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• Screen capture (video screencast) with FFMPEG with very low FPS

  20 septembre 2023, par jesusda

  I recently changed PCs, I went from having an Intel Core i5 4460 with integrated graphics card to a Xeon E5 2678 v3 with AMD RADEON RX 550 graphics.

  


  On paper, the new PC is on the order of 3 to 7 times more powerful than the old one and I can attest that this is the case in daily use, video and image editing etc. The advantage of having so many cores and threads available is palpable. In terms of games I haven't tried it because I'm not really a gamer and the few games I use are the typical free ones that come with Debian and some emulators that, honestly, already worked fine with the old PC.

  


  However there is one task that brings me head over heels for its terrible performance : video screen capture.

  


  With my old PC I was able to capture at over 60 fps at full screen while doing any task I needed to record.

  


  Even with my lenovo thinkpad x230 I am able to capture screen at over 80fps with total fluency.

  


  The command I have always used is :

  


  ffmpeg  -f x11grab -draw_mouse 1 -framerate 60 -video_size 1920x1200 -i :0.0+1680,0  -qscale 0 -pix_fmt yuv420p -c:v libx264 -preset medium -qp 0 -q:v 1 -s 1920x1200 -f matroska -threads 4 video.mkv


  


  notes :

  


  -video_size 1920x1200 -i :0.0+1680,0 y -s 1920x1200 are the dimensions and position of the region to capture (my right monitor).

  


  Notice that I even used -preset medium and software encoding, so I got very good quality even with that parameter setting and without ever going below 60 fps.

  


  What happens to me now ?

  


  The equipment is unable to capture more than 20 fps which makes any video invalid, with frame drops and not even reach 30fps, which would be the minimum required.

  


  In addition, it is quite noticeable the decrease in responsiveness of the PC as soon as I launch the command. That is, all that fluidity and smoothness that is appreciated when working normally, disappears and even moving a window from one side to another is rough and stumbling.

  


  I have tried with different parameters of ffmpeg, to capture raw, without encoding.

  


  I have tried saving the resulting video directly to RAM disk in order to avoid the possible bottleneck of writing to disk. It doesn't affect it at all.

  


  So, does anyone have any suggestions as to at least where I can dig further to find a solution to the problem ?

  


  Additional data, in case it helps :

  


  $ → inxi
CPU: 12-Core Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3 (-MT MCP-)
speed/min/max: 1201/1200/3300 MHz Kernel: 5.10.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 x86_64
Up: 1d 6h 55m Mem: 6427.6/32012.4 MiB (20.1%)
Storage: 13.76 TiB (55.9% used) Procs: 433 Shell: bash 5.0.18 inxi: 3.0.32


$ → ffmpeg -v
ffmpeg version 4.1.6 Copyright (c) 2000-2020 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 8 (Debian 8.3.0-6)
  configuration: --disable-decoder=amrnb --disable-decoder=libopenjpeg --disable-libopencv --disable-outdev=sdl2 --disable-podpages --disable-sndio --disable-stripping --enable-libaom --enable-avfilter --enable-avresample --enable-gcrypt --disable-gnutls --enable-openssl --enable-gpl --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libbs2b --enable-libcaca --enable-libcdio --enable-libcodec2 --enable-libfdk-aac --enable-libfontconfig --enable-libfreetype --enable-libfribidi --enable-libgme --enable-libgsm --enable-libilbc --enable-libkvazaar --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenh264 --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopenmpt --enable-libopus --enable-libpulse --enable-librubberband --enable-libshine --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libtesseract --enable-libtheora --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx265 --enable-libzimg --enable-libxvid --enable-libzvbi --enable-nonfree --enable-opencl --enable-opengl --enable-postproc --enable-pthreads --enable-shared --enable-version3 --enable-libwebp --incdir=/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --toolchain=hardened --enable-frei0r --enable-chromaprint --enable-libx264 --enable-libiec61883 --enable-libdc1394 --enable-vaapi --enable-libmfx --enable-libvmaf --disable-altivec --shlibdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
  libavutil      56. 22.100 / 56. 22.100
  libavcodec     58. 35.100 / 58. 35.100
  libavformat    58. 20.100 / 58. 20.100
  libavdevice    58.  5.100 / 58.  5.100
  libavfilter     7. 40.101 /  7. 40.101
  libavresample   4.  0.  0 /  4.  0.  0
  libswscale      5.  3.100 /  5.  3.100
  libswresample   3.  3.100 /  3.  3.100
  libpostproc    55.  3.100 / 55.  3.100


  


  I have the free amdgpu drivers (not amdgpu-pro), but I activated OpenCL just in case.

