Re: [FFmpeg-user] mp4 concatenation (muxer) problems -- invalid output?

2017-02-20 Thread John Hawkinson
> >> The "video" was encoded by a hardware encoder, the "held frame" by > >> x264, you cannot concatenate them. > > When you say "cannot concatenate" do you mean with "-c copy" or not at all? > Didn't you try without -c copy? Yes, I tried both ways, and both produced invalid output. I'm not sure

Re: [FFmpeg-user] mp4 concatenation (muxer) problems -- invalid output?

2017-02-20 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
2017-02-21 1:54 GMT+01:00 John Hawkinson : >> The "video" was encoded by a hardware encoder, the "held frame" by >> x264, you cannot concatenate them. > > When you say "cannot concatenate" do you mean with "-c copy" or not at all? Didn't you try without -c copy? You cannot use the concat demuxer

Re: [FFmpeg-user] mp4 concatenation (muxer) problems -- invalid output?

2017-02-20 Thread John Hawkinson
Thanks, Carl Eugen. It looks like -r ntsc is perhaps a more user-friendly alias and produces the same output as -r 3/1001 (same md5 checksum). > The "video" was encoded by a hardware encoder, the "held frame" by > x264, you cannot concatenate them. When you say "cannot concatenate" do you mea

Re: [FFmpeg-user] mp4 concatenation (muxer) problems -- invalid output?

2017-02-20 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
2017-02-20 2:33 GMT+01:00 John A Hawkinson : > pb3:test jhawk$ ffmpeg -loop 1 -i f1.png -t 3.933 -pix_fmt yuv420p -r 29.97 > h5.mp4 If you want ntsc framerate, you have to specify -r 3/1001 > So, now I want to concatenate the held frame (3.9 seconds) with the > video (1.1 seconds). Their

Re: [FFmpeg-user] mp4 concatenation (muxer) problems -- invalid output?

2017-02-20 Thread John Hawkinson
I want to be clear -- I only gave my goal (stitching multiple videos together) so you'd have context. I'm not asking for help with the overall task, merely with the concatation problem. I don't mean to sound ungreatful, and Erik, I've tried to answer all your questions, even though they seem to be

Re: [FFmpeg-user] mp4 concatenation (muxer) problems -- invalid output?

2017-02-19 Thread Erik Dobberkau
Hi John, just to make sure I get this right, are you trying to build an advanced version of Vantage Camera Ingest? Have fun then... ;-) Let's go trough this step by step to find out if your approach makes sense: Obviously you're trying to concat recordings from a DSLR. -> Why are there gaps in b

[FFmpeg-user] mp4 concatenation (muxer) problems -- invalid output?

2017-02-19 Thread John A Hawkinson
Hi: I filed a bug yesterday and Cigaes suggested my problem wasn't really a bug and I should seek out help here, so I'm doing so. (Would it be better for me to try to do this in html email with some markup instead of plain text? Sorry there's so much ffmpeg/ffprobe output involved.) See https: