I was transcoding a 25FPS progressive (frames only, no fields) content in hopes of using it for HLS with an iPhone. Despite providing the arguments "-g 15" the H.264 GOP sizes ranged from 20-50. Reproducible: Always
Please provide "emerge --info" output. Also run the command you are using from a terminal and post the output here
thoth@farafra ~ $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.10.3 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.5, glibc-2.12.2-r0, 2.6.37-gentoo-r4 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.37-gentoo-r4-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i3_CPU_530_@_2.93GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.2 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:00:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.1-r1, 3.1.3-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.4-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.25-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.8.3-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.5 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 sys-devel/make: 3.82 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.36.1 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.12.2 Repositories: gentoo x-portage ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/maven-bin-2.2/conf /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en_US" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/home/thoth/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d a52 aac acl alsa amd64 apache2 bash-completion berkdb browserplugin bzip2 bzlib cli cracklib crypt css cups cxx dbus divx4linux dri dv dvd dvdr edl emacs encode faac ffmpeg gdbm gif gpm iconv imap inkjar ipv6 jabber java jpeg jpeg2k junit ldap live mad maildir matroska mjpegi mmx mng modules mozsvg mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nls nojython nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp oss pam pcre perl png pppd python readline rtmp rtsp session sse sse2 ssl stream svg sysfs tcltk tcpd theora tiff transcode unicode upnp v4l vlm vorbis wmf wxwindows x264 xinerama xorg xv xvid yv12 zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="braindump flow karbon kexi kpresenter krita tables words" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_US" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev vga nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS VRM=1000000 VR=900000 i="$1"; shift o="$1"; shift tmp=/var/tmp/pantos-$$.mpeg tmp2=/var/tmp/pantos-$$.2.mpeg #kludge="-r 30000/1001" ffmpeg -i "$i" -pass 1 \ -vcodec libx264 \ -vpre slow_firstpass -vpre ipod640 \ -s 480x272 $kludge \ -bf 0 -g 15 -b $VR -maxrate $VRM -bufsize 1192000 \ -f mpegts "$o" || exit 1 ffmpeg -i "$i" -pass 2 \ -acodec libfaac -ab 64000 \ -vcodec libx264 \ -vpre slow -vpre ipod640 \ -s 480x272 $kludge \ -bf 0 -g 15 -b $VR -maxrate $VRM -bufsize 1192000 \ "$@" \ -f mpegts -y "$tmp"
seems to be fixed in 0.9, please reopen if not
