Imagination can not export

[Nils Kassube]

Gary J. Kirkpatrick wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 8:07 AM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> > Gary J. Kirkpatrick wrote:
> > > I make lots of slideshows and have been using Imagination. 
> > > However it does not work in 14.04
> > > 
> > > I get this error message.
> > > 
> > > Failed to execute child process "ffmpeg" (No such file or
> > > directory).
> > > 
> > > I have not been able to find any solutions so far so maybe someone
> > > knows how to add the  ffmpeg that's missing
> > 
> > You can replace ffmped by avconv which is available in 14.04.

> Synaptics found avconv associated with Winff, which is a converter and
> does not list avconv separately so I do not see how to install it
> from there. Software also just comes up with Winff.

Sorry, I thought there was a package named avconv but actually the 
package is libav-tools.

> An internet search did not reveal any way to sub one for the other. 

Well, thinking about it a bit further, it may be a matter of your 
application which searches for ffmpeg and probably doesn't know avconv 
is a replacement. So my previous reply probably wasn't too helpful. 
Anyway, I think you could install libav-tools and then create a link 
ffmpeg -> avconv like this:

sudo ln -s avconv /usr/bin/ffmpeg

Then your application should find avconv instead of ffmpeg.


Nils