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• How to calculate ffmpeg output file size ?

  25 septembre 2011, par poundifdef

  I am using ffmpeg to convert home videos to DVD format and want to calculate the output file size before doing the conversion.

  My input file has a bit rate of 7700 kbps and is 114 seconds long. The audio bitrate is 256 kbit (per second?) The input file is 77MB. To get this information I ran:

  mplayer -vo null -ao null -frames 0 -identify input.MOD

  So in theory, the input file should have (roughly) a file size of:

  ((7700 / 8) * 114) / 1024

  That is, (7700 / 8) is kilobytes/second, multiplied by 114 seconds, and then converted to megabytes. This gives me 107MB, which is way beyond my 77. Thus I am skeptical of his formula.

  That said, after converting the video:

  ffmpeg -i input.MOD -y -target ntsc-dvd -sameq -aspect 4:3 output.mpg
  

  The numbers seem to make more sense. Bitrate is 9000 kbps, and applying the above formula, I get 125MB, and my actual output file size is 126MB.

  So, two questions:

  1. How do I factor the audio bitrate into this calculation? Is it additive (video file size + audio file size)?

  2. Do DVDs always have a 9000 kilobit/second rate? Is that the definition of a DVD? Or might that change depending on video quality of my input video? What does "-target ntsc-dvd" guarantee about my video?

  3. Why does my input file not "match" the calculation, but the output file does? Is there some other variable I'm not accounting for?

  What is the correct way to calculate filesize?

• Convert image sequence to flv video [closed]

  24 septembre 2011, par Lotus

  is it possible, using PHP/FFMPEG, to convert a sequence of jpeg files (with progressive names, eg 0001.jpg, 0002.jpg, and so on) to a flv file?

• FFmpeg problem while writing streams to file

  23 septembre 2011, par NoviceAndNovice

  I finally "able" to write video stream packets to a file using the function

  av_interleaved_write_frame(outputContext, &packet);
  

  But after a short period of time i got this error:

  Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer 
  in stream 0: *numberX* >= *numberY*
  

  Anybody has any idea, what may cause this? And how to fix it?

  Best Wishes

• Simple way to grab thumbnail of FLV in ASP.NET without changing permissions on server ?

  23 septembre 2011, par Rhys Causey

  I'm looking for a simple way to grab thumbnails of FLVs in ASP.NET, without having to change any permissions/settings on the server. Ideally, nothing is installed on the server machine, but if necessary, small tools such as FFmpeg are fine.

  I've tried FFmpeg using the command-line tool with Process.Start, but the same command that works in a Windows Forms application and from the command prompt does not work in ASP.NET (presumably because of permissions).

  I've also tried using TAO.FFmpeg, and it seems to be working most of the time, but fails randomly, and does not start working again until the machine is restarted. Even when I use the sample code (decoder.cs), it sometimes fails when I try to open multiple videos in a single request.

  If this isn't possible in a clean/straightforward way, I'm open to other suggestions.

• Libavcodec : How to tell end of access unit when decoding H.264 stream

  22 septembre 2011, par Flame

  I'm receiving H.264 video over RTP and decoding it with libavcodec. I'm unpackaging the NAL units from the RTP packets before feeding them to avcodec (including reassembling fragmentation units).

  I'm trying to show effective decoding frame rate. I used to log the time after a successful decode video call where *got_picture_ptr is non-zero. So far this worked since I only ever got video where there was one slice per frame. But now I receive video where both I and P frames consist of 2 NAL units each, of types 5 and 1 respectively. Now when I feed the either slice of a frame, decode_video return that it got a picture, and the pAVFrame->coded_picture_number is increased from every slice.

  How do I go about reliably finding the beginning or end of a video frame/picture/access unit?

  I've dumped out a few NAL units from the stream and run them through h264_analyze from h264bitstream.