  


  I followed this tutorial.

  


  $ → glxinfo | grep OpenGL
OpenGL vendor string: AMD
OpenGL renderer string: Radeon RX550/550 Series (POLARIS12, DRM 3.40.0, 5.10.0-0.bpo.4-amd64, LLVM 11.0.1)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 20.3.4
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.60
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 20.3.4
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.60
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL profile mask: compatibility profile
OpenGL extensions:
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.2 Mesa 20.3.4
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.20
OpenGL ES profile extensions:





$ → clinfo
Number of platforms                               1
  Platform Name                                   Clover
  Platform Vendor                                 Mesa
  Platform Version                                OpenCL 1.1 Mesa 20.3.4
  Platform Profile                                FULL_PROFILE
  Platform Extensions                             cl_khr_icd
  Platform Extensions function suffix             MESA

  Platform Name                                   Clover
Number of devices                                 1
  Device Name                                     Radeon RX550/550 Series (POLARIS12, DRM 3.40.0, 5.10.0-0.bpo.4-amd64, LLVM 11.0.1)
  Device Vendor                                   AMD
  Device Vendor ID                                0x1002
  Device Version                                  OpenCL 1.1 Mesa 20.3.4
  Driver Version                                  20.3.4
  Device OpenCL C Version                         OpenCL C 1.1
  Device Type                                     GPU
  Device Profile                                  FULL_PROFILE
  Device Available                                Yes
  Compiler Available                              Yes
  Max compute units                               8
  Max clock frequency                             1183MHz
  Max work item dimensions                        3
  Max work item sizes                             256x256x256
  Max work group size                             256
  Preferred work group size multiple              64
  Preferred / native vector sizes
    char                                                16 / 16
    short                                                8 / 8
    int                                                  4 / 4
    long                                                 2 / 2
    half                                                 0 / 0        (n/a)
    float                                                4 / 4
    double                                               2 / 2        (cl_khr_fp64)
  Half-precision Floating-point support           (n/a)
  Single-precision Floating-point support         (core)
    Denormals                                     No
    Infinity and NANs                             Yes
    Round to nearest                              Yes
    Round to zero                                 No
    Round to infinity                             No
    IEEE754-2008 fused multiply-add               No
    Support is emulated in software               No
    Correctly-rounded divide and sqrt operations  No
  Double-precision Floating-point support         (cl_khr_fp64)
    Denormals                                     Yes
    Infinity and NANs                             Yes
    Round to nearest                              Yes
    Round to zero                                 Yes
    Round to infinity                             Yes
    IEEE754-2008 fused multiply-add               Yes
    Support is emulated in software               No
  Address bits                                    64, Little-Endian
  Global memory size                              3221225472 (3GiB)
  Error Correction support                        No
  Max memory allocation                           1717986918 (1.6GiB)
  Unified memory for Host and Device              No
  Minimum alignment for any data type             128 bytes
  Alignment of base address                       32768 bits (4096 bytes)
  Global Memory cache type                        None
  Image support                                   No
  Local memory type                               Local
  Local memory size                               32768 (32KiB)
  Max number of constant args                     16
  Max constant buffer size                        67108864 (64MiB)
  Max size of kernel argument                     1024
  Queue properties
    Out-of-order execution                        No
    Profiling                                     Yes
  Profiling timer resolution                      0ns
  Execution capabilities
    Run OpenCL kernels                            Yes
    Run native kernels                            No
  Device Extensions cl_khr_byte_addressable_store cl_khr_global_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_global_int32_extended_atomics cl_khr_local_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_local_int32_extended_atomics cl_khr_int64_base_atomics cl_khr_int64_extended_atomics cl_khr_fp64

