[FFmpeg-user] Encoding Warnings

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Am Mo., 29. Juni 2020 um 16:44 Uhr schrieb Jim <Ruler2112 at charter.net>:

> >> The two lines that are concerning to me are:
> >>
> >>       'Guessed Channel Layout for Input Stream #1.0 : stereo'
> >>
> >> Of course it's stereo - I jump dumped it to a 2-channel wave in the step 2!
> >> :)
> >>   I'm guessing that I can safely ignore this one
> >
> > Obviously.
> > (The wav standard does not require writing the channel layout for some
> > mono and stereo files and we don't do it to maintain compatibility with
> > ancient software that fails if the information is present.)
>
> Interesting that this warning is not present in the windows version of
> ffmpeg yet is on Linux.  Any idea why that would be?  Even more

You do realize that FFmpeg offers neither a "windows version" nor
a "Linux" version but only source code?

> interesting is your explanation... out of curiosity, what ancient
> software are you referring to?  (Not really important - just curious.)

I wanted to answer "I don't remember" but I just realized that the
Home Theatre System "Sony DAV-DZ340K" is probably among
them.

Carl Eugen