[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] libavformat/dashenc: Reduce confusion in par error message

Chris Miceli chris at miceli.net.au
Mon Aug 31 07:16:39 EEST 2020


In ticket #8754 there is discourse surrounding the error
message which is printed upon a mismatched aspect ratio in
derived encodings. This should make it clearer to the user
as to the issues which they are experiencing.
---
 libavformat/dashenc.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/libavformat/dashenc.c b/libavformat/dashenc.c
index dc3306a56a..2d757b3a87 100644
--- a/libavformat/dashenc.c
+++ b/libavformat/dashenc.c
@@ -1686,7 +1686,7 @@ static int dash_init(AVFormatContext *s)
                       1024 * 1024);
 
             if (as->par.num && av_cmp_q(par, as->par)) {
-                av_log(s, AV_LOG_ERROR, "Conflicting stream par values in Adaptation Set %d\n", os->as_idx);
+                av_log(s, AV_LOG_ERROR, "Conflicting stream aspect ratios values in Adaptation Set %d. Please ensure all adaptation sets have the same aspect ratio\n", os->as_idx);
                 return AVERROR(EINVAL);
             }
             as->par = par;
-- 
2.28.0



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