[FFmpeg-devel] -profile option broken(?)

Thu Sep 1 23:09:53 CEST 2011

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 5:04 PM,  <C2Dcks at aol.com> wrote:
> Can someone Please tell me what the hell this is? It keeps filling up my
> email & I don't have a clue whar's going on. None of it makes any since to
> me!! How can I stop it?
> Thanks I hope
> Carl

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>
>
> In a message dated 8/27/2011 5:54:02 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> michaelni at gmx.at writes:
>
> On Sat,  Jul 30, 2011 at 01:42:55PM -0800, Lou wrote:
>> On Wed, 20 Jul 2011  02:19:32 -0700
>> Thomas Worth <dev at rarevision.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Michael Niedermayer
>>  > <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
>> > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at  09:49:48AM +0200, Erik Slagter wrote:
>> > >> On 19-07-11 00:27,  Rodney Baker wrote:
>> > >>> On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 02:15:04  Erik Slagter wrote:
>> > >>>> There is something very  fishy:
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>> This  triggers the error:
>> > >>>>
>> >  >>>> /home/erik/src/ffmpeg/ffmpeg -y -probesize 500000000 -threads  16
>> > >>>> -i 00033.avi -vsync 0 -async 0 -profile high  -vcodec libx264
>> > >>>> -strict experimental -acodec aac  -ac 2 -ar 48000 -ab 192k -f
>> > >>>> mpegts  00033_tmp.ts
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>> when  I move -profile high to the start like this:
>> >  >>>>
>> > >>>> /home/erik/src/ffmpeg/ffmpeg  -profile high -y -probesize
>> > >>>> 500000000 -threads  16 -i 00033.avi -vsync 0 -async 0 -vcodec
>> > >>>>  libx264 -strict experimental -acodec aac -ac 2 -ar 48000 -ab
>> >  >>>> 192k -f mpegts 00033_tmp.ts
>> >  >>>>
>> > >>>> there is no error.
>> >  >>>
>> > >>> This probably belongs on the  ffmpeg-user mailing list,
>> > >>
>> > >> I agree,  but this looks like a bug and I am trying to fix it, or
>> > >>  at least pinpoint the patch that caused it.
>> > >>
>> >  >>> but have you tried
>> > >>> putting -profile  after -vcodec libx264? The order of command-line
>> > >>>  options in ffmpeg is important.
>> > >>
>> > >> I  know I know. The interesting part is
>> > >>
>> >  >> - the command line I'm using used to work a few weeks ago
>>  > >> - this error message is completely bogus
>> >  >>
>> > >> Also interesting is that git bisect can't  locate the offending
>> > >> patch, I guess that has something  to do with the large imports
>> > >> from "qatar".
>> >  >>
>> > >> Still, my question remains, can anyone try this  with a current
>> > >> version of ffmpeg (x86_64), so I know if  it's something I borked,
>> > >> although I have an almost clean  tree (a few totally unrelated
>> > >> patches, they've been the  same for months).
>> > >
>> > > I can confirm the  issue.
>> > > -vprofile high seems to work.
>> >  >
>> > > with -profile, one could argue it affects audio too and  i think
>> > > thats where it fails.
>> > > but i did  not investigate this at all ...
>> >
>> > I just happened to  run into this too while encoding for Blu-ray and
>> > for web. It does  fail, but only when including audio as you mentioned.
>> > My Blu-ray  script runs fine because it only generates a video file,
>> > but my  web script fails because it includes a separate audio file on
>> > the  ffmpeg command line. I get the following error:
>> >
>> >  [NULL @ 0x101801800] [Eval @ 0x7fff5fbfe140] Undefined constant or
>>  > missing '(' in 'baseline'
>> > [NULL @ 0x101801800] Unable to  parse option value "baseline"
>> > [NULL @ 0x101801800] Error setting  option profile to value baseline.
>> >
>> > This is on Mac OS  X/darwin x86_64.
>>
>> I can confirm this on a 32-bit Ubuntu Natty  VM with:
>>
>> ffmpeg -i IronMan.mkv -vcodec libx264 -preset medium  -profile \
>> baseline -crf 24 -strict experimental -acodec aac -y  ~/output.mp4
>> ffmpeg version N-31478-g5dc6bd8, Copyright (c) 2000-2011  the FFmpeg
>> developers
>>   built on Jul 30 2011  13:40:27 with gcc 4.5.2
>>   configuration: --enable-gpl  --enable-libx264
>> ...
>> [NULL @ 0xa194720] [Eval @ 0xbfc2e17c]  Undefined constant or missing
>> '(' in 'baseline' [NULL @ 0xa194720]  Unable to parse option value
>> "baseline" [NULL @ 0xa194720] Error  setting option profile to value
>> baseline.
>>
>> ...and some  users on ubuntuforums.org have mentioned the same issue.
>>
>>  5dc6bd86f0f5cfffb44b47e6e916119f26b12091 bad
>>  1885824b20a493d25db4b8e5397666e3a68f45f2 good
>>
>> I'm not sure  what it is from 5dc6bd86 that is causing the issue.
>
> in short -profile X  sets the profile for all streams, -vprofile X
> just for video streams
> X  is not valid for aac thus it fails.
>
> Iam not opposed to apply a patch if  someone has one to workaround this
> case but it really is the user asking  for something invalid and an
> error is not so wrong as a  result
>
>
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