I had the same problem. This was fixed by installing gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg as part of a fix for Ubuntu 14.04 to provide full support for the H.264 codec. Installing gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg provides all of the necessary dependencies that are missing from arista transcoder in 14.04.
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg -y -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1306592 Title: Problem with GStreamer element ffdeinterlace in Arista To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/arista/+bug/1306592/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs