[FFmpeg-user] h264 not decoding

[Bouke]

hmm,
Action / sports / helmet cam?
Do share the model / make, as i want to buy one myself :-)
Does a straight import in Avid work?

And just for fun, can i have a look at one of the files?

Bouke

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rens Dijkshoorn" <rens at onlinemedia.nl>
To: "FFmpeg user questions and RTFMs" <ffmpeg-user at ffmpeg.org>
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-user] h264 not decoding


> Hi Bouke
>
> its not that simple, file is recorded by some sort
> of flash based camera i'm still waiting on the details
> about settings type of camera etc.
>
> And more files are underway so i would like to bring into
> our standard workflow.
>
> If i just use video copy to h264 the resulting video is
> not playable at all. During conversion i get these kind
> of error messages...
>
> [h264 @ 0x10100c200] st:0 error, non monotone timestamps 100800 >= 99040
> [NULL @ 0x101014200] non-existing SPS 2 referenced in buffering 
> periodbits/s
> [h264 @ 0x10100c200] st:0 error, non monotone timestamps 9882000 >= 
> 9882000/s
> [h264 @ 0x10100c200] st:0 error, non monotone timestamps 10011600 >= 
> 10011600
> [NULL @ 0x101014200] non-existing SPS 2 referenced in buffering 
> periodkbits/s
> [h264 @ 0x10100c200] st:0 error, non monotone timestamps 50425200 >= 
> 50411200
>
> sofar no luck
>
> Rens
>
>
>> Hi Bouke,
>>
>> i'am told Windows Media Player 11 can play without any problems
>> en free-mts-converter found at
>>
>> http://www.topsevenreviews.com/free-mts-converter.html
>>
>> can convert into something more usefull, but i would like to handle
>> the files in my ffmpeg based batch converter on a Mac.
>
> Rens,
> Perhaps copy protection stuff that is messing things up?
> Where did you get the file?
> And if it is a one-off, and you have means to convert it, why not use that
> and just be done with it?
>
> Bouke
>
>
>> Regards Rens
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> i would like to convert this TEST.MTS file to something more usable in
>>> Avid Mediacomposer
>>> but sofar all programs tested (Avid, VLC, FFmpeg, FFmbc, MpegStreamClip
>>> Mplayer & Quicktime )
>>> failed to decode the file properly, most of the time you get some decode
>>> macroblocks at the
>>> top of the picture but about 80 % remains green, we have some audio but
>>> decoding is poor.
>>
>> Eeer, at risk of stating the obvious,
>> if NOTHING can decode the file, are you sure the file isn't suffering 
>> from
>> bitrot?
>> What does play back the file then?
>>
>> Bouke
>>
>>
>>
>>> ffprobe gives the following output.
>>>
>>> # ffprobe -pretty TEST.MTS
>>>
>>> FFprobe version 0.6.1, Copyright (c) 2007-2010 the FFmpeg developers
>>> built on Feb 4 2011 11:57:14 with gcc 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5664)
>>> configuration:
>>> arch=x86_64 --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libfaac --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264
>>> --enable-gpl
>>> --enable-nonfree --enable-pthreads --enable-shared
>>>
>>> libavutil 50.15. 1 / 50.15. 1
>>> libavcodec 52.72. 2 / 52.72. 2
>>> libavformat 52.64. 2 / 52.64. 2
>>> libavdevice 52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0
>>> libswscale 0.11. 0 / 0.11. 0
>>>
>>> [h264 @ 0x101009200]top block unavailable for requested intra4x4 mode -1
>>> at 67 0
>>> [h264 @ 0x101009200]error while decoding MB 67 0, bytestream (312813)
>>>
>>> Input #0, mpegts, from 'TEST.MTS':
>>> Duration: 00:11:53.01, start: 1.000033, bitrate: 23846 kb/s
>>> Program 1
>>> Stream #0.0[0x1011]: Video: h264, yuv420p, 1920x1080 [PAR 1:1 DAR
>>> 16:9], 50 fps, 2250 tbr, 90k tbn, 50 tbc
>>> Stream #0.1[0x1100]: Audio: pcm_bluray, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 1536
>>> kb/s
>>>
>>> Any ideas what to try
>>>
>>>
>>> Rens Dijkshoorn
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