Using Mp4 preset, libx264 video encoder, aac audio encoder, and any preset, e.g. libx264-default.

Some sort of transcoding is taking place, but not with the right options. After transcoding, failure is reported and /tmp file disappears.

I ran ps -eF to see the FFmpeg command line. Neither -vcodec nor -vpre was in the command line; only /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -i INPUT /tmp/OUTPUT.mp4

transcoder also generates this error
Error set options PHPVideoToolkit Error: Value "libx264" set from $toolkit->setVideoCodec, can not be used to encode the output as the version of FFmpeg that you are using does not have the capability to encode video with this codec.

libx264 is listed in ffmpeg -codecs.

ffmpeg version N-38662-gbf807a5
built on Mar  8 2012 22:33:20 with gcc 4.5.2
configuration: --enable-shared --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-nonfree --enable-x11grab --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264 --extra-ldflags='-L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath /usr/local/lib'
libavutil      51. 42.100 / 51. 42.100
libavcodec     54. 10.100 / 54. 10.100
libavformat    54.  2.100 / 54.  2.100
libavdevice    53.  4.100 / 53.  4.100
libavfilter     2. 63.100 /  2. 63.100
libswscale      2.  1.100 /  2.  1.100
libswresample   0.  7.100 /  0.  7.100
libpostproc    52.  0.100 / 52.  0.100

Comments

Jorrit’s picture

The ffmpeg -i video.mp4-like call is used by the module to find the resolution of the video.

Please post the entire output of ffmpeg -codecs. Also, make sure that the Drupal module points to the right ffmpeg binary. I see that you've compiled one yourself, self-compiled binaries usually end up at /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg instead of the distribution-provided binary at /usr/bin/ffmpeg.

michael.k’s picture

I believe this issue is related to https://drupal.org/node/1468428 and https://drupal.org/node/1350170.

Do you get the same result if you change the drop down to "None" in admin/config/media/video/presets/preset/mp4 > Video settings > Video Preset?

Obviously, if your compile of FFmpeg has the necessary codes for mp4, you should be able to create a file by typing "ffmpeg -i example.mov example.mp4" in the command line, which would prove your copy is working properly. That error is misleading so if your copy works you should see a result with "none" selected for Video preset.

Regarding the location of FFmpeg, I think it lives in different directories depending on your flavor of Linux/Unix and personal preference. I compiled my own copy on CentOS 5, which lives at /usr/bin/ffmpeg, whereas my copy of x264 that was compiled at the same time lives at /usr/local/bin/x264:

# which ffmpeg
/usr/bin/ffmpeg
#
# which x264
/usr/local/bin/x264
#
# ffmpeg -i
ffmpeg version git-2012-02-19-04f7eee Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Feb 20 2012 15:16:07 with gcc 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-51)
...
htoipa’s picture

When I disabled codec validation everything works as expected. The command line now becomes reasonable and transcoding is successful.

sites/all/modules/video/libraries/phpvideotoolkit/phpvideotoolkit.php5.php:3608

  $this->_raiseError('setAudioFormat_cannnot_encode',
  array('codec' => $audio_codec));

and 1381:

  $this->_raiseError('setVideoFormat_cannnot_encode',
  array('codec' => $video_codec));

I'll try the "none" option when I get a chance.