NULL platform behavior
  clGetPlatformInfo(NULL, CL_PLATFORM_NAME, ...)  Clover
  clGetDeviceIDs(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_ALL, ...)   Success [MESA]
  clCreateContext(NULL, ...) [default]            Success [MESA]
  clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_DEFAULT)  Success (1)
    Platform Name                                 Clover
    Device Name                                   Radeon RX550/550 Series (POLARIS12, DRM 3.40.0, 5.10.0-0.bpo.4-amd64, LLVM 11.0.1)
  clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_CPU)  No devices found in platform
  clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_GPU)  Success (1)
    Platform Name                                 Clover
    Device Name                                   Radeon RX550/550 Series (POLARIS12, DRM 3.40.0, 5.10.0-0.bpo.4-amd64, LLVM 11.0.1)
  clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_ACCELERATOR)  No devices found in platform
  clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_CUSTOM)  No devices found in platform
  clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_ALL)  Success (1)
    Platform Name                                 Clover
    Device Name                                   Radeon RX550/550 Series (POLARIS12, DRM 3.40.0, 5.10.0-0.bpo.4-amd64, LLVM 11.0.1)

ICD loader properties
  ICD loader Name                                 OpenCL ICD Loader
  ICD loader Vendor                               OCL Icd free software
  ICD loader Version                              2.2.12
  ICD loader Profile                              OpenCL 2.2


  


  This would not be a tearing problem, as no tearing is visible when playing videos and the TearFree driver policy is enabled.

  


  $ → xrandr --verbose | grep TearFree
    TearFree: on
    TearFree: on
    TearFree: on


  


• Vedanti and Max Sound vs. Google

  14 août 2014, par Multimedia Mike — Legal/Ethical

  Vedanti Systems Limited (VSL) and Max Sound Coporation filed a lawsuit against Google recently. Ordinarily, I wouldn’t care about corporate legal battles. However, this one interests me because it’s multimedia-related. I’m curious to know how coding technology patents might hold up in a real court case.

  Here’s the most entertaining complaint in the lawsuit :

  Despite Google’s well-publicized Code of Conduct — “Don’t be Evil” — which it explains is “about doing the right thing,” “following the law,” and “acting honorably,” Google, in fact, has an established pattern of conduct which is the exact opposite of its claimed piety.

  I wonder if this is the first known case in which Google has been sued over its long-obsoleted “Don’t be evil” mantra ?

  Researching The Plaintiffs
  
  I think I made a mistake by assuming this lawsuit might have merit. My first order of business was to see what the plaintiff organizations have produced. I have a strong feeling that these might be run of the mill patent trolls.

  VSL currently has a blank web page. Further, the Wayback Machine only has pages reaching back to 2011. The earliest page lists these claims against a plain black background (I’ve highlighted some of the more boisterous claims and the passages that make it appear that Vedanti doesn’t actually produce anything but is strictly an IP organization) :

  The inventions key :
  The patent and software reduced any data content, without compressing, up to a 97% total reduction of the data which also produces a lossless result. This physics based invention is often called the Holy Grail.

  Vedanti Systems Intellectual Property
  Our strategic IP portfolio is granted in all of the world’s largest technology development and use countries. A major value indemnification of our licensee products is the early date of invention filing and subsequent Issue. Vedanti IP has an intrinsic 20 year patent protection and valuation in royalties and licensing. The original data transmission art has no prior art against it.

  Vedanti Systems invented among other firsts, The Slice and Partitioning of Macroblocks within a RGB Tri level region in a frame to select or not, the pixel.

  Vedanti Systems invention is used in nearly every wireless chipset and handset in the world

  Our original pixel selection system revolutionized wireless handset communications. An example of this system “Slice” and “Macroblock Partitioning” is used throughout Satellite channel expansion, Wireless partitioning, Telecom – Video Conferencing, Surveillance Cameras, and 2010 developing Media applications.

