Comment 3 for bug 1004174

On Fr, Mai 25, 2012 at 17:42:37 (CEST), thom wrote:

>>What FFmpeg documentation are you referring to?
>
> The official ffmpeg documentation:
> http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html#Advanced-options

I see.

well that documentation does not apply to the ubuntu libav package.

>> bugfix:
>>> merge audiomapping back into the code or add the funcion "asplit" which
>>> should do the opposite of "amerge"
>
>> please see the avconv documentation for this.
>
> I did extensively and avconv has none such a functionality at the
> moment.

Could you please file a bug in the libav upstream bugtracker then,
please?

http://bugzilla.libav.org

> ffmpeg does, so actually avconv should stop pretending to be ffmpeg.

It doesn't pretend that. The included ffmpeg binary is simply kept for
compatibility reasons with *programs* *in* *ubuntu*, and does not aim to
replicate newly introduced behavior from http://ffmpeg.org

> I assume that the biggest problem is providing both ffmpeg and avconv
> In that case: Libav shouldn't change the current situation but drop
> the name "ffmpeg" because it is a bit misleading and could give some
> serious unintended consequences when adding the real ffmpeg via a PPA
> to a packetmanager

This is what's going to happen in future version of ubuntu.

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