ffmpeg -codecs

Codecs:
 D..... = Decoding supported
 .E.... = Encoding supported
 ..V... = Video codec
 ..A... = Audio codec
 ..S... = Subtitle codec
 ...S.. = Supports draw_horiz_band
 ....D. = Supports direct rendering method 1
 .....T = Supports weird frame truncation
 ------
 D V D  4xm             4X Movie
 D V D  8bps            QuickTime 8BPS video
 D A D  8svx_exp        8SVX exponential
 D A D  8svx_fib        8SVX fibonacci
  EV    a64multi        Multicolor charset for Commodore 64
  EV    a64multi5       Multicolor charset for Commodore 64, extended with 5th color (colram)
 DEA D  aac             Advanced Audio Coding
 D A D  aac_latm        AAC LATM (Advanced Audio Codec LATM syntax)
 D V D  aasc            Autodesk RLE
 DEA D  ac3             ATSC A/52A (AC-3)
  EA    ac3_fixed       ATSC A/52A (AC-3)
 D A D  adpcm_4xm       ADPCM 4X Movie
 DEA D  adpcm_adx       SEGA CRI ADX ADPCM
 D A D  adpcm_ct        ADPCM Creative Technology
 D A D  adpcm_ea        ADPCM Electronic Arts
 D A D  adpcm_ea_maxis_xa ADPCM Electronic Arts Maxis CDROM XA
 D A D  adpcm_ea_r1     ADPCM Electronic Arts R1
 D A D  adpcm_ea_r2     ADPCM Electronic Arts R2
 D A D  adpcm_ea_r3     ADPCM Electronic Arts R3
 D A D  adpcm_ea_xas    ADPCM Electronic Arts XAS
 D A D  adpcm_ima_amv   ADPCM IMA AMV
 D A D  adpcm_ima_apc   ADPCM IMA CRYO APC
 D A D  adpcm_ima_dk3   ADPCM IMA Duck DK3
 D A D  adpcm_ima_dk4   ADPCM IMA Duck DK4
 D A D  adpcm_ima_ea_eacs ADPCM IMA Electronic Arts EACS
 D A D  adpcm_ima_ea_sead ADPCM IMA Electronic Arts SEAD
 D A D  adpcm_ima_iss   ADPCM IMA Funcom ISS
 DEA D  adpcm_ima_qt    ADPCM IMA QuickTime
 D A D  adpcm_ima_smjpeg ADPCM IMA Loki SDL MJPEG
 DEA D  adpcm_ima_wav   ADPCM IMA WAV
 D A D  adpcm_ima_ws    ADPCM IMA Westwood
 DEA D  adpcm_ms        ADPCM Microsoft
 D A D  adpcm_sbpro_2   ADPCM Sound Blaster Pro 2-bit
 D A D  adpcm_sbpro_3   ADPCM Sound Blaster Pro 2.6-bit
 D A D  adpcm_sbpro_4   ADPCM Sound Blaster Pro 4-bit
 DEA D  adpcm_swf       ADPCM Shockwave Flash
 D A D  adpcm_thp       ADPCM Nintendo Gamecube THP
 D A D  adpcm_xa        ADPCM CDROM XA
 DEA D  adpcm_yamaha    ADPCM Yamaha
 DEA D  alac            ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec)
 D A D  als             MPEG-4 Audio Lossless Coding (ALS)
 D A D  amrnb           Adaptive Multi-Rate NarrowBand
 D A D  amrwb           Adaptive Multi-Rate WideBand
 DEV    amv             AMV Video
 D V D  anm             Deluxe Paint Animation
 D V D  ansi            ASCII/ANSI art
 D A D  ape             Monkey's Audio
 DES    ass             Advanced SubStation Alpha subtitle
 DEV D  asv1            ASUS V1
 DEV D  asv2            ASUS V2
 D A D  atrac1          Atrac 1 (Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding)
 D A D  atrac3          Atrac 3 (Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding 3)
 D V D  aura            Auravision AURA
 D V D  aura2           Auravision Aura 2
 DEV D  avrp            Avid 1:1 10-bit RGB Packer
 D V D  avs             AVS (Audio Video Standard) video
 DEV D  ayuv            Uncompressed packed MS 4:4:4:4
 D V D  bethsoftvid     Bethesda VID video
 D V D  bfi             Brute Force & Ignorance
 D A D  binkaudio_dct   Bink Audio (DCT)
 D A D  binkaudio_rdft  Bink Audio (RDFT)
 D V    binkvideo       Bink video
 D V D  bintext         Binary text
 DEV D  bmp             BMP image
 D A D  bmv_audio       Discworld II BMV audio
 D V    bmv_video       Discworld II BMV video
 D V D  c93             Interplay C93
 D V D  camstudio       CamStudio
 D V D  camtasia        TechSmith Screen Capture Codec
 D V D  cavs            Chinese AVS video (AVS1-P2, JiZhun profile)
 D V D  cdgraphics      CD Graphics video
 D V D  cdxl            Commodore CDXL video
 D V D  cinepak         Cinepak
 DEV D  cljr            Cirrus Logic AccuPak
 D A D  cook            COOK
 D V D  cyuv            Creative YUV (CYUV)
 DEA D  dca             DCA (DTS Coherent Acoustics)
 D V D  dfa             Chronomaster DFA
 D V    dirac           BBC Dirac VC-2
 DEV D  dnxhd           VC3/DNxHD
 DEV    dpx             DPX image
 D A D  dsicinaudio     Delphine Software International CIN audio
