[Ffmpeg-devel] [BUG] mandatory mp3 codec

[Måns Rullgård]

Christian Bienia <cbienia at CS.Princeton.EDU> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure whether this is really a bug, but it seems that ffmpeg
> refuses to work if it hasn't been compiled with mp3 support. I tried to
> create a simple test video with no audio, but ffmpeg complains about
> missing audio codec parameters. The exact command I use was:
>
> ffmpeg -i 02350.png test_640x360_1.mov
>
> The output I get is:
>
> FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
>   configuration:  --enable-pthreads --disable-ffserver --disable-ffplay
> --prefix=/home/cbienia/ffmpeg 
>   libavutil version: 49.0.0
>   libavcodec version: 51.14.0
>   libavformat version: 50.5.0
>   built on Sep 16 2006 17:46:37, gcc: 4.0.2 20051125 (Red Hat 4.0.2-8)
> [mp3 @ 0x833b4c0]Could not find codec parameters (Audio: mp1, 256 kb/s)
> 02350.png: could not find codec parameters

It looks like it's misdetecting that PNG as an mp3 file.  Could you
please upload the file that's causing this?

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M?ns Rullg?rd
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