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[Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxx>]

Please restore ffmpeg.

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Title:
  Warning message from ffmpeg program needs update

Status in the libav multimedia framework:
  Fix Released
Status in “libav” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “libav” source package in Precise:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  The warning message from the ffmpeg program needs to be updated. It should instead say
  "*** THIS PROGRAM IS DEPRECATED ***\n"
  "This program is only provided for compatibility "
  "and will be removed in a future release. Please "
  "use avconv instead.\n"

  This is patched in Debian. See [1].

  [Impact] - Users are seeing a different message everytime they run the
  ffmpeg program. The original message is causing confusion amongst
  general users of the ffmpeg who are not aware that the ffmpeg program
  provided in Ubuntu is the ffmpeg program originally made available
  from the Libav project.

  [Development Fix] - Message just needs to be updated. See [1]. Note
  that the ffmpeg binary has been dropped completely in the development
  tree in libav.

  [Stable Fix] - See [1].

  [Test Case] - Just run the ffmpeg program. Running 'ffmpeg -L' is sufficient to see the warning. The original warning reads,
  "This program is not developed anymore and is only "
  "provided for compatibility. Use avconv instead "
  "(see Changelog for the list of incompatible changes).\n"
  The new warning should read,
  "*** THIS PROGRAM IS DEPRECATED ***\n"
  "This program is only provided for compatibility "
  "and will be removed in a future release. Please "
  "use avconv instead.\n"

  [Regression Potential] - There's no potential regression.

  1. http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-
  multimedia/libav.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/04-ffmpeg-warning-
  change.patch;h=0472d450a743ff0b3918c80e91da16d4c4b35d2b;hb=HEAD

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