Install ffmpeg (or equivalent) on Ubuntu Server 14.04

[jeff1evesque]

Since our developing environment has changed to Ubuntu Server 14.04, a simple installation of ffmpeg is no longer possible:

$ sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package ffmpeg is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'ffmpeg' has no installation candidate

Therefore, we need to either install ffmpeg through a ppa, or install it's equivalent avconv.

[jeff1evesque]

IRC #ffmpeg (07/27/14 ~ 9:00pm EST):

jeffreylevesque: i just installed ubuntu 14.04 (was using 11.04). ffmpeg is no longer available in apt-get. Should i get a PPA? jeffreylevesque: JEEB, are conversion times the same?

JEEB: jeffreylevesque, yes JEEB: conversion times are mostly controlled by the encoder, and thus it's more dependant on libx264 than FFmpeg/Libav

jeffreylevesque: JEEB, do you recommend ffmpeg, or avconv?

JEEB: there shouldn't be a large difference unless something you need is only in FFmpeg JEEB: and given that you came from 11.04 I guess you don't at least right now have any needs regarding that JEEB: you'll have to get used to the new command line stuff that elenril made anyways, and that's in both

IRC #ubuntu (07/27/14 ~ 9:00pm EST):

jeffreylevesque: cfhowlett, do you recommend avconv, or ffmpeg?

cfhowlett: jeffreylevesque ffmpeg still runs fine for me and is supported in US. Could be that the deprecate message needs updating/deleteing cfhowlett jeffreylevesque run a terminal: apt-cache show libav-tools you'll get valuable info.

[jeff1evesque]

We installed avconv:

$ sudo apt-get install libav-tools

and will need to make respective changes within our bash script, converter_wav_rate.