[FFmpeg-user] Error reading 10bit H264 in Matroska

[Leo Izen]

On 07/15/2015 11:12 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> Leo Izen <leo.izen <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I have a peculiar case. I have a matroska file that's
>> got an h264 stream inside. When I play this file with
>> ffplay, it plays fine. However, ffmpeg cannot read it
>> correctly.
>
> Please provide the sample.
>
> Carl Eugen

When I cut the sample file down to 10 MB in size, it stops playing with 
ffplay and it's not reproducable. However, if I cut it down to 20 MB, 
the same error as previously described appears. According to 
https://www.ffmpeg.org/bugreports.html, you don't want samples larger 
than 10 MB.

The 10 MB sample gets stuck demuxing with:
[matroska,webm @ 0x7fab500008c0] Read error

(Full, uncut output of ffplay: http://pastebin.com/ChEq2YZB)
(ffmpeg has the same output as before basically)

This is unsurprisng given than it's an HD (Bluray quality) file and 10 
MB isn't enough to seek. What this does suggest is that ffplay is 
somehow looking ahead into the second ten megabytes in order to 
determine the file parameters and FFplay isn't.

Should I make an exception and upload the 20 MB file instead?

-Leo