diff --git a/avconv.c b/avconv.c
index 707a5d7154..a381fdb20a 100644
--- a/avconv.c
+++ b/avconv.c
@@ -2794,7 +2794,6 @@ static void add_input_streams(OptionsContext *o, AVFormatContext *ic)
         AVStream *st = ic->streams[i];
         AVCodecContext *dec = st->codec;
         InputStream *ist;
-        double scale = 1.0;
 
         input_streams = grow_array(input_streams, sizeof(*input_streams), &nb_input_streams, nb_input_streams + 1);
         ist = &input_streams[nb_input_streams - 1];
@@ -2803,8 +2802,8 @@ static void add_input_streams(OptionsContext *o, AVFormatContext *ic)
         ist->discard = 1;
         ist->opts = filter_codec_opts(codec_opts, ist->st->codec->codec_id, ic, st);
 
-        MATCH_PER_STREAM_OPT(ts_scale, dbl, scale, ic, st);
-        ist->ts_scale = scale;
+        ist->ts_scale = 1.0;
+        MATCH_PER_STREAM_OPT(ts_scale, dbl, ist->ts_scale, ic, st);
 
         ist->dec = choose_decoder(o, ic, st);
 
@@ -3112,7 +3111,6 @@ static OutputStream *new_output_stream(OptionsContext *o, AVFormatContext *oc, e
     OutputStream *ost;
     AVStream *st = avformat_new_stream(oc, NULL);
     int idx      = oc->nb_streams - 1, ret = 0;
-    int64_t max_frames = INT64_MAX;
     char *bsf = NULL, *next, *codec_tag = NULL;
     AVBitStreamFilterContext *bsfc, *bsfc_prev = NULL;
     double qscale = -1;
@@ -3167,8 +3165,8 @@ static OutputStream *new_output_stream(OptionsContext *o, AVFormatContext *oc, e
         exit_program(1);
     }
 
-    MATCH_PER_STREAM_OPT(max_frames, i64, max_frames, oc, st);
-    ost->max_frames = max_frames;
+    ost->max_frames = INT64_MAX;
+    MATCH_PER_STREAM_OPT(max_frames, i64, ost->max_frames, oc, st);
 
     MATCH_PER_STREAM_OPT(bitstream_filters, str, bsf, oc, st);
     while (bsf) {
@@ -3240,7 +3238,7 @@ static OutputStream *new_video_stream(OptionsContext *o, AVFormatContext *oc)
         char *forced_key_frames = NULL, *frame_rate = NULL, *frame_size = NULL;
         char *frame_aspect_ratio = NULL, *frame_pix_fmt = NULL;
         char *intra_matrix = NULL, *inter_matrix = NULL, *filters = NULL;
-        int i, force_fps = 0, top_field_first = -1;
+        int i;
 
         MATCH_PER_STREAM_OPT(frame_rates, str, frame_rate, oc, st);
         if (frame_rate && av_parse_video_rate(&ost->frame_rate, frame_rate) < 0) {
@@ -3324,11 +3322,10 @@ static OutputStream *new_video_stream(OptionsContext *o, AVFormatContext *oc)
         if (forced_key_frames)
             parse_forced_key_frames(forced_key_frames, ost, video_enc);
 
-        MATCH_PER_STREAM_OPT(force_fps, i, force_fps, oc, st);
-        ost->force_fps = force_fps;
+        MATCH_PER_STREAM_OPT(force_fps, i, ost->force_fps, oc, st);
 
-        MATCH_PER_STREAM_OPT(top_field_first, i, top_field_first, oc, st);
-        ost->top_field_first = top_field_first;
+        ost->top_field_first = -1;
+        MATCH_PER_STREAM_OPT(top_field_first, i, ost->top_field_first, oc, st);
 
         MATCH_PER_STREAM_OPT(copy_initial_nonkeyframes, i, ost->copy_initial_nonkeyframes, oc ,st);