[FFmpeg-devel] FFMPEG fails to convert .mov - "Cannot allocate temp picture"

Reimar Döffinger Reimar.Doeffinger
Mon Dec 29 09:31:31 CET 2008


On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 09:27:36AM +0100, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 10:03:33PM +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> > Baptiste Coudurier <baptiste.coudurier <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > 
> > > >> http://the13thfloor.org/4friends/tigani-mide2.mov
> > > >>
> > > >> No matter what I try or the target format I choose, it always fails
> > > >> with the same error:
> > > >>
> > >  >> [...]
> > >  >>
> > > >> [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x177a110]stream 0, error opening file
> > //tigani-mide.
> > > >> mov: Invalid argument
> > > 
> > > Your file is a reference file pointing to external file, however an 
> > > error occurs when opening external file. You should check the path and 
> > > access to '//tigani-mide.mov'.
> > 
> > I'm not totally convinced that this is a complete analysis, but I rather think
> > ffmpeg is missing something when reading this file (at least sound, but maybe
> > also video).
> 
> Indeed, the video plays just fine with this (obviously wrong) patch:

Correction, only the first half (which MPlayer's demuxer does not play at all)
is fine.
Either way this sample is definitely worth becoming part of the samples
collection.




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