diff --git a/Readme.md b/Readme.md
index c12c6538b..a096f77e9 100644
--- a/Readme.md
+++ b/Readme.md
@@ -351,6 +351,13 @@ Install cmake version 3:
- `sudo apt-get remove cmake` (if already installed)
- `sudo apt-get install cmake`
+
Prerequisites for 16.04 LTS
+
+You need to install the ffmpeg v.3 suite. Therefore you will need to add this PPA to the sources list using this command:
+`sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/ffmpeg-3`
+
+Then do `sudo apt-get update` and go to the next step. Alternatively if you have an older version of ffmpeg suite already installed just do `sudo apt-get dist-upgrde`.
+
With newer versions just do:
- `sudo apt-get install cmake g++ pkg-config libfftw3-dev libqt5multimedia5-plugins qtmultimedia5-dev qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libqt5opengl5-dev qtbase5-dev libusb-1.0 librtlsdr-dev libboost-all-dev libasound2-dev pulseaudio libnanomsg-dev libopencv-dev libsqlite3-dev libxml2-dev bison flex ffmpeg libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev`
diff --git a/plugins/channelrx/CMakeLists.txt b/plugins/channelrx/CMakeLists.txt
index 66b1f515f..68bde180f 100644
--- a/plugins/channelrx/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/plugins/channelrx/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -15,8 +15,14 @@ if(LIBDSDCC_FOUND AND LIBMBE_FOUND)
endif(LIBDSDCC_FOUND AND LIBMBE_FOUND)
find_package(FFmpeg)
-if(FFMPEG_FOUND)
- add_subdirectory(demoddatv)
+if (FFMPEG_FOUND)
+ # You can only get FFmpeg version from the command line
+ EXECUTE_PROCESS(COMMAND ffmpeg -version COMMAND grep ffmpeg COMMAND cut -d\ -f3 COMMAND tr -d '\n' OUTPUT_VARIABLE FFMPEG_VERSION)
+ message(STATUS "FFmpeg version ${FFMPEG_VERSION} found")
+ if(FFMPEG_VERSION VERSION_GREATER "3.1")
+ message(STATUS "Include demoddatv")
+ add_subdirectory(demoddatv)
+ endif()
endif()
if (BUILD_DEBIAN)