 D V D  dsicinvideo     Delphine Software International CIN video
 DES    dvbsub          DVB subtitles
 DES    dvdsub          DVD subtitles
 DEV D  dvvideo         DV (Digital Video)
 D V D  dxa             Feeble Files/ScummVM DXA
 D V D  dxtory          Dxtory
 DEA D  eac3            ATSC A/52 E-AC-3
 D V D  eacmv           Electronic Arts CMV video
 D V D  eamad           Electronic Arts Madcow Video
 D V D  eatgq           Electronic Arts TGQ video
 D V    eatgv           Electronic Arts TGV video
 D V D  eatqi           Electronic Arts TQI Video
 D V D  escape124       Escape 124
 D V D  escape130       Escape 130
 DEV D  ffv1            FFmpeg video codec #1
 DEVSD  ffvhuff         Huffyuv FFmpeg variant
 DEA D  flac            FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec)
 DEV D  flashsv         Flash Screen Video
 DEV D  flashsv2        Flash Screen Video Version 2
 D V D  flic            Autodesk Animator Flic video
 DEVSD  flv             Flash Video (FLV) / Sorenson Spark / Sorenson H.263
 D V D  fraps           Fraps
 D V D  frwu            Forward Uncompressed
 DEA D  g722            G.722 ADPCM
 DEA    g723_1          G.723.1
 DEA D  g726            G.726 ADPCM
 D A D  g729            G.729
 DEV D  gif             GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)
 D A D  gsm             GSM
 D A D  gsm_ms          GSM Microsoft variant
 DEV D  h261            H.261
 DEVSDT h263            H.263 / H.263-1996
 D VSD  h263i           Intel H.263
  EV    h263p           H.263+ / H.263-1998 / H.263 version 2
 D V D  h264            H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10
 D V D  h264_vdpau      H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10 (VDPAU acceleration)
 DEVSD  huffyuv         Huffyuv / HuffYUV
 D V D  idcinvideo      id Quake II CIN video
 D V D  idf             iCEDraw text
 D V D  iff_byterun1    IFF ByteRun1
 D V D  iff_ilbm        IFF ILBM
 D A D  imc             IMC (Intel Music Coder)
 D V D  indeo2          Intel Indeo 2
 D V    indeo3          Intel Indeo 3
 D V    indeo4          Intel Indeo Video Interactive 4
 D V    indeo5          Intel Indeo Video Interactive 5
 D A D  interplay_dpcm  DPCM Interplay
 D V D  interplayvideo  Interplay MVE video
 DEV    j2k             JPEG 2000
 DEV D  jpegls          JPEG-LS
 D V D  jv              Bitmap Brothers JV video
 D V    kgv1            Kega Game Video
 D V D  kmvc            Karl Morton's video codec
 D V D  lagarith        Lagarith lossless
  EA    libfaac         libfaac AAC (Advanced Audio Codec)
  EA    libmp3lame      libmp3lame MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3)
 DEA D  libopencore_amrnb OpenCORE Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR) Narrow-Band
 D A D  libopencore_amrwb OpenCORE Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR) Wide-Band
  EV    libtheora       libtheora Theora
  EA    libvorbis       libvorbis Vorbis
  EV    libx264         libx264 H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10
  EV    libx264rgb      libx264 H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10 RGB
  EV    ljpeg           Lossless JPEG
 D V D  loco            LOCO
 D A D  mace3           MACE (Macintosh Audio Compression/Expansion) 3:1
 D A D  mace6           MACE (Macintosh Audio Compression/Expansion) 6:1
 D V D  mdec            Sony PlayStation MDEC (Motion DECoder)
 D V D  mimic           Mimic
 DEV D  mjpeg           MJPEG (Motion JPEG)
 D V D  mjpegb          Apple MJPEG-B
 D A D  mlp             MLP (Meridian Lossless Packing)
 D V D  mmvideo         American Laser Games MM Video
 D V D  motionpixels    Motion Pixels video
 D A D  mp1             MP1 (MPEG audio layer 1)
 D A D  mp1float        MP1 (MPEG audio layer 1)
 DEA D  mp2             MP2 (MPEG audio layer 2)
 D A D  mp2float        MP2 (MPEG audio layer 2)
 D A D  mp3             MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3)
 D A D  mp3adu          ADU (Application Data Unit) MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3)
 D A D  mp3adufloat     ADU (Application Data Unit) MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3)