  Vedanti Systems is a Semiconductor based software, applications, and IP Continuations Intellectual Property company.

  Let’s move onto the other plaintiff, Max Sound. They have a significantly more substantive website. They also have an Android app named Spins HD Audio, which appears to be little more than a music player based on the screenshots.

  Max Sound also has a stock ticker symbol : MAXD. Something clicked into place when I looked up their ticker symbol : While worth only a few pennies, it was worth a few more pennies after this lawsuit was announced, which might be one of the motivations behind the lawsuit.

  Here’s a trick I learned when I was looking for a new tech job last year : When I first look at a company’s website and am trying to figure out what they really do, I head straight to their jobs/careers page. A lot of corporate websites have way too much blathering corporatese that can be tough to cut through. But when I see what mix of talent and specific skills they are hoping to hire, that gives me a much better portrait of what the company does.

  The reason I bring this up is because this tech company doesn’t seem to have jobs/careers page.

  The Lawsuit
  The core complaint centers around Patent 7974339 : Optimized data transmission system and method. It was filed in July 2004 (or possibly as early as January 2002), issued in July 2011, and assigned (purchased ?) by Vedanti in May 2012. The lawsuit alleges that nearly everything Google has ever produced (or, more accurately, purchased) leverages the patented technology.

  The patent itself has 5 drawings. If you’ve ever seen a multimedia codec patent, or any whitepaper on a multimedia codec, you’ve seen these graphs before. E.g., “Raw pixels come in here -> some analysis happens here -> more analysis happens over here -> entropy coding -> final bitstream”. The text of a patent document isn’t meant to be particularly useful. I’ve tried to understand this stuff before and it never goes well. Skimming the text, I just see a blur of the words data, transmission, pixel, and matrix.

  So I read the complaint to try to figure out what this is all about. To summarize the storyline as narrated by the lawsuit, some inventors were unhappy with the state of video compression in 2001 and endeavored to create something better. So they did, and called it the VSL codec. This codec is so far undocumented on the MultimediaWiki, so it probably has yet to be seen “in the wild”. Good luck finding hard technical data on it now since searches for “VSL codec” are overwhelmed by articles about this lawsuit. Also, the original codec probably wasn’t called VSL because VSL is apparently an IP organization formed much later.

  Then, the protagonists of the lawsuit patented the codec. Then, years later, Google wanted to purchase a video codec that they could open source and use to supplant H.264.

  The complaint goes on to allege that in 2010, Google specifically contacted VSL to possibly license or acquire this mysterious VSL technology. Google was allegedly allowed to study the technology, eventually decided not to continue discussions, and shipped back the proprietary materials.

  Here’s where things get weird. When Google shipped back the materials, they allegedly shipped back a bunch of Post-It notes. The notes are alleged to contain a ton of incriminating evidence. The lawsuit claims that the notes contained such tidbits as :

  • Google was concerned that its infringement could be considered “recklessness” (the standard applicable to willful infringement) ;
  • Google personnel should “try” to destroy incriminating emails ;
  • Google should consider a “design around” because it was facing a “risk of litigation.”

  Actually, given Google’s acquisition of On2, I can totally believe that last one (On2’s codecs have famously contained a lot of weirdness which is commonly suspected to be attributable to designing around known patents).

  Anyway, a lot of this case seems to hinge on the authenticity of these Post-It notes :

  “65. The Post-It notes are unequivocal evidence of Google’s knowledge of the ’339 Patent and infringement by Defendants”

  I wish I could find a stock photo of a stack of Post-It notes in an evidence bag.

  I’ve worked at big technology companies. Big tech companies these days are very diligent about indoctrinating employees about IP liability issues. The reason this Post-It situation strikes me as odd is because the alleged contents of the notes basically outline everything the corporate lawyers tell you NOT to do.

  Analysis
  I’m trying to determine what specific algorithms and coding techniques. I guess I was expecting to see a specific claim that, “Our patent outlines this specific coding technique and here is unequivocal proof that Google A) uses the same technique, and B) specifically did so after looking at our patent.” I didn’t find that (well, a bit of part B, c.f., the Post-It note debacle), but maybe that’s not how these patent lawsuits operate. I’ve never kept up before.

