[FFmpeg-user] Image extraction broken with ffmpeg, but not with mencoder. How can I fix this?

James Board jpboard2 at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 2 20:50:25 CEST 2013


If I convert a rawvideo, or ffvhuff-compressed AVI file to images
with both ffmpeg and mencoder, the images are not the same.   For
example, image 1000 from the mencoder output might correspond
to image 998 from ffmpeg.  As the image number gets higher and
higher, they diverge further.  The results are not consistent from one
video file to to the next.


This is causing my problems with incorrect cut edits:
The ffmpeg select filter is counting frames differently then the
ffmpeg image demuxer, or whatever you call the component that
ffmpeg uses to convert video into image files.


Why is this happening?  Is it possible that ffmpeg doesn't handle dropped
frames correctly?  Is there any easy way to fix this?  I spent several
hours editing video based on what now seems like incorrect frame
numbers.  Is there a way I can get ffmpeg to tell me when it dropped
a frame so that the output agrees with mencoder, which is correct?

Please tell me I didn't waste 4 hours because of an ffmpeg bug.


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