sox @14.4.0 requesting +ffmpeg variant

[dtakeda@…]

Requesting a +ffmpeg variant which builds sox with the ffmpeg library.

​http://sox.sourceforge.net/Docs/Features lists the filetypes that would be supported if compiled with ffmpeg.

Currently getting sox to work with ffmpeg requires compiling from source.

[dtakeda@…]

Cc Me!

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

The Milestone field is not used for port tickets. There is no need to Cc yourself, but you should Cc the maintainer of the port so that he is informed about and can begin addressing your ticket.

[janstary (Jan Starý)]

Replying to dtakeda@…:

The ffmpeg "support" in sox is very broken, so it is disabled in the port on purpose. In the new 14.4.1 release (which I will upload later today), ffmpeg has finally been deprecated. So no, sorry; there will not be a ffmpeg variant.

Out of curiosity though, what exactly are you doing with ffmpeg in sox, and how is that working for you?

[dtakeda@…]

compiling with ffmpeg makes sox support more file types (m4a for one). I was using sox to downsample some music to save some space. Currently using ffmpeg straight up to do that.

[janstary (Jan Starý)]

Yes, I was also trying to use that, but none of the extra filetypes worked for me, except reading m4a (writing anything crashed sox immediately). Can you please be specific (the sox -V command line)?

You are deffinitely better off doing that in ffmpeg itself. Even the SoX developers recommend that :-)

[dtakeda@…]

I think it was something like

sox -i input.m4a -C 192 output.mp3

I should clarify I was lowering the bitrate and converting it into an mp3.