diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 373b6b79548..e9de2b833cf 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ Torchvision currently supports the following video backends:
   conflicting version of ffmpeg installed. Currently, this is only supported on Linux.
 
 ```
-conda install -c conda-forge ffmpeg
+conda install -c conda-forge 'ffmpeg<4.3'
 python setup.py install
 ```