Lost video

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 21:56 +0000, Ian Davidson wrote:

> I'm still getting problems - sometimes when I use gst-launch, I also
> only get 1 second plus 2 frames of video.  I am not aware of any
> particular actions which cause it to work correctly or fail.  I
> modified my gst-launch to tee off the audio so that I could write 2
> files - 1 AVI with both audio and video and 1 WAV file.  I recorded
> for about 17 seconds and the WAV file came out as 3.1 MB while the AVI
> was 6.2 MB.  I was wondering whether the video content was actually
> getting written (but not properly linked) - but with those file sizes,
> I am prepared to believe that only 27 video frames were written to the
> file.
> 
> I would appreciate any help to track down what is going wrong.

I don't really have any ideas as to what might be wrong here, but have
you looked at the GST_DEBUG=avimux:6 log already, to see whether the
muxer drops frames, or uses the wrong duration or somesuch?

Cheers
 -Tim