Bug 168419

Summary:	media-plugins/mytharchive bitrate broken w/ >=ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20061016
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Nick Osborne <nicknbecka>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) <cardoe>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	minor	CC:	shane, stuart
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3928276.html
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Description Nick Osborne 2007-02-26 06:53:50 UTC

ffmpeg changes it's interpretation of '-b' on the command line from kilobytes to bits (see: http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk/ffmpeg.c?revision=6288&view=markup), which causes mytharchive to create very low bitrate files when using ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20061016 and ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070129. 

Mytharchive has been patched in svn to adjust, but it doesn't look like it's been backported to fixes (see: http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/11396).

Reproducible: Didn't try

Comment 1 Nick Osborne 2007-02-26 06:59:22 UTC

Forgot to mention that myth's patch in changeset 11396 linked above is reported to work with ffmpeg before and after the change.

Comment 2 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-03-01 06:02:59 UTC

Please submit a patch upstream to get this merged into release-0-20-fixes and provide a link here.

Or see maybe Stuart will want to commit it.

Comment 3 Nick Osborne 2007-03-12 17:02:23 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> Please submit a patch upstream to get this merged into release-0-20-fixes and
> provide a link here.
> 
> Or see maybe Stuart will want to commit it.
> 

Doug, I've been on vacation since the first and unexpectedly haven't been able to check my messages. Sorry for the delay.

I see that you submitted a request for me upstream, and that I missed a merge to fixes that was already there. My sincere apologies for my mistake- I'll test with the latest in portage this evening to confirm if this is still an issue.