Am Sa., 2. Mai 2020 um 23:16 Uhr schrieb Rick Maschmann
<[email protected]>:
>
> I discovered and logged a bug with Windows File Explorer related to the 
> matroska files and the metadata fields "Data rate" (for video track) and "Bit 
> rate" (for audio track).  The matroska muxer generates a random number for 
> Track UID and when that number happens to be greater than the max value for 
> Int64, the related BPS matroska metadata field fails to appear in File 
> Explorer under Data rate or Bit rate.  The matroska muxer writes a UInt64 
> into the Track UID field, per the matroska spec.

I wonder if our new matroska maintainer would accept a patch
avoiding values >int64_max.

> I found that the ffmpeg -bitexact advanced option flag causes the muxer to 
> create sequential Track UID values instead of generating random numbers, 
> which avoids the File Explorer bug.  The FFmpeg documentation for -bitexact 
> doesn't say much about this flag (I only found out about it by tracing 
> matroska muxer source code).
>
> What are the consequences or negative side effects from using the -bitexact 
> flag?

That strictly speaking the output files are not compliant.
But for your use-case, this seems of little relevance.
In addition, future FFmpeg version will not be able to
work-around bugs in current FFmpeg if you use bitexact.

Carl Eugen
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