Hello all, I've done numerous searches for a resolution but haven't been able to find anything and I've spent hours trying various command lines but to no luck. I'm hoping someone here might have an answer.
I have a TV Series that is English dialogue but with a few areas in each episode where the dialogue is Inuit and therefore needs subtitle translation to English. The translation was missing so I thought I would add it myself. I took full English subtitles and chopped them down to just the parts that need translating and have embedded them as a separate stream. Usually I just keep the subtitles as separate SRT files so adding them as a stream was more just to see how the command line works because I haven't tried it before. This process has been working flawlessly for five files which are AVC/AAC mp4s using the command line: ffmpeg -i inputfile.mp4 -i subfile.srt -metadata media_type="10" -metadata show="Show Name" -metadata season_number="1" -metadata title="Episode Title" -metadata episode_id="Episode 10" -metadata episode_sort="10" -c copy -c:s mov_text -metadata:s:s:0 language=eng outputfile.mp4 Then I came across a file which gave a string of these errors: [mp4 @ 00000000048cd760] Application provided duration: 2398896000 / timestamp: 2398896000 is out of range for mov/mp4 format [mp4 @ 00000000048cd760] pts has no value [mp4 @ 00000000048cd760] Application provided duration: 2405985999 / timestamp: 2407613000 is out of range for mov/mp4 format [mp4 @ 00000000048cd760] pts has no value [mp4 @ 00000000048cd760] Application provided duration: 2410156998 / timestamp: 2415371000 is out of range for mov/mp4 format [mp4 @ 00000000048cd760] pts has no value [mp4 @ 00000000048cd760] Application provided duration: 2422085997 / timestamp: 2429218000 is out of range for mov/mp4 format [mp4 @ 00000000048cd760] pts has no value [mp4 @ 00000000048cd760] Application provided duration: 2426422996 / timestamp: 2435307000 is out of range for mov/mp4 format In my research to find a solution I came across someone who had this error and it turned out they had one bad line in the subtitle where the end time was earlier than the start time. I had hope this was my problem but no such luck. I went through each line of the SRT file and it was fine. Fortunately there were only 40 lines so this didn't take long. What's interesting though is that I can embed the full SRT file with no problem (the entire file is 430 lines long). I ran a test where I split the SRT file in half. I could embed the first 215 lines fine and I could embed the last 215 lines fine. The particular translation comes near the end of the show and runs from about the 39:00 minute mark and goes until about 50:00 minutes. The show is 54:00 minutes long so I figured it was in the last 215 lines where the issue is so I started to narrow this file down. I took out everything after the last translation at the 50:00 minute mark and worked with everything before that and it embedded fine so I knew it wasn't anything beyond the last translation. I then started to remove sections prior to 39:00 minutes which is where I need it to start. I was able to get it down to translation at 34;00 minutes. If I remove one more line which puts it at about 38:00 minutes it starts throwing the PTS errors so there's something from about 38:00 minutes to 50:00 minutes that's funky with the video file. I started to go through the file almost millisecond by millisecond in a file editor and didn't find anything weird (example timecode is corrupt) so I'm at a loss as to what the problem is. Am I correct so assume the number after the error part " Application provided duration" (ex: 2398896000) is milliseconds? If so then if I have done my math correct isn't this 666 hours? If so obviously something is wrong there. I tried doing a timestamp reset but I was grasping at straws and fumbling around with: ffmpeg -i inputfile.mp4 -c:v mpeg4 -q:v 2 -reset_timestamps 1 outputfile.mp4 but this didn't work. Any help would be appreciated? Do I have to pull the file apart and remux it in hopes of resetting everything? Is there another solution? Let me know if you need more information (ex: console output, etc.) Thanks. Karen _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list [email protected] http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email [email protected] with subject "unsubscribe".
