ffmpeg converting m4s to mp4

Question

I'm working on DASH, trying to optimize QoE for the end user.

I had a video and encoded it using ffmpeg into different bitrates and everything is fine, and the video is playable using dash.

What I want is to combine the received segments from the users into one m4s and convert that m4s to mp4.

I tried a lot of ways in ffmpeg, but it always give me this error:

[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x9a9e500] could not find corresponding track id 1
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x9a9e500] could not find corresponding trex
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x9a9e500] error reading header
test2.m4s: Invalid data found when processing input

segment_1.m4s is there.

How can I resolve this issue?

Answer 1

This works

Combine the m4s segments together into one file, making sure the file order is correct. E.g.

cat video-0.m4s >> all.m4s
cat video-1.m4s >> all.m4s
cat video-2.m4s >> all.m4s
cat video-3.m4s >> all.m4s
cat video-4.m4s >> all.m4s
cat video-5.m4s >> all.m4s
cat video-6.m4s >> all.m4s
cat video-7.m4s >> all.m4s
cat video-8.m4s >> all.m4s
cat video-9.m4s >> all.m4s
cat video-10.m4s >> all.m4s

And then do all your conversions at once.

ffmpeg -i all.m4s -c copy video.mp4

This doesn't

I get the same issue (could not find corresponding trex) trying the streaming method.

I had all the files I wanted in a all.txt file, which contained

file 'video-0.m4s'
file 'video-1.m4s'
file 'video-2.m4s'
file 'video-3.m4s'
file 'video-4.m4s'
file 'video-5.m4s'
file 'video-6.m4s'
file 'video-7.m4s'
file 'video-8.m4s'
file 'video-9.m4s'
file 'video-10.m4s'

And I tried ffmpeg -f concat -safe 0 -i all.txt -c copy video.mp4, resulting in the same issue.

[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x55fde2d0c520] Could not find codec parameters for stream 0 (Video: h264 (avc1 / 0x31637661), none, 1280x720): unspecified pixel format
Consider increasing the value for the 'analyzeduration' and 'probesize' options
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x55fde2d0c520] Auto-inserting h264_mp4toannexb bitstream filter
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x55fde2d0c520] could not find corresponding track id 1
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x55fde2d0c520] could not find corresponding trex
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x55fde2d0c520] error reading header
[concat @ 0x55fde2cff900] Impossible to open 'rifle-1.m4s'
[concat @ 0x55fde2cff900] Could not find codec parameters for stream 0 (Video: h264 (avc1 / 0x31637661), none, 1280x720): unspecified pixel format
Consider increasing the value for the 'analyzeduration' and 'probesize' options
Input #0, concat, from 'all.txt':
[... omitted ...]
all.txt: Input/output error