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BrettSheleski
Chapter end time before start
Comskip generated the following /recordings/movie.edl:
0.00 739.92 0
3502.08 3698.60 0
5162.68 5350.08 0
I feeded it into Comchap with command:
/home/comchap/comchap --ffmpeg=/usr/bin/ffmpeg --comskip=/usr/bin/comskip --keep-edl --keep-meta /recordings/movie.mkv
This generates the /recordings/movie.ffmeta
;FFMETADATA1
[CHAPTER]
TIMEBASE=1/1000
START=0
END=3502080
title=Chapter 1
[CHAPTER]
TIMEBASE=1/1000
START=3502080
END=3698600
title=Commercial 1
[CHAPTER]
TIMEBASE=1/1000
START=3698600
END=0
title=Chapter 2
[CHAPTER]
TIMEBASE=1/1000
START=0
END=0
title=Commercial 2
[CHAPTER]
TIMEBASE=1/1000
START=0
END=6179950
title=Chapter 3
... and then Comchap crashes with message:
[ffmetadata @ 0x74a36030] Chapter end time 0 before start 3698600
/recordings/movie.ffmeta: Out of memory
Error running ffmpeg: /recordings/movie.mkv
RAM may not the issue, there is a lot of free memory..
Maybe this part of the .ffmeta is corrupt?
...
[CHAPTER]
TIMEBASE=1/1000
START=3698600
END=0
title=Chapter 2
...
System information Raspberry Pi 3 (armhf) awk: BusyBox v1.26.2 (2017-06-11 06:38:58 GMT) multi-call binary. Comskip 0.81.098, made using ffmpeg Comchap master (d52aa367d369652f0a0dcd638ab46d35095f7a42)
The ffmeta file definitely doesn't look right and more than likely is the reason to the failure.
I don't know what could have happened to generate that ffmeta file from the edl file posted as it appears to be skipping at least one entry. When I get time I'll try to replicate and fix.
I had the same problem - but discovered that it was due to spaces vs tabs. make sure your edl file is using tabs between the entries on each line
I am experiencing this problem. I checked my edl file and it has tabs. Here is the error:
[ffmetadata @ 0x7fcb57820600] Chapter end time 9000030 before start 9000230
/Volumes/Movies/movie.ffmeta: Cannot allocate memory
0 39.11 3
1260.53 1480.65 3
2166.7 2446.85 3
3049.55 3314.61 3
3981.68 4186.89 3
4780.58 5000.8 3
5839.1 6118.75 3
6793.76 7003.97 3
7805.67 9000.23 3
I was able to reproduce the ffmeta file for the previous edl file. You can see the last chapter is the one giving problems.
0 21.92 3
891.19 1145.18 3
1844.41 2009.51 3
2824.09 3109.27 3
3764.76 4124.85 3
4901 5186.18 3
5928.39 6213.57 3
6906.7 7199.52 3
;FFMETADATA1
[CHAPTER]
TIMEBASE=1/1000
START=0
END=0
title=Chapter 1
[CHAPTER]
TIMEBASE=1/1000
START=0
END=21920
title=Commercial 1
[CHAPTER]
TIMEBASE=1/1000
START=21920
END=891190
title=Chapter 2
[CHAPTER]
TIMEBASE=1/1000
START=891190
END=1145180
title=Commercial 2
[CHAPTER]
TIMEBASE=1/1000
START=1145180
END=1844410
title=Chapter 3
[CHAPTER]
TIMEBASE=1/1000
START=1844410
END=2009510
title=Commercial 3
[CHAPTER]
TIMEBASE=1/1000
START=2009510
END=2824090
title=Chapter 4
[CHAPTER]
TIMEBASE=1/1000
START=2824090
END=3109270
title=Commercial 4
[CHAPTER]
TIMEBASE=1/1000
START=3109270
END=3764760
title=Chapter 5
[CHAPTER]
TIMEBASE=1/1000
START=3764760
END=4124850
title=Commercial 5
[CHAPTER]
TIMEBASE=1/1000
START=4124850
END=4901000
title=Chapter 6
[CHAPTER]
TIMEBASE=1/1000
START=4901000
END=5186180
title=Commercial 6
[CHAPTER]
TIMEBASE=1/1000
START=5186180
END=5928390
title=Chapter 7
[CHAPTER]
TIMEBASE=1/1000
START=5928390
END=6213570
title=Commercial 7
[CHAPTER]
TIMEBASE=1/1000
START=6213570
END=6906700
title=Chapter 8
[CHAPTER]
TIMEBASE=1/1000
START=6906700
END=7199520
title=Commercial 8
[CHAPTER]
TIMEBASE=1/1000
START=7199520
END=7199300
title=Chapter 9
It looks like Comskip is producing a chapter with an end time after the total end time of the video. It should be a simple fix to account for this case.
Do you know what might cause this? I was assuming that the script is looking at the EDL file, which exists, and then computing the ffmeta file. I think my edl file looks correct, so maybe something in the logic calculation?
It looks like Comskip is producing a chapter with an end time after the total end time of the video. It should be a simple fix to account for this case.
I am working also at the "problem" to write chapters with ffmpeg and it was also the same issue why I got a memory error (wrong end time of last chapter)
