Man page documents -ab switch improperly.

[Adam Buchbinder]

ffmpeg 0.cvs20070307-5ubuntu7.1's man page documents the -ab switch as taking a value in kbits/s; new versions take bits/s. So "-ab 64" in old versions should read "-ab 64k" or "-ab 64000" in new ones.

[Guillaume Martres (smarter)]

Recent versions of ffmpeg except the -ab argument to be in bytes, not kilobytes, so you should use "-ab 64000" and should probably report a bug to the any2dvd developers.

[Adam Buchbinder (adam-buchbinder)]

any2dvd is unmaintained; I was patching it to work on my system. The man page for ffmpeg is incorrect; I'll attach a patch against ffmpeg_0.cvs20070307-5ubuntu7.1 momentarily, and change the bug description.

[Adam Buchbinder (adam-buchbinder)]

Note that this patch (or something very much like it) was applied to ffmpeg's SVN trunk a bit later than the snapshot time on 20070307; it must have just missed the cutoff.

http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk/doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi?r1=8141&r2=8288

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

ah great, so we'll have this in intrepid. thanks for reporting back!

[Adam Buchbinder (adam-buchbinder)]

I think I did the nominate-for-release bit improperly, but what I was trying to get at was that ffmpeg in Intrepid is based on a later SVN snapshot (20080206), so the manpage is already correct there. Only the version in Hardy (and Gutsy, I suppose) is affected, since those are based off the 20070307 snapshot. The nominations I made should be marked as fix-released for Intrepid, and confirmed (or whatever) for Hardy (and Gutsy, if this is worth an update there).