[FFmpeg-user] ffprobe for mp3:

[James Mead]

On 5 February 2016 at 08:59, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:
> It is triggered if the size of the attachment is slightly
> smaller than 1048576 bytes and if the beginning of the
> mp3 stream has similarities with aac (or another codec),
> the similarities can happen, if the attachment is small
> enough, more bytes can be checked (to rule aac etc. out).
>
> After the change, the case when the attachment is only
> slightly smaller than 1M is handled more similar to the
> case when the attachment is bigger (mp3 is assumed in
> this case iirc).
>
> All this is related to the issue that some users (like
> you) need / want precise detection, others want fast
> detection...
> (But for the given sample, the behaviour was definitely
> a bug.)

Many thanks for the explanation.