Hi all,

After experimenting with version 6.0 of ffmpeg there were a few issues i was not totally happy with, so i decided to downgrade back to the 2008 build of ffmpeg.

However now whenever i encode a libxvid/libmp3lame movie with ffmpeg (using the exact same settings I have always used), the output created .avi file is reported by KDE as having:
This is truly odd (and quite annoying) as the .avi movie plays correctly with sound on both Smplayer and Kaffeine, so i don't think it is a codec issue, but it just does not display the correct audio codec tag anymore.

Does anyone know how the metabar properties are controlled in KDE?, or if there is a config that I can adjust to make the new created output .avi's report the Audio Codec correctly as 'mp3'? (like it used to).

Also, does anyone know if ffmpeg 6.0 may have left some files behind on my system that is causing this sudden odd behaviour?

Thanks very much for any assistance.

Kind Regards


p.s. I'm on Slackware 12.2

I get my ffmpeg from svn, and never had any problems. Also what version of lame do you have ?

Hi H_TeXMeX_H, thanks for your reply.

Im using lame version 3.98.2.

Do you think this audio codec (non)-tagging issue is caused by lame?

I can't be sure what it is caused by, you'll have to try different things. I always use lame 3.97 because I've gotten some buffer issues with later versions, maybe they have fixed it, but I don't know.

Hi H_TeXMeX_H, Thanks for your suggestion.

I have downgraded lame to version 3.97 (created from slackbuild script), but after creating an avi, the Audio Codec: none (non-tagging) issue is still there

Would you have any other suggestions of things I can try to resolve this issue?

Cheers

Maybe try running one of those file through mencoder, maybe it will fix it.