ffmpeg not working after change from 7.0.12.1 to 7.0.23.1

[btf1962]

Going from SageTV 7.0.12.1 to 7.0.23.1 I managed to break video conversions.

Previously I generated iPhone widescreen conversions just fine. Now the conversions produce a much larger and broken file output. Playback shows audio and video are out of sync.

I revamped my Ubuntu server going from Ubuntu 9.10 server to Ubuntu 10.10 desktop. I used these Debian packages downloaded from sagetv.com

sagetv-client_7.0.23_i386.deb
sagetv-server_7.0.23_i386.deb

I restored my database and /var/media directories and everything seems great. (Recording, viewing, etc. are just fine.)

But conversions are now botched.

Here's the ffmpeg -version output from before and after.

ffmpeg -version under 7.0.12.1 (old - worked):

FFmpeg version SVN-r67, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
  configuration: --disable-ffserver --disable-ffplay --enable-gpl --enable-pthreads --enable-libfaad --enable-libfaac --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --disable-devices --disable-bzlib --prefix=/sage/bin/mplayerhq-sage/libs/ --extra-cflags=-I/sage/bin/mplayerhq-sage/libs/include --extra-ldflags=-L/sage/bin/mplayerhq-sage/libs/lib --disable-demuxer=msnwc_tcp
  libavutil     50. 2. 0 / 50. 2. 0
  libavcodec    52.22. 3 / 52.22. 3
  libavformat   52.32. 0 / 52.32. 0
  libavdevice   52. 1. 0 / 52. 1. 0
  libswscale     0. 7. 1 /  0. 7. 1
  built on Jul 14 2010 16:22:41, gcc: 4.4.3
FFmpeg SVN-r67
libavutil     50. 2. 0 / 50. 2. 0
libavcodec    52.22. 3 / 52.22. 3
libavformat   52.32. 0 / 52.32. 0
libavdevice   52. 1. 0 / 52. 1. 0
libswscale     0. 7. 1 /  0. 7. 1

ffmpeg -version under 7.0.23.1 (new - broken):

FFmpeg version SVN-r90, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Oct  7 2010 18:39:46 with gcc 4.4.3
  configuration: --disable-ffserver --disable-ffplay --enable-gpl --enable-pthreads --enable-nonfree --enable-libfaac --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --disable-devices --disable-bzlib --prefix=/sage/bin/mplayerhq-sage/libs/ --extra-cflags=-I/sage/bin/mplayerhq-sage/libs/include --extra-ldflags=-L/sage/bin/mplayerhq-sage/libs/lib --disable-demuxer=msnwc_tcp --enable-libfaad
  libavutil     50.22. 0 / 50.22. 0
  libavcodec    52.83. 0 / 52.83. 0
  libavformat   52.73. 0 / 52.73. 0
  libavdevice   52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0
  libavfilter    1.22. 0 /  1.22. 0
  libswscale     0.11. 0 /  0.11. 0
FFmpeg SVN-r90
libavutil     50.22. 0 / 50.22. 0
libavcodec    52.83. 0 / 52.83. 0
libavformat   52.73. 0 / 52.73. 0
libavdevice   52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0
libavfilter    1.22. 0 /  1.22. 0
libswscale     0.11. 0 /  0.11. 0

I also noticed changes in the Sage.properties file defining the parameters for transcoder/formats/iPhone-Widescreen:

7.0.12.1 (old - working):

transcoder/formats/iPhone-Widescreen=f\=mp4;MCompressionDetails\=-deinterlace -g 150 -qmin 26 -level 30 -flags loop -sc_threshold 40 -partitions partp4x4 -rc_eq blurCplx^(1-qComp) -refs 1 -qmax 51 -maxrate 768000 -bufsize 768k -keyint_min 40 -async 50;[bf\=vid;f\=h264;br\=640000;fps\=29.97;w\=480;h\=272;arn\=16;ard\=9;][bf\=aud;f\=aac;sr\=48000;ch\=2;br\=128000;]

7.0.23.1 (new - broken):

transcoder/formats/iPhone-Widescreen=f\=mp4;MCompressionDetails\=-coder 0 -flags +loop -cmp +chroma -partitions +parti8x8+parti4x4+partp8x8+partb8x8 -me_method umh -subq 8 -me_range 16 -g 250 -keyint_min 25 -sc_threshold 40 -i_qfactor 0.71 -b_strategy 2 -qcomp 0.6 -qmin 10 -qmax 51 -qdiff 4 -bf 0 -refs 5 -directpred 3 -trellis 1 -flags2 -wpred-dct8x8 -wpredp 0 -rc_lookahead 50 -level 13 -maxrate 768000 -bufsize 3000000 -async 50;[bf\=vid;f\=h264;br\=640000;fps\=29.97;w\=480;h\=272;arn\=16;ard\=9;][bf\=aud;f\=aac;sr\=48000;ch\=2;br\=128000;]

I will probably try to use the old transcoder/format/iPhone-Widescreen definition in the new Sage.properties file and see how that goes ...

[btf1962]

Apparently the old transcoder format definition will not work with the newer version of ffmpeg. May turn this into an official service request ...