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ffmpeg-debian package

ffmpeg: -title switch has been replaced

Bug #359979 reported by Ben M.
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #501729: ffmpeg: unrecognized option '-album'. Edit Remove
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ffmpeg-debian (Ubuntu)
Triaged
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: ffmpeg

$ apt-cache show ffmpeg
Package: ffmpeg
Priority: optional
Architecture: amd64
Version: 3:0.svn20090303-1ubuntu6
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Executing this:
$ ffmpeg -i file.avi -acodec copy -vcodec copy -title "MyTitle" out.avi

Will result in:
> ffmpeg: unrecognized option '-title'

This was possible in intrepid. Many scripts are broken now, since ffmpeg will not just ignore it, but stop.
Reference: http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/ffmpeg-in-jaunty:-title-nicht-bekannt-konvert/

Tags: packaging
Ben M. (bmhm)
summary: - tagging is not being activated
+ tagging is deactivated since jaunty
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Ben M. (bmhm) wrote : Re: tagging is deactivated since jaunty

Well, I just discovered that the man-page is outdated.
New syntax: -metatag title="string"

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Reinhard Tartler (siretart) wrote :

this has been changed this january upstream:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/79635

Yes, the documentation need to be updated. Patches against doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi are more than welcome!

summary: - tagging is deactivated since jaunty
+ ffmpeg: -title switch has been replaced
affects: ffmpeg (Ubuntu) → ffmpeg-debian (Ubuntu)
Changed in ffmpeg-debian (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
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Nighto (nighto-nighto) wrote :

ffmpeg: unrecognized option '-metatag'

Have it been changed again?

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Nighto (nighto-nighto) wrote :

I discovered it's metadata, not metatag:

http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-doc.html

Cheers

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