[FFmpeg-user] Invalid riff index > 256 errors

[Morgan Carr Markell]

On Fri, Mar 1, 2019, 2:13 AM Moritz Barsnick <barsnick at gmx.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 08:44:13 +0100, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> > > ffmpeg version 2.6.2 Copyright (c)
> > This is four years old, please test current FFmpeg git head.
>
> Indeed, a quick use of a search engine would have shown this issue:
> https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/4225
> which was fixed with this commit:
>
> https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/bbcc09518e0d1efc189a43ff0120c1a31f51c802
> which was included in releases from 2.7.
>
> So that issue may long have been resolved.
>
> One more reason to not use old versions - bugs tend to get fixed. ;-)
>
> Moritz
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Thanks! I did try to find it using google, but only found one question
online which was never resolved. Clearly, you are better at searching than
I am. I'll have to ask the administrators for permission to install a more
recent version of ffmpeg.

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