kimastergeorge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: In MPEG-1 & MPEG-2, creating a video from a series of image files which are 4096 pixels wide will work, but the resulting video does not have the correct headers. The sequence extension header will not fill in the bits used for additional size information. In this case, the width will show up as 0 in the sequence header, as it should, but the 2 bits in the sequence extension which are intended to extend this will show up as 00 when they should be 01. This means the width is written as 0, which is not at all the intention.
I have a small patch which fixes this, but the files it generates give an error when I try to decode them with FFmpeg. I have attached the patch. Here are the results of encoding with my patch: $ ./ffmpeg -y -t 1 -an -r 24 -bf 2 -i ~/4KpxVidNEW/shot2_tiffSeq/data/shot2_static_%05d.tiff -vcodec mpeg2video -qscale 10 too_big.m2v FFmpeg version SVN-r13943, Copyright (c) 2000-2008 Fabrice Bellard, et al. configuration: libavutil version: 49.7.0 libavcodec version: 51.57.2 libavformat version: 52.16.0 libavdevice version: 52.0.0 built on Jun 24 2008 09:55:54, gcc: 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465) Input #0, image2, from '/Users/wuchi/4KpxVidNEW/shot2_tiffSeq/data/shot2_static_%05d.tiff': Duration: 00:00:12.50, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A Stream #0.0: Video: tiff, rgb24, 4096x2048, 24.00 tb(r) Output #0, mpeg2video, to 'too_big.m2v': Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 4096x2048, q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 24.00 tb(c) Stream mapping: Stream #0.0 -> #0.0 Press [q] to stop encoding frame= 24 fps= 5 q=10.0 Lsize= 1536kB time=0.96 bitrate=13129.8kbits/s video:1536kB audio:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 0.000000% Here are the results of decoding a video created with my patch: ./ffmpeg -y -i too_big.m2v -an -sameq too_big_2.m2v FFmpeg version SVN-r13943, Copyright (c) 2000-2008 Fabrice Bellard, et al. configuration: libavutil version: 49.7.0 libavcodec version: 51.57.2 libavformat version: 52.16.0 libavdevice version: 52.0.0 built on Jun 24 2008 09:55:54, gcc: 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465) [mpegvideo @ 0x41e020]Could not find codec parameters (Video: mpeg2video, 4096x2048, 104857 kb/s) too_big.m2v: could not find codec parameters ______________________________________________________ FFmpeg issue tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <https://roundup.mplayerhq.hu/roundup/ffmpeg/issue499> ______________________________________________________