Bug#420233: Output from ffmpeg2theora does not play

Christophe Mutricy xtophe at nxtelevision.com
Mon Jun 25 21:35:03 UTC 2007


Hello,

> I have a video processing script which includes this step: 
>   sf -t FakePipe:debug=0 -t Scratch \
>   ffmpeg2theora -c 0 -o t.ogg -f image2 \
>    /volatile/ian/tmp/d/composed/frame%06d.ppm --inputfps 30
> 
> The resulting video t.ogg is playable just fine with ffplay.  However
> with vlc I see only a black video window.  The window is of the right
> size and the progress scroller advances in an apparently normal way.
> 
> vlc reports no messages on its controlling tty except
>   VLC media player 0.8.6a Janus
> and then at the end
>   [00000279] main playlist: nothing to play
> 
> The file t.ogg (10339K) is available here:
>  http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ijackson/vlc-ffmpeg2theoraoutput.ogg

Do you still have this problem? With the current VLC in sid it plays
correctly. but it's taking a lot of CPU.

-- 
Xtophe




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