image2pipe looses synch with a pipe of PBM images

[Lorenzo Pistone]

After some frames (2000), ffmpeg outputs an error (Error while decoding stream #0:0), and goes on encoding, but subsequent output frames contain pieces of adjacent input frames, as if ffmpeg had lost track of the correct beginning of an image. The attached file is my input. Command line is

ffmpeg -f image2pipe -vcodec pbm -r 30 -i - -vcodec libx264 -threads 2 -preset medium -crf 24 -y output.mkv

[Lorenzo Pistone]

input

[Lorenzo Pistone]

I ran other tests. It fails when I input more than exactly 1989 frames. Since each PBM that I stream is 80011 bytes long, that means that it fails somewhere while reading bytes from 159141879 to 159221890

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Is libx264 required to reproduce the problem? If not, please use an internal encoder to report problems.

Please provide complete, uncut console output.

[Lorenzo Pistone]

ffmpeg -f image2pipe -vcodec pbm -r 30 -i - -y -vcodec yuv4 output.mkv

ffmpeg version N-33891-g0e82d31 Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the FFmpeg developers
  built on May 19 2012 15:17:38 with gcc 4.6.3 20120306 (Red Hat 4.6.3-2)
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-pic --arch=amd64 --cpu=native --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libv4l2 --enable-libtheora --enable-libspeex --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libpulse --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libfaac --enable-nonfree
  libavutil      51. 53.100 / 51. 53.100
  libavcodec     54. 21.101 / 54. 21.101
  libavformat    54.  5.100 / 54.  5.100
  libavdevice    53.  4.100 / 53.  4.100
  libavfilter     2. 74.102 /  2. 74.102
  libswscale      2.  1.100 /  2.  1.100
  libswresample   0. 12.100 /  0. 12.100
  libpostproc    52.  0.100 / 52.  0.100
[image2pipe @ 0x1839340] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
Input #0, image2pipe, from 'pipe:':
  Duration: N/A, bitrate: N/A
    Stream #0:0: Video: pbm, monow, 800x800, 30 fps, 30 tbr, 30 tbn, 30 tbc
[buffer @ 0x18487a0] w:800 h:800 pixfmt:monow tb:1/1000000 sar:0/1 sws_param:flags=2
[buffersink @ 0x1be5400] No opaque field provided
[format @ 0x18adba0] auto-inserting filter 'auto-inserted scaler 0' between the filter 'src' and the filter 'format'
[scale @ 0x1843060] w:800 h:800 fmt:monow sar:0/1 -> w:800 h:800 fmt:yuv420p sar:0/1 flags:0x4
Output #0, matroska, to 'output.mkv':
  Metadata:
    encoder         : Lavf54.5.100
    Stream #0:0: Video: yuv4 (yuv4 / 0x34767579), yuv420p, 800x800, q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 1k tbn, 30 tbc
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (pbm -> yuv4)
Error while decoding stream #0:01834724kB time=00:01:05.23 bitrate=230405.8kbits/s    
Error while decoding stream #0:01935977kB time=00:01:08.86 bitrate=230295.4kbits/s    
frame= 2079 fps= 63 q=0.0 Lsize= 1949146kB time=00:01:09.33 bitrate=230300.3kbits/s    
video:1949062kB audio:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 0.004309%