This is probably due to my ffmpeg-noobness, but I'm wondering why when I do a test on a .mov file, the video codec isn't recognized. When I look at the data in Quicktime, I see that I'm using the H264 codec, but when I click the 'use' radio button next to the video, the video information is blank, though the audio info appears to populate just fine.

I was able to convert a .mp4 file successfully to .avi, so ffmpeg appears to be working.

Any thoughts would be much appreciated, thanks!

Chris

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Somebody-2 commented

I followed domidc's example here: http://drupal.org/node/667286. By always returning true in ffmpeg_wrapper_can_decode, I was able to get the .mov file encoded. My guess is that the .mov package is obfuscating the video file somehow.

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chrisshattuck commented

I accidentally posted the above comments from another user's account. This is actually the voice of chrisshattuck.

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arthurf commented

What is probably happening is that your version of FFmpeg's output when you do ffmpeg -formats is different than what the module currently checks for. Would you mind pasting the output of this command? You should get something like:

ffmpeg -formats
FFmpeg version CVS, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
Mac OSX universal build for ffmpegX
  configuration:  --enable-memalign-hack --enable-mp3lame --enable-gpl --disable-vhook --disable-ffplay --disable-ffserver --enable-a52 --enable-xvid --enable-faac --enable-faad --enable-amr_nb --enable-amr_wb --enable-pthreads --enable-x264 
  libavutil version: 49.0.0
  libavcodec version: 51.9.0
  libavformat version: 50.4.0
  built on Apr 15 2006 04:58:19, gcc: 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5250)
File formats:
  E 3g2             3gp2 format
  E 3gp             3gp format
 D  4xm             4X Technologies format
 D  RoQ             Id RoQ format
 D  aac             ADTS AAC
 DE ac3             raw ac3
  E adts            ADTS AAC
 DE aiff            Audio IFF
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markusbroman commented

Hi

I am having similar problems, and think it has to do with the version of ffmpeg. My version of ffmpeg wants the command: "ffmpeg -codecs" to return the codecs. When I look at the code it seems as if ffmpeg wrapper sends "ffmpeg -formats" to ffmpeg to get that same list with codecs.

Is there a patch avalible that solves this or would it be alrigh to alter the line 412 in ffmpeg_wrapper.module so that it sends "ffmpeg -codecs" instead of -formats?

edit: I noticed this is an issue regarding 6.x-1.x-dev. I am using 6.x-1.1-beta2, dont know if it makes a difference.

Thanks! // Markus Broman