diff --git a/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/writeffmpeg.c b/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/writeffmpeg.c
index dee852ca33a..e521fda2a8b 100644
--- a/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/writeffmpeg.c
+++ b/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/writeffmpeg.c
@@ -960,9 +960,14 @@ static int start_ffmpeg_impl(FFMpegContext *context,
       break;
   }
 
-  /* Returns after this must 'goto fail;' */
+    /* Returns after this must 'goto fail;' */
 
+#  if LIBAVFORMAT_VERSION_MAJOR >= 59
   of->oformat = fmt;
+#  else
+  /* *DEPRECATED* 2022/08/01 For FFMPEG (<5.0), remove this else branch code and the ifdef above. */
+  of->oformat = (AVOutputFormat *)fmt;
+#  endif
 
   if (video_codec == AV_CODEC_ID_DVVIDEO) {
     if (rectx != 720) {