[FFmpeg-devel] Black Border on MOV Videos

[Aurelien Jacobs]

On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 18:31:10 -0500
PlatinumATLien <platinumatlien at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am using FFMPEG on a Red Hat linux server in conjunction with PHP in order
> to convert videos to FLV before they are streamed. I have installed FFMPEG
> with the following configuration:
> 
> ./configure --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libogg --enable-libvorbis
> --disable-mmx --enable-shared --enable-libfaad --enable-libfaac
> --enable-liba52 --enable-liba52bin --enable-pp --enable-pthreads
> --enable-gpl --disable-strip --enable-libvorbis --enable-libamr-wb
> --enable-libxvid --enable-libx264 --enable-libtheora --enable-libamr-nb
> 
> Now the exact problem I am having is that a black border appears on certain
> MOV videos after being converted to FLV. The border could be described
> precisely as appearing on the right of and below the video being played and
> is rather thick, lowering the video space of the actual video. This awkward
> border also appears on thumbnails created by FFMPEG.

Sounds like issue 32 (or duplicate issue 106):
https://roundup.mplayerhq.hu/roundup/ffmpeg/issue32

Aurel