[FFmpeg-user] Problem with recorded YouTube stream

[H]

On 04/22/2020 02:04 PM, Carl Zwanzig wrote:
> On 4/22/2020 10:39 AM, H wrote:
>
>> I downloaded the latest version for CentOS 7 from the ffmpeg website
>> after your first e-mail and my two previous posts were based on that.
> And that is not the _latest_ ffmpeg (forget about "for centos", it's not).
>
>
> All of these errors say the basically the same thing, the file is well-damaged-
>
>> [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x215fe80] moov atom not found
>> RRTepdBvUFE.mp4: Invalid data found when processing input
>
>> [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x7fca54c41360] moov atom not found
>> [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x7fca2cc09fa0] moov atom not found
>
> > [ffmpeg/demuxer] mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2: moov atom not found
>
> (mplayer can't even tell the format)
>> RAWDV file format detected.
>> VIDEO:  [DVSD]  720x480  24bpp  29.970 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
>> Selected video codec: [ffdv] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg DV)
>
> If you google for "moov atom not found", you'll find a pile of suggestions and pointers to some tools. At this point, that will probably help more than poking about with ffmpeg options.
>
>
> For future recordings, consider using a different output container like flv or ts (or mkv?); those are more resilient to streaming errors.
>
>
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So you are saying that despite knowing the settings youtube-dl used when recording the file, it is not possible to use that knowledge when using ffmpeg to play the file back (barring damage while recording the file which I have no evidence for)?