I cannot get ffmpeg to capture a video of X11 desktop, encoded by h264.
I can capture the desktop without specifying an encoder, with
ffmpeg -y -f x11grab -s wuxga -r 5 -i :1 output.avi -loglevel repeat+level+debug:[info] ffmpeg started on 2019-09-16 at 10:59:13 Report written to "ffmpeg-20190916-105913.log" Command line: ffmpeg -y -f x11grab -s wuxga -r 5 -i :1 output.avi -loglevel repeat+level+debug -report [info] ffmpeg version 4.0.2 Copyright (c) 2000-2018 the FFmpeg developers [info] built with gcc 7 (SUSE Linux) [info] configuration: --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 --shlibdir=/usr/lib64 --incdir=/usr/include/ffmpeg --docdir=/usr/share/doc/packages/ffmpeg --extra-cflags='-fmessage-length=0 -grecord-gcc-switches -O2 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector-strong -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection' --optflags='-fmessage-length=0 -grecord-gcc-switches -O2 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector-strong -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection' --enable-pic --disable-stripping --enable-shared --disable-static --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-libxcb --enable-libxcb-shm --enable-libxcb-xfixes --enable-libxcb-shape [info] libavutil 56. 14.100 / 56. 14.100 [info] libavcodec 58. 18.100 / 58. 18.100 [info] libavformat 58. 12.100 / 58. 12.100 [info] libavdevice 58. 3.100 / 58. 3.100 [info] libavfilter 7. 16.100 / 7. 16.100 [info] libswscale 5. 1.100 / 5. 1.100 [info] libswresample 3. 1.100 / 3. 1.100 ... ... [info] Output #0, avi, to 'output.avi': [info] Metadata: [info] ISFT : Lavf58.12.100 [info] Stream #0:0, 0, 1/5: Video: mpeg4, 1 reference frame (FMP4 / 0x34504D46), yuv420p, 1920x1200, 0/1, q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 5 fps, 5 tbn, 5 tbc [info] Metadata: [info] encoder : Lavc58.18.100 mpeg4 [info] Side data: [info] cpb: bitrate max/min/avg: 0/0/200000 buffer size: 0 vbv_delay: -1 ... ... [info] video:811kB audio:0kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead: 0.711410% [verbose] Input file #0 (:1): [verbose] Input stream #0:0 (video): 9 packets read (82944000 bytes); 9 frames decoded; [verbose] Total: 9 packets (82944000 bytes) demuxed [verbose] Output file #0 (output.avi): [verbose] Output stream #0:0 (video): 9 frames encoded; 9 packets muxed (830464 bytes); [verbose] Total: 9 packets (830464 bytes) muxed [debug] 9 frames successfully decoded, 0 decoding errors [AVIOContext @ 0x563d11c6aac0] [debug] Statistics: 8 seeks, 11 writeoutsAfter adding the encoder option
-c:v h264_v4l2m2mthe capture fails:[info] ffmpeg started on 2019-09-16 at 10:59:04 Report written to "ffmpeg-20190916-105904.log" Command line: ffmpeg -y -f x11grab -s wuxga -r 5 -i :1 -c:v h264_v4l2m2m output.avi -loglevel repeat+level+debug -report [info] ffmpeg version 4.0.2 Copyright (c) 2000-2018 the FFmpeg developers [info] built with gcc 7 (SUSE Linux) [info] configuration: --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 --shlibdir=/usr/lib64 --incdir=/usr/include/ffmpeg --docdir=/usr/share/doc/packages/ffmpeg --extra-cflags='-fmessage-length=0 -grecord-gcc-switches -O2 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector-strong -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection' --optflags='-fmessage-length=0 -grecord-gcc-switches -O2 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector-strong -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection' --enable-pic --disable-stripping --enable-shared --disable-static --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-libxcb --enable-libxcb-shm --enable-libxcb-xfixes --enable-libxcb-shape [info] libavutil 56. 14.100 / 56. 14.100 [info] libavcodec 58. 18.100 / 58. 18.100 [info] libavformat 58. 12.100 / 58. 12.100 [info] libavdevice 58. 3.100 / 58. 3.100 [info] libavfilter 7. 16.100 / 7. 16.100 [info] libswscale 5. 1.100 / 5. 1.100 [info] libswresample 3. 1.100 / 3. 1.100 ... ... [debug] Applying option c:v (codec name) with argument h264_v4l2m2m. ... ... [info] Stream mapping: [info] Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (rawvideo (native) -> h264 (h264_v4l2m2m)) ... ... [h264_v4l2m2m @ 0x5605d58c0100] [error] Could not find a valid device [h264_v4l2m2m @ 0x5605d58c0100] [error] can't configure encoder [error] Error initializing output stream 0:0 -- Error while opening encoder for output stream #0:0 - maybe incorrect parameters such as bit_rate, rate, width or height [AVIOContext @ 0x5605d58c1280] [debug] Statistics: 0 seeks, 0 writeouts [info] Conversion failed!What am I doing wrong? (For completeness, I have a custom build of ffmpeg, but the encoder seems to be included…)
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