[gentoo-user] libav/ffmpeg's bitrate options have no effect in Gentoo

2011-09-06 Thread Casper Ti. Vector
Recently I found that the `-b' and `-ab' options used for setting the output bitrate in ffmpeg and libav have no effect on my Gentoo machine. With Ubuntu (and the Medibuntu repository enabled), this does not happen. For example, for any `bitrate' I use in % ffmpeg -ab bitrate -i test.ape

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libav/ffmpeg's bitrate options have no effect in Gentoo

2011-09-06 Thread Casper Ti. Vector
Some additional information: the `-ab' and `-b' options seems to be broken on my machine, since they accepts any argument, even those which will cause error in the case of Ubuntu, for example `@@' or so. Nevertheless, the option parsing is not completely broken, because an unknown option ffmpeg

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libav/ffmpeg's bitrate options have no effect in Gentoo

2011-09-06 Thread Casper Ti. Vector
But VBR seems to be disabled with the command line I used... And, whether VBR is enabled, the wrong parsing of the argument of bitrate options indicate that some error must exist somewhere. On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 10:42:06AM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: 'lame' is an MP3 encoder. VBR is 'variable

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libav/ffmpeg's bitrate options have no effect in Gentoo

2011-09-06 Thread Casper Ti. Vector
OK, but I was actually converting an FLV file, and didn't want to use both programs, especially when ffmpeg already has support for libmp3lame. Anyway, there must be some problem in ffmpeg/libav (probably) or something else (less probable than the former) on my computer. On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at

[gentoo-user] dev-lang/R: lots of Error in strsplit in using

2011-09-08 Thread Casper Ti. Vector
When using R on my Gentoo machine, whether in interactive or in batch mode, calling `help()' causes the following error: Error in strsplit(txt, \n, fixed = TRUE) : 'split' string 1 is invalid UTF-8 When in interactive mode, typing any function with an opening bracket (eg. `help(') and

[gentoo-user] net-misc/wget-1.13.3-r2: unexpected behaviour with some options

2011-09-08 Thread Casper Ti. Vector
With net-misc/wget-1.13.3-r2, when executing `wget --version', I get GNU Wget 1.13.3 built on linux-gnu.\n\n+digest (intepret as C string, you migh need to note that there is no newline in the end of the output); when executing `wget --help', I get GNU Wget 1.13.3, a non-interactive