Hi all,

In order to transfer video data I need to convert source videos to uncompressed dv video and generate an avi file. I had a try with ffmpeg which does the conversion but I get a corrupted video file at the end

Has anyone some experience with that and could help me please?

I attached a shell log file where you can see what ffmpeg does.

Regards

Christoph

try this: ffmpeg -i sourcevideo -f dv drainvideo
or: ffmpeg -i sourcevideo drainvideo.dv

@ pegasos-sigi2

I tried your suggestion but this gives an error back


Ram Disk:> System:MPlayer/ffmpeg/ffmpeg -i P3-AV:1/123.avi "Ram Disk:456.dv"
ffmpeg version 0.4.9-pre1, build 4718, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
built on Mar 5 2006 22:17:57, gcc: 2.95.4 20040701 (experimental/emm-zapek-cisc-morgoth)
Input #0, avi, from 'P3-AV:1/123.avi':
Duration: 00:00:05.8, bitrate: 95605 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Video: msmpeg4v2, 720x576, 25.00 fps
Output #0, dv, to 'Ram Disk:456.dv':
Stream #0.0: Video: dvvideo, 720x576, 25.00 fps, q=2-31, 200 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
[dv @ 0x22842340]Can't initialize DV format!
Make sure that you supply exactly two streams:
video: 25fps or 29.97fps, audio: 2ch/48Khz/PCM
Could not write header for output file #0 (incorrect codec paramters ?)

It's easy: DV-Video have only two formats: 25 fps (PAL)
or 29,97 fps (NTSC)
The DV-Audiostream must have the codec PCM with the
parameters 48 Khz Samplingfrequence and two channels.

ffmpeg coudn't save the wrong parameters in the fileheader.
ffmpeg needs two streams (video AND audio), but no only
msmpeg4v2-stream. You must exactly reed the verbose-window.