[FFmpeg-user] ffmpeg-2.4 creates grey screen, corrupted videos

S Andreason sandreas41 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 19 21:25:22 CEST 2014


Hi,

After upgrading mplayer to 2.4, I was unable to play h264 videos with 
the tag major_brand=qt made by several cameras.
I discovered that I could create a h264 file using ffmpeg-1.0.1 and x264 
(yesterday's snapshot), and recreate the mplayer problem. Since this 
version of ffmpeg is old (but very functional), I upgraded it today.

Unfortunately instead of fixing my problem, this made it worse. Now I 
can't create _any_ videos that work correctly, even down to the mjpeg 
codec. They are all grey with blocks drawn down from the top.
Screenshot: 
http://seahorseCorral.org/videos/tests/20140128_pond-W_rec10990-f1.jpg

Exact command:
ffmpeg-2.4 -v 9 -loglevel 99 -i 20140128_pond-W_rec10990.mov -c:v h264 
-s 640x360 -c:a copy 20140128_pond-W_rec10990-640x360.2x264.avi > 
ffmpeg-2.4-rec10990.x264.log 2>&1

http://seahorseCorral.org/videos/tests/20140128_pond-W_rec10990.mov
http://seahorseCorral.org/videos/tests/20140128_pond-W_rec10990-640x360.2x264.avi
http://seahorseCorral.org/videos/tests/ffmpeg-2.4-rec10990.x264.log

Regression test: Exact command:
ffmpeg-1.0.1 -v 9 -loglevel 99 -i 20140128_pond-W_rec10990.mov -c:v h264 
-s 640x360 -c:a copy 20140128_pond-W_rec10990-640x360.1x264.avi > 
ffmpeg-1.0-rec10990.x264.log 2>&1

http://seahorseCorral.org/videos/tests/20140128_pond-W_rec10990-640x360.1x264.avi
http://seahorseCorral.org/videos/tests/ffmpeg-1.0-rec10990.x264.log

Results:
anything made with ffmpeg-2.4 is grey and corrupted with errors, whereas 
the ffmpeg-1.0 videos are good.
Playing any file with ffplay-2.4 is grey and corrupted, even older 
videos that are fine, now play as bad.

Playing the above files in an older mplayer or ffplay work fine with 
older videos and the original video, but not the one made by ffmpeg-2.4, 
or the ones made with ffmpeg-1.0 and x264.
Also confirmed when loading 20140128_pond-W_rec10990-640x360.2mjpeg.avi 
into avidemux.

Looking at mplayer output:
http://seahorseCorral.org/videos/tests/mplayer-svn20110120-rec10990.2x264.log
http://seahorseCorral.org/videos/tests/mplayer-svn20110120-rec10990.1x264.log
The only real difference, is the line
Suggested BufferSize:

My system information can be found in my request for help from 
Mplayer-users,
http://seahorseCorral.org/videos/tests/20140128_pond-W_rec10990.txt

I assume some library is too old, but not checked in the configure 
script. What else could cause this?

Stewart

-- 
http://seahorseCorral.org



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