[FFmpeg-user] Loss of resolution when adding metadata to an ogv file

[Moritz Barsnick]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 22:44:58 +0200, James Darnley wrote:
> On 2015-10-23 22:29, Giordano Lipari wrote:
> > version 0.8.17-4:0.8.17-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

That is NOT ffmpeg, it is not supported on this list. Please use ffmpeg
from http://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html (or have someone tell you
which repository provides the proper version for your Ubunto, as I
don't know.

> > ffmpeg -i INPUT -c copy -metadata KEY=VALUE OUTPUT
> 
> ffmpeg is a tool for encoding and muxing not adding arbitrary metadata
> to arbitrary files.

If the target format supports that, it is quite okay to use ffmpeg for
that, though I agree if you mean there are probably(?) better tools if
you *only* want to change the metadata.

Moritz