Bug#773055: libav-tools: avconv -target pal-svcd fails with "Unable to parse option value "scan_offset""

[Andreas Weber]

Package: libav-tools
Version: 6:11-2
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

avconv -i in.mp4 -target pal-svcd out.mpg

fails with:
[mpeg2video @ 0x14b63c0] [Eval @ 0x7ffff3fcfd50] Undefined constant or missing
'(' in 'scan_offset'
[mpeg2video @ 0x14b63c0] Unable to parse option value "scan_offset"
[mpeg2video @ 0x14b63c0] Error setting option flags to value +scan_offset.
....
Error while opening encoder for output stream #0:0 - maybe incorrect parameters
such as bit_rate, rate, width or height

After fixing avconv_opt.c:

--- avconv_opt.c_orig   2014-12-13 20:34:41.795060988 +0100
+++ avconv_opt.c        2014-12-13 20:26:00.579042876 +0100
@@ -1825,7 +1825,7 @@
         opt_default(NULL, "maxrate", "2516000");
         opt_default(NULL, "minrate", "0"); // 1145000;
         opt_default(NULL, "bufsize", "1835008"); // 224*1024*8;
-        opt_default(NULL, "flags", "+scan_offset");
+        opt_default(NULL, "scan_offset", "1");


         opt_default(NULL, "b:a", "224000");

avconv works as expected. Is it possible that patch
https://patches.libav.org/patch/19539/ got lost?


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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libav-tools depends on:
ii  dpkg             1.17.21
ii  libavcodec56     6:11-2
ii  libavdevice55    6:11-2
ii  libavfilter5     6:11-2
ii  libavformat56    6:11-2
ii  libavresample2   6:11-2
ii  libavutil54      6:11-2
ii  libc6            2.19-13
ii  libsdl1.2debian  1.2.15-10+b1
ii  libswscale3      6:11-2
ii  libvdpau1        0.8-3
ii  libx11-6         2:1.6.2-3

libav-tools recommends no packages.

Versions of packages libav-tools suggests:
pn  frei0r-plugins  <none>

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