diff --git a/conda/bob-devel/meta.yaml b/conda/bob-devel/meta.yaml
index c9f04c6c25ee596f0707701443870b5750af31c9..05d24ded17f99466b4106af465dc2aaf35bef4a4 100644
--- a/conda/bob-devel/meta.yaml
+++ b/conda/bob-devel/meta.yaml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ requirements:
     - cyvlfeat 0.4.6
     - dlib 19.7
     - docopt 0.6.2
-    - ffmpeg 3.4
+    - ffmpeg 4.0
     - freetype 2.9.1
     - giflib 5.1.4
     - hdf5 1.10.1