From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1R0uTt-00078P-4n for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 12:10:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5EE6C21C10B; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:10:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE79521C085 for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:09:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 448511B400B for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:09:07 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -4.965 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.965 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=1.634, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-4] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id PbTY1CyY5ihW for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:09:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CF221B4002 for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:09:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R0uSU-0001mT-Nv for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:08:54 +0200 Received: from athedsl-391488.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.81.62]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:08:54 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-391488.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:08:54 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: libav/ffmpeg's bitrate options have no effect in Gentoo Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:09:13 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <20110906114857.GA7273@CasperVector> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-391488.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110822 Thunderbird/6.0 In-Reply-To: <20110906114857.GA7273@CasperVector> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 307d41f4c960c5eb77591fcf5c9672ad On 09/06/2011 02:48 PM, Casper Ti. Vector wrote: > Recently I found that the `-b' and `-ab' options used for setting the > output bitrate in ffmpeg and libav have no effect on my Gentoo machine. > With Ubuntu (and the Medibuntu repository enabled), this does not > happen. > > For example, for any `' I use in > % ffmpeg -ab -i test.ape test.mp3 > I get only `test.mp3' in 64kbps bitrate (as default setting). It's > similar as for other audio/video formats and/or the `-b' option. > > My Gentoo system is updated daily with global ~amd64 keyword in use. I > recently switched from ffmpeg to libav and they are both affected by > this issue. > > Is anybody facing the same issue? Has anyone got any idea about the > possible causes and/or solutions? Please tell me if more information is > needed, thanks. When running ffmpeg, it says: "This program is not developed anymore and is only provided for compatibility. Use avconv instead (see Changelog for the list of incompatible changes)." So try with avconv instead. But for MP3, you should probably be using LAME with a VBR quality setting instead.