  Maybe it’s just a patent troll. Maybe it’s for the stock bump. I’m expecting to see pump-n-dump stock spam featuring the stock symbol MAXD anytime now.

  I’ve never been interested in following a lawsuit case carefully before. I suddenly find myself wondering if I can subscribe to the RSS feed for this case ? Too much to hope for. But I found this item through Pando and maybe they’ll stay on top of it.

• ffmpeg concatenation after using drawtext filter

  12 août 2016, par Sven Hoskens

  I’m fairly new to ffmpeg, but after a few days of searching on this issue, I’ve completely hit a brick wall. Any help would be appreciated.

  My use case : Our client wants to upload videos for multiple regions. Each video will be the same format, 1920x1080, mp4. For each region, they want to add a different image at the end of the video, for a few seconds. This image contains their logo, some additional info, and a variable code. They will enter this code alongside the uploaded video. The image stays the same, so is already present on the server.
  So basically, I have an input video, a video of an image, and a small code. I need to add this code to the video of the image (in a predefined position), and then I need to add the resulting video to the end of the input video. Once that is complete, I just need to output the video in 1920x1080 and in 1024x576.

  I have tried several things, but the concatenation step always fails with the manipulated video’s.

  Attempt 1

  In my first attempt, I used ffmpeg to create a video from an image, and add the text in the designated area.

  ffmpeg -y -f lavfi -i image.png -r 30 -t 10 -pix_fmt yuv420p -map 0:v -vf drawtext="fontfile=HelveticaNeue.dfont: text='GLNS/TEST/1234b': fontcolor=black: fontsize=20: box=1: boxcolor=white: boxborderw=7: x=179: y=805" imageVideo.mp4

  This command creates a .mp4 video of the correct size, with a duration of 10 seconds, and adds the text ’GLNS/TEST/1234b’ in the correct location.

  Next, I use the following command to concatenate the two videos. Both have the same resolution and codec.

  ffmpeg -f concat -safe 0 -i config.txt -vf scale=1920:1080 outputHD.mp4 -vf scale=1024:576 outputSD.mp4

  config.txt contains following :

  file my_input_file.mp4
  
  file ImageVideo.mp4

  This concatenation works with regular videos. However, when I use it with ImageVideo.mp4 (the one created by the first command) I get this error log :

  [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x7f86dc924600] Auto-inserting h264_mp4toannexb bitstream filtereed=0.509x    
  
  [aac @ 0x7f86dc019e00] Number of bands (31) exceeds limit (5).
  
  Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
  
  [aac @ 0x7f86dc019e00] Number of bands (27) exceeds limit (8).
  
  Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
  
  [h264 @ 0x7f86dd857200] Error splitting the input into NAL units.
  
  [h264 @ 0x7f86dd829400] Invalid NAL unit size.
  
  [h264 @ 0x7f86dd829400] Error splitting the input into NAL units.
  
  [aac @ 0x7f86dc019e00] Number of bands (10) exceeds limit (1).
  
  Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
  
  [h264 @ 0x7f86dd816800] Invalid NAL unit size.
  
  [h264 @ 0x7f86dd816800] Error splitting the input into NAL units.
  
  [aac @ 0x7f86dc019e00] Number of bands (24) exceeds limit (1).
  
  Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
  
  
  
  #this goes on for a few hundred lines

  The resulting output is identical to the input video, but does not contain the desired image video at the end.

