Audio recorded with MediaRecorder on Chrome missing duration - google-chrome

Question

I am recording audio (oga/vorbis) files with MediaRecorder. When I record these file through Chrome I get problems: I cannot edit the files on ffmpeg and when I try to play them on Firefox it says they are corrupt (they do play fine on Chrome though).
Looking at their metadata on ffmpeg I get this:
Input #0, matroska,webm, from '91.oga':
Metadata:
encoder : Chrome
Duration: N/A, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
Stream #0:0(eng): Audio: opus, 48000 Hz, mono, fltp (default)
[STREAM]
index=0
codec_name=opus
codec_long_name=Opus (Opus Interactive Audio Codec)
profile=unknown
codec_type=audio
codec_time_base=1/48000
codec_tag_string=[0][0][0][0]
codec_tag=0x0000
sample_fmt=fltp
sample_rate=48000
channels=1
channel_layout=mono
bits_per_sample=0
id=N/A
r_frame_rate=0/0
avg_frame_rate=0/0
time_base=1/1000
start_pts=0
start_time=0.000000
duration_ts=N/A
duration=N/A
bit_rate=N/A
max_bit_rate=N/A
bits_per_raw_sample=N/A
nb_frames=N/A
nb_read_frames=N/A
nb_read_packets=N/A
DISPOSITION:default=1
DISPOSITION:dub=0
DISPOSITION:original=0
DISPOSITION:comment=0
DISPOSITION:lyrics=0
DISPOSITION:karaoke=0
DISPOSITION:forced=0
DISPOSITION:hearing_impaired=0
DISPOSITION:visual_impaired=0
DISPOSITION:clean_effects=0
DISPOSITION:attached_pic=0
TAG:language=eng
[/STREAM]
[FORMAT]
filename=91.oga
nb_streams=1
nb_programs=0
format_name=matroska,webm
format_long_name=Matroska / WebM
start_time=0.000000
duration=N/A
size=7195
bit_rate=N/A
probe_score=100
TAG:encoder=Chrome
As you can see there are problems with the duration. I have looked at posts like this:
How can I add predefined length to audio recorded from MediaRecorder in Chrome?
But even trying that, I got errors when trying to chop and merge files.For example when running:
ffmpeg -f concat -i 89_inputs.txt -c copy final.oga
I get a lot of this:
[oga # 00000000006789c0] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:0; previous: 57612, current: 1980; changing to 57613. This may result in incorrect timestamps in the output file.
[oga # 00000000006789c0] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:0; previous: 57613, current: 2041; changing to 57614. This may result in incorrect timestamps in the output file.
DTS -442721849179034176, next:42521 st:0 invalid dropping
PTS -442721849179034176, next:42521 invalid dropping st:0
[oga # 00000000006789c0] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:0; previous: 57614, current: 2041; changing to 57615. This may result in incorrect timestamps in the output file.
[oga # 00000000006789c0] Timestamps are unset in a packet for stream 0. This is deprecated and will stop working in the future. Fix your code to set the timestamps properly
DTS -442721849179031296, next:42521 st:0 invalid dropping
PTS -442721849179031296, next:42521 invalid dropping st:0
Does anyone know what we need to do to audio files recorded from Chrome for them to be useful? Or is there a problem with my setup?
Recorder js:
if (navigator.getUserMedia) {
console.log('getUserMedia supported.');
var constraints = { audio: true };
var chunks = [];
var onSuccess = function(stream) {
var mediaRecorder = new MediaRecorder(stream);
record.onclick = function() {
mediaRecorder.start();
console.log(mediaRecorder.state);
console.log("recorder started");
record.style.background = "red";
stop.disabled = false;
record.disabled = true;
var aud = document.getElementById("audioClip");
start = aud.currentTime;
}
stop.onclick = function() {
console.log(mediaRecorder.state);
console.log("Recording request sent.");
mediaRecorder.stop();
}
mediaRecorder.onstop = function(e) {
console.log("data available after MediaRecorder.stop() called.");
var audio = document.createElement('audio');
audio.setAttribute('controls', '');
audio.setAttribute('id', 'audioClip');
audio.controls = true;
var blob = new Blob(chunks, { 'type' : 'audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"' });
chunks = [];
var audioURL = window.URL.createObjectURL(blob);
audio.src = audioURL;
sendRecToPost(blob); // this just send the audio blob to the server by post
console.log("recorder stopped");
}

Answer 1

I found at the ffmpeg documentation that we can set metadata at the conversion using this option:
//-metadata[:metadata_specifier] key=value (output,per-metadata)
//Set a metadata key/value pair.
ffmpeg -i in.avi -metadata title="my title" out.flv
You can also test if the duration conversion limit works on your case:
//-t duration (input/output)
//When used as an input option (before -i), limit the duration of data read from the input file.
//When used as an output option (before an output url), stop writing the output after its duration reaches duration.