[FFmpeg-user] Asking for help with filter chain concat troubles

2020-07-13 Thread wilken
Hello ffmpegs, I hope I have come to the right place. I've got a problem concatenating webcam videos through an automatically generated filter chain. The idea is to combine a series of webcam videos from a webconference, filling the gaps between webcam videos with still images. The still

[FFmpeg-user] Newb Help! Extracting pics from recovered video file/ or repair recovered video file

2020-07-13 Thread frank rizo
I Think I am doing this correct, but I get an error. I have recovered some videos from a mac that crashed and can’t be helped… they are .mov files and look like they have a lot of data in them. several gig on each one… I have tried several unpaid and paid programs that use and don’t use some

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Newb Help! Extracting pics from recovered video file/ or repair recovered video file

2020-07-13 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 7/13/20, frank rizo wrote: > I Think I am doing this correct, but I get an error. I have recovered some > videos from a mac that crashed and can’t be helped… they are .mov files and > look like they have a lot of data in them. several gig on each one… I have > tried several unpaid and paid

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Newb Help! Extracting pics from recovered video file/ or repair recovered video file

2020-07-13 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 7/13/20, frank rizo wrote: > I’m not that smart with all this, so, how do i find out that information? > with a working video from the same source? Yes, same settings from same source. > >> On Jul 13, 2020, at 1:06 PM, Paul B Mahol wrote: >> >> On 7/13/20, frank rizo wrote: >>> I Think I

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Newb Help! Extracting pics from recovered video file/ or repair recovered video file

2020-07-13 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 7/13/2020 10:20 AM, frank rizo wrote: I’m not that smart with all this, so, how do i find out that information? with a working video from the same source? ffprobe will report a lot of info about a video file; I find MediaInfo to be useful for that, too. With that, you -may- be able to tell

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Newb Help! Extracting pics from recovered video file/ or repair recovered video file

2020-07-13 Thread frank rizo
I’m not that smart with all this, so, how do i find out that information? with a working video from the same source? > On Jul 13, 2020, at 1:06 PM, Paul B Mahol wrote: > > On 7/13/20, frank rizo wrote: >> I Think I am doing this correct, but I get an error. I have recovered some >> videos

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Newb Help! Extracting pics from recovered video file/ or repair recovered video file

2020-07-13 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 7/13/2020 10:06 AM, Paul B Mahol wrote: This can be done only if we know which codec where stored in file. Yep. Data recovery is always uncertain, whether from a single file or from a hard drive- if you can't find some indicator of what's where, it's all just random data (this is why

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Newb Help! Extracting pics from recovered video file/ or repair recovered video file

2020-07-13 Thread frank rizo
Ok, so i found this…. ffprobe -v error -select_streams v:0 -show_entries stream=codec_name \ -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 video.mkv and i used it on a working video recorded from the same camera. it said rawvideo is this a codec? i tried the same command on the broken video, no

[FFmpeg-user] Causes of color bars?

2020-07-13 Thread Simon Roberts
Hi all, I've been working with a Decklink Quad HDMI card under Ubuntu 20.04. The kernel driver is loaded and the Blackmagic software "mediaexpress" displays the input signal perfectly. However, when I try to use ffplay, it seems like it knows which of the four channels on the card has a signal,

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Causes of color bars?

2020-07-13 Thread Simon
I think I have determined that as far as ffmpeg is concerned there is no input. I added the flag -color_bars false, which I believe tells ffmpeg not to display color bars in response to lost input. Sure enough, the color bars went away. I interpret this as telling me that there was no signal, as