[FFmpeg-user] Save segmented and fragmented h264 to disk

[Roger Pack]

Do you get the same failure using testsrc for input?

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Mark Umansky <umansky at torcrobotics.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am currently recording video of the desktop using UScreenCapture set up
> as shown in
> http://nerdlogger.com/2011/11/03/stream-your-windows-desktop-using-ffmpeg/,
> that's all set up working fine. Running the ffmpeg static 64 bit build from
> 2014-09-28 (git-3edb9aa) in Windows 7 64bit
>
> I get playable fragmented mp4 (played in VLC) saving correctly with the
> following command:
>
> ffmpeg -f dshow -i video="UScreenCapture" -vcodec libx264 -r 25 -q 5
> -preset ultrafast -movflags frag_keyframe  C:\Users\user\Desktop\video.mp4
> -y
>
> I'd like to segment files by time, so I get X minute chunks of video that
> are all individually playable as well as preserving fragmentation in case
> of power loss (this will be running on a portable computer).
>
> When I run:
>
> ffmpeg -f dshow -i video="UScreenCapture"  -codec copy -map 0 -f segment
> -vcodec libx264 -q 5 -r 25 -preset ultrafast -movflags frag_keyframe
> -segment_time 10 -reset_timestamps 1 C:\Users\user\Desktop\Video_%04d.mp4 -y
>
> I cannot get the last file (the fragmented one) to play at all. (The
> segmented files before the last one are fine) The last file has data in it
> (filesize is non-zero) but VLC cannot open it. Ideally the fragmented file
> wouldn't require any additional processing later to turn it into a
> non-fragmented file that's playable.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
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