Imagination can not export

[Gary J. Kirkpatrick]

On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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>

Thanks!
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