Not able to play the flv files cut by ffmpeg and generated by gStreamer

[Sebastian Dröge]

On Mo, 2014-04-21 at 21:06 -0700, rishi wrote:
> Hi,
>   I am generating the flv files using gstreamer which are working fine and i
> am able to play it using ffmpeg and vlc player. but when i cut the flv file
> using ffmpeg the cut files are not played in ffmpeg and vlc player.
> 
> The vlc player messages say "avcodec warning: cannot decode one frame (6030
> bytes)" and 
> ffmpeg messages say 
> [h264 @ 0x19f2e4a0] non-existing PPS 0 referenced
> [h264 @ 0x19f2e4a0] decode_slice_header error
> [h264 @ 0x19f2e4a0] no frame!
> [h264 @ 0x1a102000] non-existing PPS 0 referenced
> [h264 @ 0x1a102000] decode_slice_header error
> [...]

This means that the file was cut in a place where it shouldn't be cut.
The h264 stream is referencing frames and other data (PPS) that are in
the parts you cut away.

-- 
Sebastian Dröge, Centricular Ltd - http://www.centricular.com
Expertise, Straight from the Source
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