Code was broken due to various software changes (gmsh, python3, numpy/scipy). Various fixes just to enable the code to run again.
I checked it also with another evirmonment (ubuntu). After compilation/installation of ffmpeg and minidlna I made a full media rescan (minidlna -R) to force a rescan. The result is unfortunately the same behaviur. The ffmpeg 2.8.x (e.g 2.8.9) version works with video support and ffmpeg 3.4.x (e.g. 3.4.1) does not work. I compiled the ffmpeg variants with h264 support (see details below). ffmpeg version 2.8.9 Copyright (c) 2000-2016 the FFmpeg developers built with gcc 5.4.0 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.5)...
No video support with certain ffmpeg versions