[FFmpeg-devel] problems with libav* creating corrupt files

[Ronald S. Bultje]

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Brian C. Dilley <brian at flipagram.com>wrote:

>     I've built a simple program for encoding h264 video into an mp4
> container using the libav* libraries from ffmpeg on Android. Everything
> runs and seems to work just fine - there are no errors returned from any of
> the functions for the entire process.  The resulting file is not playable
> on the device or in anything other than mplayer (and probably other
> forgiving players) and I'm having trouble figuring out why.  I've attached
> a sample video for reference.
>
>     Thanks!
>
> PS: I sent this email already once but it got held back because i attached
> the sample. Here's a link to the sample:
>
> http://d.pr/v/gXmw


Didn't check sample, but most common reason for this is that you didn't
write global headers (search for CODEC_FLAG_GLOBAL_HEADERS in our source
tree).

Ronald