  Attempt 2

  Since the above attempt didn’t work, I tried concatenating a video I let our designer make of the image with Adobe After Effects. This video was also saved as a .mp4 with the H264 codec. If I concatenate the input video and this one, I get a correct result. However, as soon as I add the code in the designated area with this command :

  ffmpeg -i new_image_video.mp4 -vf drawtext="fontfile=HelveticaNeue.dfont: text='GLNS/TEST/1234b': fontcolor=black: fontsize=20: box=1: boxcolor=white: boxborderw=7: x=179: y=805" -c:v libx264 imageVideo.mp4

  I get this error :

  [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x7ff94c800000] Auto-inserting h264_mp4toannexb bitstream filter97x    
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b053800] top block unavailable for requested intra mode -1
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b053800] error while decoding MB 0 0, bytestream 49526
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b053e00] number of reference frames (1+3) exceeds max (3; probably corrupt input), discarding one
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b053e00] chroma_log2_weight_denom 28 is out of range
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b053e00] illegal long ref in memory management control operation 2
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b053e00] cabac_init_idc 32 overflow
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b053e00] decode_slice_header error
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b053e00] no frame!
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b053800] concealing 8160 DC, 8160 AC, 8160 MV errors in I frame
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b072a00] reference overflow 22 > 15 or 0 > 15
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b072a00] decode_slice_header error
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b072a00] no frame!
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b01a400] illegal modification_of_pic_nums_idc 20
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b01a400] decode_slice_header error
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b01a400] no frame!
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b01aa00] illegal modification_of_pic_nums_idc 20
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b01aa00] decode_slice_header error
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b01aa00] no frame!
  
  Error while decoding stream #0:0: Invalid data found when processing input
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b053800] deblocking_filter_idc 8 out of range
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b053800] decode_slice_header error
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b053800] no frame!
  
  Error while decoding stream #0:0: Invalid data found when processing input
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b053e00] illegal memory management control operation 8
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b053e00] co located POCs unavailable
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b053e00] error while decoding MB 2 0, bytestream -35
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b053e00] concealing 8160 DC, 8160 AC, 8160 MV errors in B frame
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b072a00] number of reference frames (1+3) exceeds max (3; probably corrupt input), discarding one
  
  
  
  # this goes on for a while...
  
  
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b01a400] concealing 4962 DC, 4962 AC, 4962 MV errors in B frame
  
  Error while decoding stream #0:0: Invalid data found when processing input
  
  frame= 2553 fps= 17 q=-1.0 Lsize=   26995kB time=00:01:42.16 bitrate=2164.6kbits/s dup=0 drop=60 speed=0.697x    
  
  video:25258kB audio:1661kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead: 0.285236%
  
  [libx264 @ 0x7ff94b810400] frame I:35    Avg QP:17.45  size: 55070
  
  [libx264 @ 0x7ff94b810400] frame P:711   Avg QP:19.73  size: 18712
  
  [libx264 @ 0x7ff94b810400] frame B:1807  Avg QP:21.53  size:  5884
  
  [libx264 @ 0x7ff94b810400] consecutive B-frames:  3.4%  5.0%  4.9% 86.6%
  
  [libx264 @ 0x7ff94b810400] mb I  I16..4: 38.2% 49.3% 12.5%
  
  [libx264 @ 0x7ff94b810400] mb P  I16..4: 12.4% 14.0%  1.0%  P16..4: 29.6%  4.8%  1.9%  0.0%  0.0%    skip:36.2%
  
  [libx264 @ 0x7ff94b810400] mb B  I16..4:  1.5%  1.2%  0.1%  B16..8: 27.3%  1.6%  0.1%  direct: 1.8%  skip:66.4%  L0:45.8% L1:51.4% BI: 2.8%
  
  [libx264 @ 0x7ff94b810400] 8x8 transform intra:49.5% inter:85.4%
  
  [libx264 @ 0x7ff94b810400] coded y,uvDC,uvAC intra: 21.2% 22.3% 2.5% inter: 4.6% 7.0% 0.0%
  
  [libx264 @ 0x7ff94b810400] i16 v,h,dc,p: 23% 26% 10% 41%
  
  [libx264 @ 0x7ff94b810400] i8 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 31% 19% 35%  3%  3%  3%  3%  3%  2%
  
  [libx264 @ 0x7ff94b810400] i4 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 31% 20% 16%  5%  7%  6%  5%  5%  4%
  
  [libx264 @ 0x7ff94b810400] i8c dc,h,v,p: 67% 16% 15%  2%
  
  [libx264 @ 0x7ff94b810400] Weighted P-Frames: Y:7.3% UV:4.2%
  
  [libx264 @ 0x7ff94b810400] ref P L0: 66.3%  8.7% 17.9%  7.0%  0.1%
  
  [libx264 @ 0x7ff94b810400] ref B L0: 88.2% 10.1%  1.7%
  
  [libx264 @ 0x7ff94b810400] ref B L1: 94.9%  5.1%
  
  [libx264 @ 0x7ff94b810400] kb/s:2026.12
  
  [aac @ 0x7ff94b072400] Qavg: 635.626

  The resulting output is identical to the input video, but does not contain the desired image video at the end.

