Amarok and libav’s ffmpeg

Matěj Laitl matej at laitl.cz
Fri Apr 19 16:10:47 UTC 2013


On 19. 4. 2013 Tobias Schula wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I’m using Amarok 2.7 on Kubuntu and it unfortunately uses libav instead of
> ffmpeg so the included ffmpeg utility behaves somewhat different from the
> official one. AFAIK Amarok uses ffmpeg to transcode files.

Yes, or the ffmpeg wrapper aroung libav.

> So when I
> transcode flacs to mp3 the VBR header gets written incorrectly and the
> resulting files don’t display their right duration. Am I hitting the
> following bug or is it a different one?
> 
> >  https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300551

A different one. I think you simply hit a bug in libav which isn't connected to 
ffmpeg/libav difference at all.

	Matěj



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