I finally got it working by following a sequence suggested in another context. The poster, who was dealing with a'libx264' problem in Openshot.
He "added debian-multimedia into list of sources. removed and re-installed ffmpeg. also x264 appeared in the list in Synaptic, so was also installed."
<http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/openshot-does-not-see-codecs-864146/>
Still need to get pulseaudio installed and working, but hopeful on that front.
Thank you again for taking the trouble to write this tutorial,
I finally got it working by following a sequence suggested in another context. The poster, who was dealing with a'libx264' problem in Openshot.
He "added debian-multimedia into list of sources. removed and re-installed ffmpeg. also x264 appeared in the list in Synaptic, so was also installed."
<http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/openshot-does-not-see-codecs-864146/>
Still need to get pulseaudio installed and working, but hopeful on that front.
Thank you again for taking the trouble to write this tutorial,
Aron