There's a new release of gst-plugins-ffmpeg available... 0.8.7. It compiled fine with amd64, too! woo! http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/news/ Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
The latest version of GStreamer FFmpeg is 0.8.3, and nowhere on that page does it say otherwise. You might be confusing the gstreamer-plugins package with the seperate ffmpeg package, in which case we already have the latest 0.8.9 release in the tree