ffmpeg: packet size 2073600 < expected frame_size 4147200

Question

I have total 96 videos. I have converted most of videos using ffmpeg, but for some videos its giving me some error. As a first step I deinterlaced the video using the following command:

ffmpeg -video_size 1920x1080 -r 25 -pixel_format yuv422p -i stockholm.yuv -vf yadif  stockholm_deInt.yuv

And I am getting the following error:

[rawvideo @ 0x7fa144008c00] Invalid buffer size, packet size 2073600 < expected frame_size 4147200
Error while decoding stream #0:0: Invalid argument frame= 187 fps=3.7 q=-0.0 Lsize= 757350kB time=00:00:07.48 bitrate=829440.0kbits/s
video:757350kB audio:0kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead: 0.000000%

When I try to get the info about the video (ffprobe stockholm.yuv) I get the following:

[IMGUTILS @ 0x7fff5bac8140] Picture size 0x0 is invalid
[IMGUTILS @ 0x7fff5bac8150] Picture size 0x0 is invalid
[rawvideo @ 0x7fbcb200da00] Could not find codec parameters for stream 0 (Video: rawvideo (I420 / 0x30323449), yuv420p, -4 kb/s): unspecified size
Consider increasing the value for the 'analyzeduration' and 'probesize' options stockholm.yuv: Operation not permitted`

Does anyone have any idea?

Answer 1

I think the pixel_format could be wrong. The error could be happening at the last frame of the input file. Due to yuv422p format, it expects "4147200" pixels(bytes) for every frame. If input format is wrong, it would end be reading lesser bytes at the end of file.

Did you try the same command with yuv420p, for same input file?

I suggest you to cross-check the format of input yuv file.