Support for Drupal 7 is ending on 5 January 2025—it’s time to migrate to Drupal 10! Learn about the many benefits of Drupal 10 and find migration tools in our resource center.Video transcoding works well for me for all video extensions except .avi - I get a PHPVideoToolkit error:
Execute error. It was not possible to encode "sites/default/files/video.avi" as FFmpeg returned an error. The error is with the video codec of the input file. FFmpeg reports the error to be "Error while opening encoder for output stream #0:0 - maybe incorrect parameters such as bit_rate, rate, width or height".
Ffmpeg version is '2.8-static' and a transcoder command has such options:
/%path_to_ffmpeg%/ffmpeg -i '/%path_to_origin_file%/video.avi' -vf 'scale=960:720' -strict experimental -vcodec 'h264' -qscale '12' -acodec 'aac' -vprofile 'baseline' -ac '2' -ar '44100' -y /tmp/transcoded_file.mp4
And I've found that issue is in '-vprofile' parameter. If replace -vprofile 'baseline' with -f 'h264' then a transcoding became working well for all video extensions. Possible it's related with a ffmpeg version.
Here is a patch which change a transcoder command for h264 profile option.
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| #2 | video_transcoders_ffmpeg_h264_profile-2665222-2.patch | 690 bytes | dmytro-aragorn |
| video_transcoders_ffmpeg_h264_profile.patch | 687 bytes | dmytro-aragorn | |
Comments
Comment #2
dmytro-aragornI've found that a transcoded video with
-f 'h264'param isn't playable in native Safari and IE. If remove a transcoder command for 'h264_profile' option then a transcoded video became playing correctly in all browsers. Not sure if it's a correct solution but it solve all transcoder and playing video troubles for meComment #3
heshanlk