Installing more updated version of ffmpeg on Debian 5 (Lenny)‏

Problem: 
my ffmpeg chain-of-command used in my mp3 to Youtube uploader didn’t work with some error. Something like this:

error, non monotone timestamps 1 >= 0

I’m trying to ‘place’ the site on a Debian 5 (Lenny) server. I’m using ffmpeg from Debian 5 repository (with no additional repo added).
Cause:
the ffmpeg version installed is ‘too old‘, it has bugs that casing the conversion fail.

Solution: 
get the most updated version of ffmpeg for Debian 5 (Lenny)
You need to add Debian-multimedia repository into your /etc/apt/sources.list

• grab debian-multimedia keyring from here: http://www.debian-multimedia.org/pool/main/d/debian-multimedia-keyring/debian-multimedia-keyring_2010.12.26_all.deb
• install it using dpkg

dpkg -i debian-multimedia-keyring_2010.12.26_all.deb

• add one of their repo (or choose mirror available here: http://debian-multimedia.org/debian-m.php) to /etc/apt/sources.list, add this line (from one of their main repo server):

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable main non-free

• update your package list and upgrade old packages

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

• reinstall ffmpeg:

apt-get install ffmpeg

done!

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