  Output from h264_analyze on 4 NAL Units

  !! Found NAL at offset 695262 (0xA9BDE), size 25 (0x0019) 
  ==================== NAL ====================
   forbidden_zero_bit : 0 
   nal_ref_idc : 1 
   nal_unit_type : 7 ( Sequence parameter set ) 
  ======= SPS =======
   profile_idc : 66 
   constraint_set0_flag : 1 
   constraint_set1_flag : 1 
   constraint_set2_flag : 1 
   constraint_set3_flag : 0 
   reserved_zero_4bits : 0 
   level_idc : 32 
   seq_parameter_set_id : 0 
   chroma_format_idc : 0 
   residual_colour_transform_flag : 0 
   bit_depth_luma_minus8 : 0 
   bit_depth_chroma_minus8 : 0 
   qpprime_y_zero_transform_bypass_flag : 0 
   seq_scaling_matrix_present_flag : 0 
   log2_max_frame_num_minus4 : 12 
   pic_order_cnt_type : 2 
     log2_max_pic_order_cnt_lsb_minus4 : 0 
     delta_pic_order_always_zero_flag : 0 
     offset_for_non_ref_pic : 0 
     offset_for_top_to_bottom_field : 0 
     num_ref_frames_in_pic_order_cnt_cycle : 0 
   num_ref_frames : 1 
   gaps_in_frame_num_value_allowed_flag : 0 
   pic_width_in_mbs_minus1 : 79 
   pic_height_in_map_units_minus1 : 44 
   frame_mbs_only_flag : 1 
   mb_adaptive_frame_field_flag : 0 
   direct_8x8_inference_flag : 1 
   frame_cropping_flag : 0 
     frame_crop_left_offset : 0 
     frame_crop_right_offset : 0 
     frame_crop_top_offset : 0 
     frame_crop_bottom_offset : 0 
   vui_parameters_present_flag : 1 
  === VUI ===
   aspect_ratio_info_present_flag : 1 
     aspect_ratio_idc : 1 
       sar_width : 0 
       sar_height : 0 
   overscan_info_present_flag : 0 
     overscan_appropriate_flag : 0 
   video_signal_type_present_flag : 1 
     video_format : 5 
     video_full_range_flag : 1 
     colour_description_present_flag : 0 
       colour_primaries : 0 
     transfer_characteristics : 0 
     matrix_coefficients : 0 
   chroma_loc_info_present_flag : 0 
     chroma_sample_loc_type_top_field : 0 
     chroma_sample_loc_type_bottom_field : 0 
   timing_info_present_flag : 1 
     num_units_in_tick : 1 
     time_scale : 25 
     fixed_frame_rate_flag : 0 
   nal_hrd_parameters_present_flag : 0 
   vcl_hrd_parameters_present_flag : 0 
     low_delay_hrd_flag : 0 
   pic_struct_present_flag : 0 
   bitstream_restriction_flag : 1 
     motion_vectors_over_pic_boundaries_flag : 1 
     max_bytes_per_pic_denom : 0 
     max_bits_per_mb_denom : 0 
     log2_max_mv_length_horizontal : 6 
     log2_max_mv_length_vertical : 6 
     num_reorder_frames : 0 
     max_dec_frame_buffering : 1 
  === HRD ===
   cpb_cnt_minus1 : 0 
   bit_rate_scale : 0 
   cpb_size_scale : 0 
   initial_cpb_removal_delay_length_minus1 : 0 
   cpb_removal_delay_length_minus1 : 0 
   dpb_output_delay_length_minus1 : 0 
   time_offset_length : 0 
  !! Found NAL at offset 695290 (0xA9BFA), size 4 (0x0004) 
  ==================== NAL ====================
   forbidden_zero_bit : 0 
   nal_ref_idc : 1 
   nal_unit_type : 8 ( Picture parameter set ) 
  ======= PPS =======
   pic_parameter_set_id : 0 
   seq_parameter_set_id : 0 
   entropy_coding_mode_flag : 0 
   pic_order_present_flag : 0 
   num_slice_groups_minus1 : 0 
   slice_group_map_type : 0 
   num_ref_idx_l0_active_minus1 : 0 
   num_ref_idx_l1_active_minus1 : 0 
