properly transcode my live lecture recordings (plain WAV) to AAC.

Reading about the fork and the circumstances that lead to the current situation, all I can say is that:
(1) competition is good
(2) variety is the spice of life
(3) I wish both projects well
(4) I, as a user, made a choice, and I wish that the debian/ubuntu maintainers of the libav project would respect that user choice.

Lucky me, there is an easy solution:

https://launchpad.net/~jon-severinsson/+archive/ffmpeg

# Replace avconv with the real ffmpeg
# www.askubuntu.com/a/373509/165265
#
sudo apt-get purge libav-tools
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jon-severinsson/ffmpeg
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
sudo apt-get install frei0r-plugins # recommended
sudo apt-get --purge autoremove