Bug 89930 – using the h263-encoder from ffmpeg it crashes when encoding a frame

• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Malte Böhme 2005-04-21 07:33:08 UTC]

im developing a video-conference-app which uses h263 as the video-codec.
since i have upgraded from 0.4.7 to0.4.9_p20050226-r3 i cant encode h263 frames anymore. i get a message on the console that the h263-encoder has a invalid timestamp.after that my app segfaults.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20050226-r3
2.compile and run konference (http://developer.berlios.de/projects/konference)

Actual Results:  
see details. 

Expected Results:  
see details.  

emerge info:  
Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130,  
glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 i686)  
=================================================================  
System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+  
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16  
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb  9 2005,  
00:42:49)]  
distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632)  
[enabled]  
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4-r1  
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13  
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4  
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r7  
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.14  
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r2  
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"  
AUTOCLEAN="yes"  
CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=athlon-xp -funroll-loops -pipe"  
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"  
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"  
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"  
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=athlon-xp -funroll-loops -pipe"  
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"  
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks sandbox sfperms  
strict"  
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/pub/linux/gentoo  
ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/"  
LANG="de_DE@euro"  
MAKEOPTS="-j4"  
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"  
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"  
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"  
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"  
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"  
USE="x86 3dnow X acpi acpi4linux alsa apm arts audiofile avi berkdb  
bitmap-fonts cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl dga emboss encode esd fam fbcon  
flac flash foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6  
java jpeg junit kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mp3 mpeg mysql  
ncurses nls ogg oggvorbisopengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime  
readline samba sdl slang speex spell sse ssl subversion svga tcltk tcpd tetex  
theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xine xml2 xmms xv zlib"  
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

[Comment 1 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2005-04-22 19:10:26 UTC]

It's not a critical, but yet major as -r3 is marked stable for three archs.

[Comment 2 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2005-05-06 17:03:28 UTC]

Can you try -r5 if it works?
A new snapshot is probably on the way with improved h263 support.

[Comment 3 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2005-08-04 09:57:28 UTC]

Please reopen if still an issue.