I needed a better supported ffmpeg for our video sharing needs at Duuit! just trying to keep things reproducible by documenting.
The first package to install is debian-multimedia-keyring.
First download the debian-multimedia-keyring package.
sudo dpkg -i debian-multimedia-keyring_2008.10.16_all.deb
Now add to the sources.list
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http:/
/ www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main non-free deb ftp:/
/ ftp.debian-multimedia.org lenny main non-free deb-src http:/
/ www.debian-multimedia.org sid main deb-src ftp:/
/ ftp.debian-multimedia.org sid main sudo apt-get update
your ready to go.
sudo apt-get build-dep ffmpeg
sudo apt-get -b source ffmpeg
There will be more than one .deb file here, just install each like so:
sudo dpkg -i filenames.deb
It's not working at the moment so instead do this:
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
Done. :)