[FFmpeg-trac] #8(avformat:open): Muxing of eac3 with spectral extension into matroska is unsupported (was: conversion of french HD tv (mpeg2ts) with eac3 audio to matroska fails)

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#8: Muxing of eac3 with spectral extension into matroska is unsupported
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Reporter:  EricV        |       Owner:  michael
    Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  open
Priority:  normal       |   Component:  avformat
 Version:  git          |  Resolution:
Keywords:               |  Blocked By:
Blocking:               |  Reproduced:  1
Analyzed:  0            |
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Changes (by cehoyos):

 * status:  new => open
 * type:  defect => enhancement
 * component:  FFmpeg => avformat
 * reproduced:  0 => 1


Comment:

 Muxing eac3 with "Spectral Extension Attenuation" into mkv is not
 supported, a possible sample is incoming/France2HD-EAC3-SPX.ts

 {{{
 ffmpeg -i issues/issue1256/France2HD-EAC3-SPX.ts -map 0.2 -acodec copy -vn
 -sn out.mkv
 FFmpeg version git-N-28415-g3efbbbb, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg
 developers
   built on Mar 12 2011 01:38:48 with gcc 4.4.5
   configuration: --cc=/usr/local/gcc-4.4.5/bin/gcc --enable-gpl --enable-
 libopenjpeg
   libavutil    50. 39. 0 / 50. 39. 0
   libavcodec   52.114. 0 / 52.114. 0
   libavformat  52.103. 0 / 52.103. 0
   libavdevice  52.  3. 0 / 52.  3. 0
   libavfilter   1. 76. 0 /  1. 76. 0
   libswscale    0. 12. 0 /  0. 12. 0
 [h264 @ 0x1277400] mmco: unref short failure
 [mpegts @ 0x1271650] max_analyze_duration reached
 Input #0, mpegts, from 'issues/issue1256/France2HD-EAC3-SPX.ts':
   Duration: 00:00:08.93, start: 11549.805367, bitrate: 6996 kb/s
   Program 1
     Stream #0.0[0xdc]: Video: h264 (Main), yuv420p, 1440x1080 [PAR 4:3 DAR
 16:9], 25 fps, 25 tbr, 90k tbn, 50 tbc
     Stream #0.1[0xe7](qaa): Audio: eac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1, s16, 256 kb/s
     Stream #0.2[0xe6](fra): Audio: eac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 128 kb/s
     Stream #0.3[0xf0](fra): Subtitle: dvbsub (hearing impaired)
 [matroska @ 0x1277cd0] Tag [6][0][0][0]/0x00000006 incompatible with
 output codec id '86059'
 Output #0, matroska, to 'out.mkv':
     Stream #0.0(fra): Audio: [6][0][0][0] / 0x0006, 48000 Hz, stereo, 128
 kb/s
 Stream mapping:
   Stream #0.2 -> #0.0
 Could not write header for output file #0 (incorrect codec parameters ?)
 }}}

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