diff --git a/src/zm_ffmpeg.cpp b/src/zm_ffmpeg.cpp
index 9af56c971..fdf35e862 100644
--- a/src/zm_ffmpeg.cpp
+++ b/src/zm_ffmpeg.cpp
@@ -363,15 +363,9 @@ void zm_dump_stream_format(AVFormatContext *ic, int i, int index, int is_output)
     int flags = (is_output ? ic->oformat->flags : ic->iformat->flags);
     AVStream *st = ic->streams[i];
     AVDictionaryEntry *lang = av_dict_get(st->metadata, "language", NULL, 0);
-    unsigned char *separator = ic->dump_separator;
-    char **codec_separator = (char **)av_opt_ptr(st->codec->av_class, st->codec, "dump_separator");
-    int use_format_separator = !*codec_separator;
+	char separator = '\n';
 
-    if (use_format_separator)
-        *codec_separator = av_strdup((const char *)separator);
     avcodec_string(buf, sizeof(buf), st->codec, is_output);
-    if (use_format_separator)
-        av_freep(codec_separator);
     Debug(3, "    Stream #%d:%d", index, i);
 
     /* the pid is an important information, so we display it */