diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 9f65b8d..efb16a1 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Vcs-Git: https://github.com/boltgolt/howdy
 Package: howdy
 Homepage: https://github.com/boltgolt/howdy
 Architecture: all
-Depends: ${misc:Depends}, curl|wget, python3, python3-pip, python3-dev, python3-setuptools, libpam-python, fswebcam, libopencv-dev, cmake, ffmpeg
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}, curl|wget, python3, python3-pip, python3-dev, python3-setuptools, libpam-python, fswebcam, libopencv-dev, cmake, fswebcam
 Recommends: libatlas-base-dev | libopenblas-dev | liblapack-dev
 Suggests: nvidia-cuda-dev (>= 7.5)
 Description: Howdy: Windows Hello style authentication for Linux.
diff --git a/debian/preinst b/debian/preinst
index 3a5ce2c..8430d4a 100755
--- a/debian/preinst
+++ b/debian/preinst
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ for dev in devices:
 
 	# Let fswebcam keep the camera open in the background
 	sub = subprocess.Popen(
-		"ffmpeg -f v4l2 -framerate 25 -video_size 640_480 -i /dev/v4l/by-path/%s -f null -loglevel -8 /dev/null" % dev,
+                "fswebcam -l 1 -d /dev/v4l/by-path/%s" % dev,
 		shell=True,
 		preexec_fn=os.setsid,
 		stdout=subprocess.PIPE,