Hi all,

I'm struggling with something in FFMpeg at the moment...

I'm trying to make DNxHD 1080p/24, 36Mb/s MXF files from a sequence of PNG files.

My current command-line is:

ffmpeg -y -f image2 -i /tmp/temp.%04d.png -s 1920x1080 -r 24 -vcodec dnxhd -f mxf -pix_fmt rgb32 -b 36Mb /tmp/temp.mxf

To which ffmpeg gives me the output:

Input #0, image2, from '/tmp/temp.%04d.png':
  Duration: 00:00:01.60, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
    Stream #0.0: Video: png, rgb32, 1920x1080, 25 tbr, 25 tbn, 25 tbc
Output #0, mxf, to '/tmp/temp.mxf':
    Stream #0.0: Video: dnxhd, yuv422p, 1920x1080, q=2-31, 36000 kb/s, 90k tbn, 24 tbc
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
[mxf @ 0x1005800]unsupported video frame rate
Could not write header for output file #0 (incorrect codec parameters ?)

There are a few things in here that concern me:

• The output stream is insisting on being yuv422p, which doesn't support alpha.
• 24fps is an unsupported video frame rate? I've tried 23.976 too, and get the same thing.

I then tried the same thing, but writing to a quicktime (still DNxHD, though) with:

ffmpeg -y -f image2 -i /tmp/temp.%04d.png -s 1920x1080 -r 24 -vcodec dnxhd -f mov -pix_fmt rgb32 -b 36Mb /tmp/temp.mov

This gives me the output:

Input #0, image2, from '/tmp/1274263259.28098.%04d.png':
  Duration: 00:00:01.60, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
    Stream #0.0: Video: png, rgb32, 1920x1080, 25 tbr, 25 tbn, 25 tbc
Output #0, mov, to '/tmp/1274263259.28098.mov':
    Stream #0.0: Video: dnxhd, yuv422p, 1920x1080, q=2-31, 36000 kb/s, 90k tbn, 24 tbc
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Press [q] to stop encoding
frame=   39 fps=  9 q=1.0 Lsize=    7177kB time=1.62 bitrate=36180.8kbits/s    
video:7176kB audio:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 0.013636%

Which obviously works, to a certain extent, but still has the issue of being yuv422p, and therefore losing the alpha.

If I'm going to QuickTime, then I can get what I need using Shake, but my main aim here is to be able to generate .mxf files.

Any thoughts?

Thanks