 D A D  mp3float        MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3)
 D A D  mp3on4          MP3onMP4
 D A D  mp3on4float     MP3onMP4
 D A D  mpc7            Musepack SV7
 D A D  mpc8            Musepack SV8
 DEVSDT mpeg1video      MPEG-1 video
 D V DT mpeg1video_vdpau MPEG-1 video (VDPAU acceleration)
 DEVSDT mpeg2video      MPEG-2 video
 DEVSDT mpeg4           MPEG-4 part 2
 D V DT mpeg4_vdpau     MPEG-4 part 2 (VDPAU)
 D VSDT mpegvideo       MPEG-1 video
 D V DT mpegvideo_vdpau MPEG-1/2 video (VDPAU acceleration)
 DEVSD  msmpeg4         MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 3
 D VSD  msmpeg4v1       MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 1
 DEVSD  msmpeg4v2       MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 2
 D V D  msrle           Microsoft RLE
 DEV D  msvideo1        Microsoft Video-1
 D V D  mszh            LCL (LossLess Codec Library) MSZH
 D V D  mxpeg           Mobotix MxPEG video
 DEA D  nellymoser      Nellymoser Asao
 D V D  nuv             NuppelVideo/RTJPEG
 DEV D  pam             PAM (Portable AnyMap) image
 DEV D  pbm             PBM (Portable BitMap) image
 DEA D  pcm_alaw        PCM A-law / G.711 A-law
 D A D  pcm_bluray      PCM signed 16|20|24-bit big-endian for Blu-ray media
 D A D  pcm_dvd         PCM signed 20|24-bit big-endian
 DEA D  pcm_f32be       PCM 32-bit floating point big-endian
 DEA D  pcm_f32le       PCM 32-bit floating point little-endian
 DEA D  pcm_f64be       PCM 64-bit floating point big-endian
 DEA D  pcm_f64le       PCM 64-bit floating point little-endian
 D A D  pcm_lxf         PCM signed 20-bit little-endian planar
 DEA D  pcm_mulaw       PCM mu-law / G.711 mu-law
 DEA D  pcm_s16be       PCM signed 16-bit big-endian
 DEA D  pcm_s16le       PCM signed 16-bit little-endian
 D A D  pcm_s16le_planar PCM 16-bit little-endian planar
 DEA D  pcm_s24be       PCM signed 24-bit big-endian
 DEA D  pcm_s24daud     PCM D-Cinema audio signed 24-bit
 DEA D  pcm_s24le       PCM signed 24-bit little-endian
 DEA D  pcm_s32be       PCM signed 32-bit big-endian
 DEA D  pcm_s32le       PCM signed 32-bit little-endian
 DEA D  pcm_s8          PCM signed 8-bit
 D A D  pcm_s8_planar   PCM signed 8-bit planar
 DEA D  pcm_u16be       PCM unsigned 16-bit big-endian
 DEA D  pcm_u16le       PCM unsigned 16-bit little-endian
 DEA D  pcm_u24be       PCM unsigned 24-bit big-endian
 DEA D  pcm_u24le       PCM unsigned 24-bit little-endian
 DEA D  pcm_u32be       PCM unsigned 32-bit big-endian
 DEA D  pcm_u32le       PCM unsigned 32-bit little-endian
 DEA D  pcm_u8          PCM unsigned 8-bit
 D A D  pcm_zork        PCM Zork
 DEV D  pcx             PC Paintbrush PCX image
 DEV D  pgm             PGM (Portable GrayMap) image
 DEV D  pgmyuv          PGMYUV (Portable GrayMap YUV) image
 D S    pgssub          HDMV Presentation Graphic Stream subtitles
 D V D  pictor          Pictor/PC Paint
 DEV D  png             PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image
 DEV D  ppm             PPM (Portable PixelMap) image
 DEV D  prores          Apple ProRes
  EV    prores_anatoliy Apple ProRes
  EV    prores_kostya   Apple ProRes (iCodec Pro)
 D V D  prores_lgpl     Apple ProRes (iCodec Pro)
 D V D  ptx             V.Flash PTX image
 D A D  qcelp           QCELP / PureVoice
 D A D  qdm2            QDesign Music Codec 2
 D V D  qdraw           Apple QuickDraw
 D V D  qpeg            Q-team QPEG
 DEV D  qtrle           QuickTime Animation (RLE) video
 DEV D  r10k            AJA Kona 10-bit RGB Codec
 DEV D  r210            Uncompressed RGB 10-bit
 DEV    rawvideo        raw video
 DEA D  real_144        RealAudio 1.0 (14.4K)
 D A D  real_288        RealAudio 2.0 (28.8K)
 D V D  rl2             RL2 video
 DEA D  roq_dpcm        id RoQ DPCM
 DEV D  roqvideo        id RoQ video
 D V D  rpza            QuickTime video (RPZA)
 DEV D  rv10            RealVideo 1.0
 DEV D  rv20            RealVideo 2.0
 D V D  rv30            RealVideo 3.0
 D V D  rv40            RealVideo 4.0
 D A D  s302m           SMPTE 302M
 DEV    sgi             SGI image
 D A D  shorten         Shorten
