[FFmpeg-user] What havens if ffmpeg runs out of memory?

Dennis Mungai dmngaie at gmail.com
Thu Apr 4 04:53:25 EEST 2019


On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 at 01:52, Nick <vincent at systemli.org> wrote:

> I started like 6 4k to dash(mp4) codings on a machine with around 34 GB
> RAM. In addition, after coding I used ffprobe to analyze them per frame.
> (everything parallel using docker instances)
> At the end I have weird erros. Some chunks in the middle have 0byte.
> The coding finished and the duration is correct.
> When playing the playback continues while the video freezes. If you play
> a 0byte chunk ffmpeg says:
>
> Invalid NAL unit 0, skipping
> error while decoding MB 117 1, bystream -13
> ...
> Invalid NAL unit size (-10... > 336779).
> ...
>
> When calculating the ssim for this video, the value drops to 5.123...
>
> Best,
> Nick
>
>
>
Provide the full, uncut console output and the ffmpeg command-line used.


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