[FFmpeg-devel] Live encoding into mxf...

Eng. Tweellt tweellt at gmail.com
Fri Feb 27 11:05:32 CET 2015


2015-02-26 23:46 GMT+00:00 Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at>:

> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 05:26:36PM +0000, Eng. Tweellt wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I'm trying to encode video and audio directly from a capture board, 1
> video
> > stream and 8 single channel audio streams into a MXF file encoding it in
> > Mpeg-2.
> >
> > Everything is working fine except when I call av_write_trailer() at the
> end
> > (and before freeing CodecContext as stated in the documentation).
> >
> > After using av_write_trailer, I end up with the whole video looking like
> > this http://i.imgur.com/M6HkcpR.jpg . It seems like the decoder is
> > misplacing the b-frames in the wrong position, but  If i don't call this
> > function I can play the media file, with the image as it should be, in
> VLC
> > but the timestamp is completely wrong.
> > Looking at mediainfo I can see that my file doesn't  have the file
> duration
> > (which later made sense when I looked inside the code.)
> >
> > After a few hours with the file mxfenc.c  found  that if I comment the
> next
> > part inside the function mxf_write_footer(), the write trailer "kinda"
> > works,
> >
> > (...)
> > if (mxf->edit_unit_byte_count && s->oformat != &ff_mxf_opatom_muxer) { //
> > no need to repeat index
> >         if ((err = mxf_write_partition(s, 0, 0, footer_partition_key,
> 0)) <
> > 0)
> >             return err;
> >     } /*else {
> >         if ((err = mxf_write_partition(s, 0, 2, footer_partition_key,
> 0)) <
> > 0)
> >             return err;
> >         mxf_write_klv_fill(s);
> >         mxf_write_index_table_segment(s);
> >     }*/
> > (...)
> >
> > The "kinda" works part, its because I can play the file correctly in VLC
> > with the correct timestamps, and if I open it with Mediainfo everything
> > looks good, but If I try to open it with Sorenson Squeeze (for example),
> I
> > get a warning saying  "Squeeze does not support playing this file".
> > I carefully followed the documentation, samples, examples and I'm still
> > stuck :S.
> > I am using the ffmpeg 2.5.1 version and I also added a few changes that I
> > saw in the master, and nothing changed.
> >
> > Additional info:
> >
> > Target Output file format is a 1080i59.94, XDCam 30Mbit MXF op1a.
> >
> > Regarding the 8 audio streams the codec options have the one provided by
> > avcodec_get_context_defaults3 plus this changes:
> >
> > audio_codec_context->channels=1;
> > audio_codec_context->sample_rate = 48000;
> > audio_codec_context->bit_rate = 768000;
> > audio_codec_context->sample_fmt =AV_SAMPLE_FMT_S16;
> > audio_codec_context->flags= CODEC_FLAG_GLOBAL_HEADER;
> > audio_codec_context->time_base->num = 48000;
> >
> >
> > Regarding video  I also do avcodec_get_context_defaults3 plus this:
> >
> > video_codec_context-> pix_fmt= AV_PIX_FMT_YUV422P;
> > video_codec_context->height = 1080;
> > video_codec_context->time_base->den = 30000;
> > video_codec_context->time_base->num = 1001;
> > video_codec_context->field_order= AVFieldOrder.AV_FIELD_TB;
> > video_codec_context->width = 1920;
> > video_codec_context->codec_id= AV_CODEC_ID_MPEG2VIDEO;
> > video_codec_context->has_b_frames= 1;
> > video_codec_context->max_b_frames = 2;
> > video_codec_context->gop_size= 12;
> > video_codec_context->global_quality= FF_QP2LAMBDA * 1;
> > video_codec_context->rc_initial_buffer_occupancy= 10695476;
> > video_codec_context->scenechange_threshold = 1000000000;
> > video_codec_context->color_primaries= AVCOL_PRI_BT709;
> > video_codec_context->color_trc= AVCOL_TRC_BT709;
> > video_codec_context->qmin= 1;
> > video_codec_context->flags |= CODEC_FLAG_GLOBAL_HEADER |
> > CODEC_FLAG_INTERLACED_DCT | CODEC_FLAG_INTERLACED_ME;
> > video_codec_context->bit_rate =   30000000;
> > video_codec_context->rc_min_rate= 30000000;
> > video_codec_context->rc_max_rate= 30000000;
> > video_codec_context->rc_buffer_size= 10695476;
> >
> >
> > I also had specified me_method and me_range, but nothing changed.
> >
> > Any idea what might be the problem?
>
> can the problem be reproduced with command line FFmpeg ?
>
> [...]
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>


Hi Michael,

I can't really tell. Encoding from another file seams to work fine but
encoding from a live source it does not.

Now there are some differences, for instance when getting frames from a
live source I have to deal with PTS values, duration and so on.

Is there a way to encode directly from a live source using command line?

Cheers


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