Maybe this will be the one that works.

.travis.yml

@@ -4,10 +4,7 @@ python:
   - "3.3"
 before_install:
   - sudo apt-get update -qq
-  - sudo apt-get install -y ffmpeg python-gtk2
-install:
-  - pip install behave "colormath>=2.1.0" coverage coveralls mock multipledispatch networkx "numpy>=1.7"
-before_script:
+  - sudo apt-get install -y python-gtk2 wget
   - env | sort
   - cd $VIRTUAL_ENV
   - mkdir -p lib/python2.7/dist-packages/
@@ -17,6 +14,13 @@ before_script:
   - ln -s /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pygtk.pth lib/python2.7/dist-packages/
   - ln -s /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cairo lib/python2.7/dist-packages/
   - cd $TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR
+  - wget http://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/releases/ffmpeg-release-64bit-static.tar.xz
+  - mkdir ffmpeg
+  - tar xf ffmpeg-release-64bit-static.tar.xz --strip-components 1 -C ffmpeg
+  - export PATH=$TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR/ffmpeg:$PATH
+
+install:
+  - pip install behave "colormath>=2.1.0" coverage coveralls mock multipledispatch networkx "numpy>=1.7"
 script:
   - coverage run --source toyplot --omit toyplot/testing.py -m nose
   - coverage run --append --source toyplot --omit toyplot/testing.py -m behave