As a user trying to debug commands suggested on internet didn't work because your version of ffmpeg wasn't actually ffmpeg was kind of insane. And that might be because other applications assumed that "ffmpeg" wasn't something else.
I agree with your sentiment but this is one step further, more akin of active sabotage. How ubuntu just went along with this is beyond me.
As a user trying to debug commands suggested on internet didn't work because your version of ffmpeg wasn't actually ffmpeg was kind of insane. And that might be because other applications assumed that "ffmpeg" wasn't something else.
I agree with your sentiment but this is one step further, more akin of active sabotage. How ubuntu just went along with this is beyond me.