 D A D  sipr            RealAudio SIPR / ACELP.NET
 D A D  smackaud        Smacker audio
 D V D  smackvid        Smacker video
 D V D  smc             QuickTime Graphics (SMC)
 DEV D  snow            Snow
 D A D  sol_dpcm        DPCM Sol
 DEA    sonic           Sonic
  EA    sonicls         Sonic lossless
 D V D  sp5x            Sunplus JPEG (SP5X)
 DES    srt             SubRip subtitle
 DEV D  sunrast         Sun Rasterfile image
 DEV D  svq1            Sorenson Vector Quantizer 1 / Sorenson Video 1 / SVQ1
 D VSD  svq3            Sorenson Vector Quantizer 3 / Sorenson Video 3 / SVQ3
 DEV D  targa           Truevision Targa image
 D VSD  theora          Theora
 D V D  thp             Nintendo Gamecube THP video
 D V D  tiertexseqvideo Tiertex Limited SEQ video
 DEV D  tiff            TIFF image
 D V D  tmv             8088flex TMV
 D A D  truehd          TrueHD
 D V D  truemotion1     Duck TrueMotion 1.0
 D V D  truemotion2     Duck TrueMotion 2.0
 D A D  truespeech      DSP Group TrueSpeech
 D A D  tta             True Audio (TTA)
 D A D  twinvq          VQF TwinVQ
 D V D  txd             Renderware TXD (TeXture Dictionary) image
 D V D  ultimotion      IBM UltiMotion
 D V D  utvideo         Ut Video
 DEV D  v210            Uncompressed 4:2:2 10-bit
 D V D  v210x           Uncompressed 4:2:2 10-bit
 DEV D  v308            Uncompressed packed 4:4:4
 DEV D  v408            Uncompressed packed QT 4:4:4:4
 DEV D  v410            Uncompressed 4:4:4 10-bit
 D V    vb              Beam Software VB
 D V D  vble            VBLE Lossless Codec
 D V D  vc1             SMPTE VC-1
 D V D  vc1_vdpau       SMPTE VC-1 VDPAU
 D V D  vc1image        Windows Media Video 9 Image v2
 D V D  vcr1            ATI VCR1
 D A D  vmdaudio        Sierra VMD audio
 D V D  vmdvideo        Sierra VMD video
 D V D  vmnc            VMware Screen Codec / VMware Video
 DEA D  vorbis          Vorbis
 D VSD  vp3             On2 VP3
 D V D  vp5             On2 VP5
 D V D  vp6             On2 VP6
 D V D  vp6a            On2 VP6 (Flash version, with alpha channel)
 D V D  vp6f            On2 VP6 (Flash version)
 D V D  vp8             On2 VP8
 D V D  vqavideo        Westwood Studios VQA (Vector Quantized Animation) video
 D A D  wavesynth       Wave synthesis pseudo-codec
 D A D  wavpack         WavPack
 D A D  wmalossless     Windows Media Audio Lossless
 D A D  wmapro          Windows Media Audio 9 Professional
 DEA D  wmav1           Windows Media Audio 1
 DEA D  wmav2           Windows Media Audio 2
 D A D  wmavoice        Windows Media Audio Voice
 DEVSD  wmv1            Windows Media Video 7
 DEVSD  wmv2            Windows Media Video 8
 D V D  wmv3            Windows Media Video 9
 D V D  wmv3_vdpau      Windows Media Video 9 VDPAU
 D V D  wmv3image       Windows Media Video 9 Image
 D V D  wnv1            Winnov WNV1
 D A D  ws_snd1         Westwood Audio (SND1)
 D A D  xan_dpcm        DPCM Xan
 D V D  xan_wc3         Wing Commander III / Xan
 D V D  xan_wc4         Wing Commander IV / Xxan
 D V D  xbin            eXtended BINary text
 D V D  xl              Miro VideoXL
 DES    xsub            DivX subtitles (XSUB)
 DEV D  xwd             XWD (X Window Dump) image
 DEV D  y41p            Uncompressed YUV 4:1:1 12-bit
 D V    yop             Psygnosis YOP Video
 DEV D  yuv4            Uncompressed packed 4:2:0
 DEV D  zlib            LCL (LossLess Codec Library) ZLIB
 DEV D  zmbv            Zip Motion Blocks Video

Note, the names of encoders and decoders do not always match, so there are
several cases where the above table shows encoder only or decoder only entries
even though both encoding and decoding are supported. For example, the h263
decoder corresponds to the h263 and h263p encoders, for file formats it is even
worse.
Jorrit’s picture

Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

Is this problem still present in 7.x-2.5 or the latest 7.x-2.x-dev? If not, please close this issue.

Jorrit’s picture

Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (cannot reproduce)

I am going to close this issue because I have no information to continue the investigation. Please reopen if you have more information.