[FFmpeg-devel] question on mosiac video issues -shortest

[Kieran Kunhya]

On Tue, 23 May 2017 at 10:26 Moritz Barsnick <barsnick at gmx.net> wrote:

> On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 23:36:07 +0000, Kyle Douglas wrote:
> > When using the param -shortest appears to have no impact on my ffmpeg
> > command using multiple inputs as source. One is a looping slate video
> that
> > stops and it seems to stop all other inputs when making a mp4 archive.
> Any
> > suggestions on what I can do as using another param or output syntax?
>

My understanding this is an intrinsic bug inside libavfilter in that a
mosaic is driven by incoming frames all being present. If one stream drops
then all of them fail.

But I am happy to for my understanding to be corrected...

Kieran