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  • FFmpeg crossfading with audio keeps throwing [AVFilterGraph @ 0x...] No such filter: '', but works video only

    5 December, by J. Cravens

    I've got this script that crossfade's all mp4's in the directory. If I try to add the audio, with this, it doesn't work.

    VIDEO="fade=in:st=0:d=1:alpha=1,setpts=PTS-STARTPTS+(${fade_start}/TB)[v${i}];"
AUDIO="[0:a]afade=d=1[a0];"

    This works fine...

    #!/bin/bash

CMD="ffmpeg"
FILES=(*.mp4)
SIZE=${#FILES[@]}
VIDEO=""
OUT=""

i="0"
total_duration="0"
for file in "${FILES[@]}"; do
  echo "$file"
  CMD="$CMD -i '$file'"

  duration=$(ffprobe -v error -select_streams v:0 -show_entries stream=duration -of csv=p=0 "$file" | cut -d'.' -f1)

  if [[ "$i" == "0" ]]
  then
    VIDEO="[0:v]setpts=PTS-STARTPTS[v0];"
  else
    fade_start=$((total_duration))
    VIDEO="${VIDEO}[${i}:v]format=yuva420p,fade=in:st=0:d=1:alpha=1,setpts=PTS-STARTPTS+(${fade_start}/TB)[v${i}];"
    if (( i < SIZE-1 ))
    then
      if (( i == 1 ))
      then
        OUT="${OUT}[v0][v1]overlay[outv1];"
      else
        OUT="${OUT}[outv$((i-1))][v${i}]overlay[outv${i}];"
      fi
    else
      if (( SIZE == 2 ))
      then
        OUT="${OUT}[v0][v1]overlay,format=yuv420p[outv]"
      else
        OUT="${OUT}[outv$((i-1))][v${i}]overlay,format=yuv420p[outv]"
      fi
    fi
  fi

  total_duration=$((total_duration+duration))

  i=$((i+1))
done

CMD="$CMD -filter_complex \"${VIDEO}${OUT}\" -c:v libx264 -preset ultrafast -map [outv] crossfade.mp4"

echo "$CMD"

bash -c "$CMD"

    ...but when I try to add the audio, it's not happy. I'm missing something.

    Anyone know what is going on? I read of cases leaving an extra ; at the end causing "No such filter", but I tried echo ${VIDEO%?} before the command, it didn't seem to make a difference. I read acrossfade requires 32bit little endian, so I went to afade, it didn't change anything. Ideas?

    Update:

    #!/bin/bash

duration_a=$(ffprobe -v error -select_streams a:0 -show_entries stream=duration -of csv=p=0 -i audio_02.m4a)
ffmpeg -i audio_01.m4a -i audio_02.m4a -filter_complex \
"[0:a] \
[1:a]acrossfade=d=1.0:c1=tri:c2=tri,asetpts=PTS-STARTPTS+'$duration_a'[outa]" -vn -map "[outa]" 01_02.m4a

duration_b=$(ffprobe -v error -select_streams a:0 -show_entries stream=duration -of csv=p=0 -i audio_03.m4a)
ffmpeg -i 01_02.m4a -i audio_03.m4a -filter_complex \
"[0:a] \
[1:a]acrossfade=d=1.0:c1=tri:c2=tri,asetpts=PTS-STARTPTS+'$duration_b'[outa]" -vn -map "[outa]" 01_02_03.m4a

    ...and so on. This still doesn't properly sync the a/v. I noticed the first 2 always had audio sync proper, so I tried to do it, one at a time, appending the next. It still goes out of sync, regardless of using asetpts=PTS-STARTPTS.

    Update 2: I've got this working via fade in/out.

    #!/bin/bash

if [ -e *.mkv ]; then
  file_type=".mkv"
else
  file_type=".mp4"
fi

mkdir ./temp
for file in *$file_type; do mv "$file" "in_$file"; done

# Function to fade in video
function fade_in() {
file_list1=(in_*)
  echo "Executing fade_in"
  for file in "${file_list1[@]}"; do
    ffmpeg -i "$file" -y -vf fade=in:0:30 -hide_banner -preset ultrafast "out_$file"
  done
mv in_* ./temp
}
export -f fade_in

# Function to fade out video
function fade_out() {
  file_list2=(out_*)
  echo "Executing fade_out"
  for file in "${file_list2[@]}"; do
    frame_count=$(ffmpeg -i $file -map 0:v:0 -c copy -f null -y /dev/null 2>&1 | grep -Eo 'frame= *[0-9]+ *' | grep -Eo '[0-9]+' | tail -1)
      frame_start=$((frame_count - 30))
      ffmpeg -i "$file" -y -vf fade=out:"$frame_start":30 -hide_banner -preset ultrafast "to_mux_$file"
  done
  mv out_* ./temp
}

export -f fade_out

bash -c "fade_in"
bash -c "fade_out"

ls --quoting-style=shell-always -1v *$file_type > tmp.txt
sed 's/^/file /' tmp.txt > list.txt && rm tmp.txt

ffmpeg -f concat -safe 0 -i list.txt -c copy -shortest -movflags +faststart fade_muxed$file_type

mv to_mux_* ./temp
rm list.txt
#rm -rf ./temp

exit 0

    Number the filename's sequentially (i.e. 01_file.mkv 02_file.mkv etc.), to ensure order, or it will be up to the directory sort.

    It's not a crossfade, but it's pretty decent and has audio.
    Still working on the crossfade + audio.

