diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index d44973e2e..59018e553 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 language: cpp
+sudo: required
+dist: trusty
 notifications:
   irc: "chat.freenode.net#zoneminder-dev"
 branches:
@@ -24,7 +26,7 @@ before_install:
   - sudo apt-get update -qq
   - sudo apt-get install -y -qq libpolkit-gobject-1-dev zlib1g-dev apache2 mysql-server php5 php5-mysql build-essential libmysqlclient-dev libssl-dev libbz2-dev libpcre3-dev libdbi-perl libarchive-zip-perl libdate-manip-perl libdevice-serialport-perl libmime-perl libwww-perl libdbd-mysql-perl libsys-mmap-perl yasm automake autoconf cmake libjpeg-turbo8-dev apache2-mpm-prefork libapache2-mod-php5 php5-cli libtheora-dev libvorbis-dev libvpx-dev libx264-dev libvlccore-dev libvlc-dev libvlccore5 libvlc5 2>&1 > /dev/null 
 install:
-  - git clone -b n2.8.1 --depth=1 git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
+  - git clone -b n2.8.6 --depth=1 git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
   - cd ffmpeg
   - ./configure --enable-shared --enable-swscale --enable-gpl  --enable-libx264 --enable-libvpx --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora 
   - make -j `grep processor /proc/cpuinfo|wc -l`