[FFmpeg-trac] #301(undetermined:open): Problems encoding stills to video after v.5 to v.7 upgrade

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#301: Problems encoding stills to video after  v.5 to v.7 upgrade
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Reporter:  Danoham          |       Owner:  michael
    Type:  defect           |      Status:  open
Priority:  normal           |   Component:  undetermined
 Version:  unspecified      |  Resolution:
Keywords:  encoding stills  |  Blocked By:
Blocking:                   |  Reproduced:  0
Analyzed:  0                |
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Comment (by Danoham):

 Replying to [comment:1 cehoyos]:

 Thank you for your help!
 I had my admin install v.8 and all is well.  Now to choose a format that
 will please the masses.
 Dan


 > Your jpgs produce a fine mpg for me with ffmpeg -i sxi_00%2d.jpg out.mpg
 and I get no decoding errors.
 >
 > Please test a supported version of FFmpeg, that is either latest git
 (preferred) or 0.7.1 (the version you tested is much older) or 0.8.
 > Please try to avoid --extra-cflags if compilation succeeds without them,
 if you believe some of them make sense, please report so they can be added
 automatically.
 >
 > (Irrelevant stack alignment warning cut.)
 > {{{
 > $ ffmpeg -i sxi_00%2d.jpg out.mpg
 > ffmpeg version N-30996-gf925b24, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg
 developers
 >   built on Jun 24 2011 22:26:42 with gcc 2.95.3 20010315 (release)
 >   configuration: --cc=/usr/local/gcc-2.95.3/bin/gcc --disable-sse
 >   libavutil    51. 10. 0 / 51. 10. 0
 >   libavcodec   53.  7. 0 / 53.  7. 0
 >   libavformat  53.  4. 0 / 53.  4. 0
 >   libavdevice  53.  1. 1 / 53.  1. 1
 >   libavfilter   2. 23. 0 /  2. 23. 0
 >   libswscale    2.  0. 0 /  2.  0. 0
 >   Duration: 00:00:02.12, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
 >     Stream #0.0: Video: mjpeg, yuvj420p, 720x864 [PAR 1:1 DAR 5:6], 25
 fps, 25 tbr, 25 tbn, 25 tbc
 > Incompatible pixel format 'yuvj420p' for codec 'mpeg1video', auto-
 selecting format 'yuv420p'
 > [buffer @ 0x8c882f0] w:720 h:864 pixfmt:yuvj420p tb:1/1000000 sar:1/1
 sws_param:
 > [buffersink @ 0x8c856c0] auto-inserting filter 'auto-inserted scaler 0'
 between the filter 'src' and the filter 'out'
 > [scale @ 0x8c87a60] w:720 h:864 fmt:yuvj420p -> w:720 h:864 fmt:yuv420p
 flags:0x4
 > [mpeg @ 0x8c80e70] VBV buffer size not set, muxing may fail
 > Output #0, mpeg, to 'out.mpg':
 >   Metadata:
 >     encoder         : Lavf53.4.0
 >     Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg1video, yuv420p, 720x864 [PAR 1:1 DAR 5:6],
 q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 90k tbn, 25 tbc
 > Stream mapping:
 >   Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
 > Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
 > frame=   53 fps=  0 q=31.0 Lsize=     394kB time=00:00:02.08
 bitrate=1551.8kbits/s
 > video:390kB audio:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 0.952586%
 > }}}
 >
 > (I did not test x264 output, but I assume some defaults changed if the
 quality seems worse to you compared to older versions of FFmpeg and x264.)

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