[FFmpeg-user] ffprobe for mp3: "Invalid data found when processing input"

Charles Winthrop charlie at nts-show.com
Fri Jan 29 18:34:34 CET 2016


As I said, it's not the first screwy thing I've seen it do.

Example:
A video file streams flawlessly from ffmpeg, but when put into a list, 
crashes every time. And yet, nobody can explain why.

On 1/29/2016 12:31 PM, James Mead wrote:
> On 29 January 2016 at 18:26, Charles Winthrop <charlie at nts-show.com> wrote:
>> "The file has an ID3 tag including an artwork PNG image of ~1MB."
>>
>> But when you crop said image, the error goes away. Therefore, ffprobe
>> "thinks" there's a limit.
> That's what I thought initially, but I have other mp3 files with the
> same artwork image (un-cropped) and those are detected without an
> error, e.g. this one [3].
>
> [3]: https://www.dropbox.com/s/udhph9btqkq0zba/example-without-error-2.mp3?dl=0
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