[PATCH] Output AAC as M4A for iTunes with metadata tags

[dinkypumpkin]

On 27 Mar 2011, at 17:48, richard wrote:

> Shevek wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Which version of ffmpeg are you using?
> 
> I'm using the same version as bat guano on Ubuntu Hardy 8.04:-
> 
> FFmpeg version UNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
> built on Mar 17 2011 21:35:57 with gcc 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu4)
[snip]
> It says unknown version (don't know why - I'm no coder), but it was
> complied 2011-03-17 using latest release following this HowTo:-
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?s=b0a85dbb2d81702a74f3346f92c994f7&p=4907079&postcount=1
> 
> For Ubuntu Hardy 8.04:-
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6963607&postcount=360

FWIW, you can go to the git repo where you cloned ffmpeg and run:

git describe --tags --match N  

which gives something like:  N-28671-g3ea031b

To get just the hash for the latest commit (last 7 chars in previous output):

git describe --always  

which gives: 3ea031b

Version stamp generation may fail sometimes, depending on how ffmpeg is built.