  • OpenCV cannot read AVI/MP4 file. [mpeg4 @ 0x55935a6280c0] get_buffer() failed

    5 December, by Alex Murphy

    I am trying to read single frames from an mp4 file using open-cv in Python

    video_path = 'test.mp4'
cam = cv2.VideoCapture(video_path, cv2.CAP_FFMPEG)

success,image = cam.read()
count = 0
while success:
    success,image = cam.read()
    print('Read a new frame: ', success)
    count += 1

    The success boolean instantly evaluates to false when trying to read the first frame. These are the errors I'm getting:

    [mpeg4 @ 0x55935a6280c0] get_buffer() failed
[mpeg4 @ 0x55935a6280c0] thread_get_buffer() failed
[mpeg4 @ 0x55935a6280c0] get_buffer() failed (-12 (nil))
[mpeg4 @ 0x55935a52bd80] Too many errors when draining, this is a bug. Stop draining and force EOF.

    I can convert files from mp4 to avi and avi to mp4 using ffmpeg in my terminal. It also shows no signs of the files being corrupted. The code still doesn't work when trying to read an mp4. I have 20GB of RAM so I don't think it is a RAM problem.

    Python 3.6.13, opencv-python 3.4.18.65. Using Linux

    Edit: Restarting machine and changing from 20GB RAM to 40GB sometimes fixes it. Considering its a 17 second file only a few MB big this doesn't seem to make sense?

  • fluent-ffmpeg failed with zero output or errors

    5 December, by dcprime

    I'm attempting to convert a .webm audio file to a .wav audio file using fluent-ffmpeg. I've looked through all kinds of example code, but whenever I run my code I get no output or errors whatsoever:

    import ffmpeg from 'fluent-ffmpeg';

function verifyAudio({ testFile }) {

    // parse file name for wav file from testFile
    const wavFile = testFile.split('.')[0] + '.wav';
    console.log(`wavFile: ${wavFile}`);

    // convert to wav file
    ffmpeg(testFile)
        .inputFormat('webm')
        .outputFormat('wav')
        .on('start', function(commandLine) {
            console.log('Spawned Ffmpeg with command: ' + commandLine);
        })
        .on('progress', (progress) => {
            console.log('Processing: ' + progress.targetSize + ' KB converted');
        })
        .on('end', function(err) {
            console.log('done!', err);
        })
        .on('error', function(err) {
            console.log('an error: ' + err);
        }).saveToFile(wavFile);
    console.log('finished conversion');
}

export { verifyAudio };

    This function takes in the name of the input .webm file as an argument, and attempts to convert it to a .wav file with filename wavFile. When this runs, I see the output of console.log(wavFile: ${wavFile});, I see the output of console.log('finished conversion');, but none of the .on outputs in the ffmpeg call. No errors are raised at all. Not even when I insert a non-existent filename as testFile. And no output file is generated (not even an empty one).

    I have no idea what's going on here, since I have no output to debug on! What is happening here?

    I've tried many combinations of defining inputs and outputs, including the various formats. I've tried doing the conversion on the command line using ffmpeg, it it works fine.

    I'm expecting to see the output file: A .wav file with the filename wavFile. I see nothing.

  • How do I get videoshow (or any other js package) to merge image and sound files to the length I specify rather than a constant length of 5 seconds?

    5 December, by Bragon

    I’m trying to take an image file and a sound file and merge them together into an mp4 file. To this end, I use videoshow.js which is basically a wrapper for fluent-ffmpeg.js. For some reason, videoshow always sets the duration of the output file to 5 seconds regardless of what I set the loop parameter to. And to top it all off, it fades out the sound towards the end of the clip.

    I’m happy for any solution to this even if it doesn’t include the use of videoshow or fluent-ffmpeg.

    const url = require('url');
const { smartLog } = require('../services/smart-log');
const { getFile, getDuration } = require('../services/file-service');
const videoshow = require('videoshow');
const path = require('path');
const FFmpeg = require('fluent-ffmpeg');
const fs = require('fs');

const imgToMP4 = (caption, sound, image, duration, output) => {
  smartLog('info', `Converting ${image}`);
  const images = [image];

  const videoOptions = {
    fps: 10,
    loop: duration,
    transition: false,
    videoBitrate: 1024,
    videoCodec: 'libx264',
    size: '640x?',
    audioBitrate: '128k',
    audioChannels: 2,
    format: 'mp4',
    pixelFormat: 'yuv420p',
  };

  videoshow([
    {
      path: image,
    },
  ])
    .audio(sound)
    .save(output)
    .on('start', function (command) {
      smartLog('info', `ffmpeg process started: ${image}`);
    })
    .on('error', function (err) {
      smartLog('error', err);
    })
    .on('end', function (output) {
      smartLog('info', `Video created: ${output}`);
    });
};

  • Ffmpeg merge audio, video and watermark not working properly

    5 December, by ltvie
    ffmpeg -y -i inputVideo.mp4 -itsoffset 50 -i inputAudio.mp3 -i watermark.png -filter_complex  "[0][1]amix=inputs=2:weights='1 0.5'[a];[0][2]overlay=(W/2-w/2):(H-h-21)[ovr0]" -map [ovr0]:v  -map [a] -preset faster -shortest ouputVideo.mp4

    I used above command to merge audio, video and adding a watermark, it work and successfully merged, but the quality of the output video very poor and the '-shortest' tag didn't work. How can I resolve this? I want the video to have the same quality as the original and for 'shortest' working properly

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