Bug#570050: ffmpeg: cannot set output metadata

[Ian Zimmerman]

Package: ffmpeg
Version: 4:0.5+svn20090706-5
Severity: normal


 [33]matica:test$ ffmpeg  -i track01.cdda.wav  track01.cdda.wma
FFmpeg version SVN-r19352-4:0.5+svn20090706-5, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
  configuration: --disable-encoder=h263 --disable-encoder=h263p
  --disable-encoder=mpeg2video --disable-encoder=mpeg4
  --disable-encoder=msmpeg4v1 --disable-encoder=msmpeg4v2
  --disable-encoder=msmpeg4v3 --extra-version=4:0.5+svn20090706-5
  --prefix=/usr --enable-avfilter --enable-avfilter-lavf
  --enable-vdpau --enable-bzlib --enable-libdirac --enable-libgsm
  --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex
  --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads
  --enable-zlib --disable-stripping --disable-vhook --enable-gpl
  --enable-postproc --enable-swscale --enable-x11grab --enable-libfaad
  --enable-libdc1394 --enable-shared --disable-static
  libavutil     49.15. 0 / 49.15. 0
  libavcodec    52.20. 0 / 52.20. 0
  libavformat   52.31. 0 / 52.31. 0
  libavdevice   52. 1. 0 / 52. 1. 0
  libavfilter    0. 4. 0 /  0. 4. 0
  libswscale     0. 7. 1 /  0. 7. 1
  libpostproc   51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
  built on Jan 23 2010 03:34:13, gcc: 4.4.3 20100108 (prerelease)
Input #0, wav, from 'track01.cdda.wav':
  Duration: 00:03:53.81, bitrate: 1411 kb/s
    Stream #0.0: Audio: pcm_s16le, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16, 1411 kb/s
Output #0, asf, to 'track01.cdda.wma':
    Stream #0.0: Audio: mp2, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16, 64 kb/s
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Press [q] to stop encoding
size=    2000kB time=233.80 bitrate=  70.1kbits/s    
video:0kB audio:1827kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 9.519576%
 [34]matica:test$ ffmpeg  -i track01.cdda.wav -album foo track01.cdda.wma
FFmpeg version SVN-r19352-4:0.5+svn20090706-5, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
  configuration: --disable-encoder=h263 --disable-encoder=h263p
  --disable-encoder=mpeg2video --disable-encoder=mpeg4
  --disable-encoder=msmpeg4v1 --disable-encoder=msmpeg4v2
  --disable-encoder=msmpeg4v3 --extra-version=4:0.5+svn20090706-5
  --prefix=/usr --enable-avfilter --enable-avfilter-lavf
  --enable-vdpau --enable-bzlib --enable-libdirac --enable-libgsm
  --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex
  --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads
  --enable-zlib --disable-stripping --disable-vhook --enable-gpl
  --enable-postproc --enable-swscale --enable-x11grab --enable-libfaad
  --enable-libdc1394 --enable-shared --disable-static
  libavutil     49.15. 0 / 49.15. 0
  libavcodec    52.20. 0 / 52.20. 0
  libavformat   52.31. 0 / 52.31. 0
  libavdevice   52. 1. 0 / 52. 1. 0
  libavfilter    0. 4. 0 /  0. 4. 0
  libswscale     0. 7. 1 /  0. 7. 1
  libpostproc   51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
  built on Jan 23 2010 03:34:13, gcc: 4.4.3 20100108 (prerelease)
Input #0, wav, from 'track01.cdda.wav':
  Duration: 00:03:53.81, bitrate: 1411 kb/s
    Stream #0.0: Audio: pcm_s16le, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16, 1411 kb/s
ffmpeg: unrecognized option '-album'
 [35]matica:test$

I suspect this is some really trivial misunderstanding, however, the
manpage definitely implies this is possible.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32.8-core2-i (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages ffmpeg depends on:
ii  libavcodec52         4:0.5+svn20090706-5 ffmpeg codec library
ii  libavdevice52        4:0.5+svn20090706-5 ffmpeg device handling library
ii  libavfilter0         4:0.5+svn20090706-5 ffmpeg video filtering library
ii  libavformat52        4:0.5+svn20090706-5 ffmpeg file format library
ii  libavutil49          4:0.5+svn20090706-5 ffmpeg utility library
ii  libc6                2.10.2-2            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libpostproc51        4:0.5+svn20090706-5 ffmpeg video postprocessing librar
ii  libsdl1.2debian      1.2.13-5            Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libswscale0          4:0.5+svn20090706-5 ffmpeg video scaling library

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