The following table shows the metadata keys that FFmpeg honors when muxing a QuickTime file. This page documents which keys FFmpeg will encode into which formats. Many formats only support a handful of metadata keys. Whether the metadata key/value pairs are actually encoded into the output file is dependent upon the file format being muxed.

The option is -metadata and is used as such:įfmpeg -i inputfile -metadata title='Movie Title' -metadata year='2010' outputfile Any ideas? Perhaps if I could provide this information I could still salvage the file.FFmpeg has a free-form command line option that allows the user to specify key/value pairs for encoding metadata.

I know the pixel_format is yuv420p, is there any way to edit this file or 'inject' that information? Using the switch -pixel_format yuv420p either before the input -i or after won't work either, ffmpeg says Option pixel_format not found.

Could not find codec parameters for stream 0 (Video: h264 (avc1 / 0x31637661), none, 1920x1080): unspecified pixel formatĬonsider increasing the value for the 'analyzeduration' and 'probesize' options I believe the camera wrote a partially corrupt file that is missing the pixel format in its header metadata, check ffprobe's output for this file: $ ffprobe DJI_0090.MOVįfprobe version 3.3.3 Copyright (c) 2007-2017 the FFmpeg developersīuilt with Apple LLVM version 8.1.0 (clang-802.0.42)Ĭonfiguration: -prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/3.3.3 -enable-shared -enable-pthreads -enable-gpl -enable-version3 -enable-hardcoded-tables -enable-avresample -cc=clang -host-cflags= -host-ldflags= -disable-indev=qtkit -enable-ffplay -enable-libfdk-aac -enable-libmp3lame -enable-libsoxr -enable-libvpx -enable-libx264 -enable-libx265 -enable-libxvid -enable-libzimg -enable-opencl -disable-lzma -enable-libopenjpeg -disable-decoder=jpeg2000 -extra-cflags=-I/usr/local/Cellar/openjpeg/2.1.2_1/include/openjpeg-2.1 -enable-nonfree -enable-vda I have a video file here that is unplayable anywhere.

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