  One thing I have noticed : When I inspect the video files on mac (Get info) they always contain these lines at ’More info’ :

  Dimensions: 1920 x 1080
  
  Codecs: H.264, AAC
  
  Color profile: HD(1-1-1)
  
  Duration: 01:42
  
  Audio channels: 2
  
  Last opened: Today 11:02

  However, the video’s which pass through the drawtext filter have this :

  Dimensions: 1920 x 1080
  
  Codecs: AAC, H.264
  
  Duration: 00:10
  
  Audio channels: 2
  
  Last opened: Today 11:07

  As you can see, there is no color profile entry, and the codecs have switched places. I assume this is related to my issue, but I can’t seem to find a fix for it.

  PS : The application will run in a php environment (Symfony). I noticed the concat command wasn’t available in the Symfony bundle for ffmpeg, so I’m using the regular terminal commands. I’ll execute these using php.

  EDIT
  Attempt 3

  On advise of a coworker, I tried converting the video to .avi and reconverting to .mp4, in the hopes this would lose any corrupted or extra info included by the drawtext filter. This spits out a completely different error.

  [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x7f812413da00] Auto-inserting h264_mp4toannexb bitstream filtereed=0.516x    
  
  [concat @ 0x7f8124009a00] DTS 1569260 < 2551000 out of order
  
  [h264 @ 0x7f8124846800] left block unavailable for requested intra4x4 mode -1
  
  [h264 @ 0x7f8124846800] error while decoding MB 0 0, bytestream 47919
  
  [h264 @ 0x7f8124846800] concealing 8160 DC, 8160 AC, 8160 MV errors in I frame
  
  [aac @ 0x7f8125809a00] Queue input is backward in time
  
  [aac @ 0x7f8125815a00] Queue input is backward in time
  
  [h264 @ 0x7f8124846e00] number of reference frames (1+3) exceeds max (3; probably corrupt input), discarding one
  
  [h264 @ 0x7f8124846e00] chroma_log2_weight_denom 26 is out of range
  
  [h264 @ 0x7f8124846e00] deblocking_filter_idc 32 out of range
  
  [h264 @ 0x7f8124846e00] decode_slice_header error
  
  [h264 @ 0x7f8124846e00] no frame!
  
  [mp4 @ 0x7f8124802200] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:1; previous: 4902912, current: 4505491; changing to 4902913. This may result in incorrect timestamps in the output file.
  
  [mp4 @ 0x7f8125813000] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 1:1; previous: 4902912, current: 4505491; changing to 4902913. This may result in incorrect timestamps in the output file.
  
  [h264 @ 0x7f8124803400] reference overflow 20 > 15 or 0 > 15
  
  [h264 @ 0x7f8124803400] decode_slice_header error
  
  [h264 @ 0x7f8124803400] no frame!
  
  [mp4 @ 0x7f8124802200] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:1; previous: 4902913, current: 4506515; changing to 4902914. This may result in incorrect timestamps in the output file.
  
  [mp4 @ 0x7f8125813000] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 1:1; previous: 4902913, current: 4506515; changing to 4902914. This may result in incorrect timestamps in the output file.
  
  [mp4 @ 0x7f8124802200] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:1; previous: 4902914, current: 4507539; changing to 4902915. This may result in incorrect timestamps in the output file.
  
  [mp4 @ 0x7f8125813000] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 1:1; previous: 4902914, current: 4507539; changing to 4902915. This may result in incorrect timestamps in the output file.
  
  
  
  # Again, this continues for quite a while.