[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Lost VBR header

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:19:32PM +0200, Peter Belkner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> FFmpeg is known for eating up the VBR header of MP3 files in case of  
> stream copy as e.g.
>
>    ffmpeg -i a.mp3 -acodec copy -y b.mp3
>
> The patch fixes this provided the "-acodec" switch is given in front of  
> the "-i" switch:
>
>    ffmpeg -acode copy -i a.mp3 -y b.mp3
>
> Apart from this subtility the patch should improve "libavformat.a" in  
> order that third party client code may copy MP3s without losing the VBR  
> header (as. e.g. my R128GAIN, see below).
>
> I really would apreciate if you could apply the patch or provide an  
> equivalent solution.

If the muxer simply generates a vbr header which should be quite
trivial for it to do (just counting packets and their sizes for
duration and buikding a simple index too)

then
not only would it be unneeded to preserve on stream copy but it would
be created even if the source file did not had one to begin with

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