[Vorbis] The Vorbis encoder could not set up a mode according to the requested quality or bitrate.

Jason Self jason.self at gmail.com
Thu Jul 23 20:38:25 PDT 2009


I built ffmpeg2theora from SVN, using libogg 1.1.4, libvorbis 1.2.3  
and Thusnelda from SVN. Running ffmpeg2theora --help reports that  
ffmpeg2theora accepts a range of -2 to 10 for the --audioquality  
option and a bitrate of 32 to 500 for the --audiobitrate option, but  
it doesn't appear to actually accept any of the low end numbers.

It appears that the lowest acceptable value for  --audioquality is -1  
and the lowest acceptable value for --audiobitrate is 45.

Anyone know what's up?


jason$ ffmpeg2theora --audioquality -2 /Users/jason/test.m4a
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '/Users/jason/test.m4a':
   Duration: 00:04:22.73, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 129 kb/s
     Stream #0.0(und): Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16
The Vorbis encoder could not set up a mode according to
the requested quality or bitrate.


mini:~ jason$ ffmpeg2theora --audiobitrate 32 /Users/jason/test.m4a
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '/Users/jason/test.m4a':
   Duration: 00:04:22.73, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 129 kb/s
     Stream #0.0(und): Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16
The Vorbis encoder could not set up a mode according to
the requested quality or bitrate.


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