diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 0b9a5d4ac11..8293a166eb8 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 import subprocess
 import distutils.command.clean
 import distutils.spawn
+from distutils.version import StrictVersion
 import glob
 import shutil
 
@@ -346,6 +347,19 @@ def get_extensions():
 
     ffmpeg_exe = distutils.spawn.find_executable('ffmpeg')
     has_ffmpeg = ffmpeg_exe is not None
+    if has_ffmpeg:
+        try:
+            ffmpeg_version = subprocess.run(
+                'ffmpeg -version | head -n1', shell=True,
+                stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout.decode('utf-8')
+            ffmpeg_version = ffmpeg_version.split('version')[-1].split()[0]
+            if StrictVersion(ffmpeg_version) >= StrictVersion('4.3'):
+                print(f'ffmpeg {ffmpeg_version} not supported yet, please use ffmpeg 4.2.')
+                has_ffmpeg = False
+        except (IndexError, ValueError):
+            print('Error fetching ffmpeg version, ignoring ffmpeg.')
+            has_ffmpeg = False
+
     print("FFmpeg found: {}".format(has_ffmpeg))
 
     if has_ffmpeg: