ffmpeg: unrecognized option '-album'
Bug #501729 reported by
jimav
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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FFmpeg |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
ffmpeg (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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ffmpeg (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: ffmpeg
ffmpeg -i input.wav -acodec alac -album MyAlbumTitle output.alac
says:
ffmpeg: unrecognized option '-album'
The -title, -auth, -album, -year and mayboth other such tag options which
are documented on the man page do not seem to work, at least when
using the alac audio encoder.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Dec 30 12:14:57 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: ffmpeg 4:0.5+svn200907
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: ffmpeg
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic x86_64
Changed in ffmpeg (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Invalid → Triaged |
tags: | added: patch |
tags: |
added: patch-needswork removed: patch |
Changed in ffmpeg: | |
status: | New → Fix Committed |
Changed in ffmpeg (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
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This is normal behavior and the options you are describing are outdated. FFmpeg uses the -metadata option. Example:
-metadata title="The Title" -metadata author="Foo" -metadata year="1999"
"ffmpeg -h" is generally more up to date than "man ffmpeg".