   weighted_pred_flag : 0 
   weighted_bipred_idc : 0 
   pic_init_qp_minus26 : 3 
   pic_init_qs_minus26 : 0 
   chroma_qp_index_offset : 0 
   deblocking_filter_control_present_flag : 1 
   constrained_intra_pred_flag : 0 
   redundant_pic_cnt_present_flag : 0 
   transform_8x8_mode_flag : 1 
   pic_scaling_matrix_present_flag : 0 
   second_chroma_qp_index_offset : 1 
  !! Found NAL at offset 695297 (0xA9C01), size 50725 (0xC625) 
  ==================== NAL ====================
   forbidden_zero_bit : 0 
   nal_ref_idc : 1 
   nal_unit_type : 5 ( Coded slice of an IDR picture ) 
  ======= Slice Header =======
   first_mb_in_slice : 0 
   slice_type : 2 ( I slice ) 
   pic_parameter_set_id : 0 
   frame_num : 0 
   field_pic_flag : 0 
   bottom_field_flag : 0 
   idr_pic_id : 0 
   pic_order_cnt_lsb : 0 
   delta_pic_order_cnt_bottom : 0 
   redundant_pic_cnt : 0 
   direct_spatial_mv_pred_flag : 0 
   num_ref_idx_active_override_flag : 0 
   num_ref_idx_l0_active_minus1 : 0 
   num_ref_idx_l1_active_minus1 : 0 
   cabac_init_idc : 0 
   slice_qp_delta : 5 
   sp_for_switch_flag : 0 
   slice_qs_delta : 0 
   disable_deblocking_filter_idc : 0 
   slice_alpha_c0_offset_div2 : 0 
   slice_beta_offset_div2 : 0 
   slice_group_change_cycle : 0 
  === Prediction Weight Table ===
   luma_log2_weight_denom : 0 
   chroma_log2_weight_denom : 0 
   luma_weight_l0_flag : 0 
   chroma_weight_l0_flag : 0 
   luma_weight_l1_flag : 0 
   chroma_weight_l1_flag : 0 
  === Ref Pic List Reordering ===
   ref_pic_list_reordering_flag_l0 : 0 
   ref_pic_list_reordering_flag_l1 : 0 
  === Decoded Ref Pic Marking ===
   no_output_of_prior_pics_flag : 0 
   long_term_reference_flag : 0 
   adaptive_ref_pic_marking_mode_flag : 0 
  !! Found NAL at offset 746025 (0xB6229), size 38612 (0x96D4) 
  ==================== NAL ====================
   forbidden_zero_bit : 0 
   nal_ref_idc : 1 
   nal_unit_type : 5 ( Coded slice of an IDR picture ) 
  ======= Slice Header =======
   first_mb_in_slice : 1840 
   slice_type : 2 ( I slice ) 
   pic_parameter_set_id : 0 
   frame_num : 0 
   field_pic_flag : 0 
   bottom_field_flag : 0 
   idr_pic_id : 0 
   pic_order_cnt_lsb : 0 
   delta_pic_order_cnt_bottom : 0 
   redundant_pic_cnt : 0 
   direct_spatial_mv_pred_flag : 0 
   num_ref_idx_active_override_flag : 0 
   num_ref_idx_l0_active_minus1 : 0 
   num_ref_idx_l1_active_minus1 : 0 
   cabac_init_idc : 0 
   slice_qp_delta : 5 
   sp_for_switch_flag : 0 
   slice_qs_delta : 0 
   disable_deblocking_filter_idc : 0 
   slice_alpha_c0_offset_div2 : 0 
   slice_beta_offset_div2 : 0 
   slice_group_change_cycle : 0 
  === Prediction Weight Table ===
   luma_log2_weight_denom : 0 
   chroma_log2_weight_denom : 0 
   luma_weight_l0_flag : 0 
   chroma_weight_l0_flag : 0 
   luma_weight_l1_flag : 0 
   chroma_weight_l1_flag : 0 
  === Ref Pic List Reordering ===
   ref_pic_list_reordering_flag_l0 : 0 
   ref_pic_list_reordering_flag_l1 : 0 
  === Decoded Ref Pic Marking ===
   no_output_of_prior_pics_flag : 0 
   long_term_reference_flag : 0 
   adaptive_ref_pic_marking_mode_flag : 0 

  Both I slices show the frame_num = 0. The next 2 (not shown) have frame_num = 1.