"Unrecognized option 'deblockalpha'" error

by Arthis » Fri Jun 08, 2012 1:48 am

Hopefully someone can give me some pointers here. I've been using an older build of WinFF for about two years to do command line recoding of WMV files into h.264 MP4 files. Because WinFF is somewhat limited, and I don't need the GUI for command line work anyway, I was hoping to switch to this build.

I'm running the latest release of the 64 bit static build on a Win Server 2008 machine with 12gb of memory. Using the 32 bit WinFF build works fine, but the 64 bit FFMPEG offered here fails with the following message:

Unrecognized option 'deblockalpha'
Failed to set value '0' for option 'deblockalpha'

This is my exec string:

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ffmpeg.exe -y -i "c:\mshare\queued\c41mv19.wmv" -pass 1 -s 624x352 -b:v 640k -threads 2 -f mp4 -r 20 -vcodec libx264 -t 02:00:00 -aspect 16:9 -flags +loop+mv4 -cmp +chroma -deblockalpha 0 -deblockbeta 0 -partitions -parti8x8+parti4x4+partp8x8-partp4x4-partb8x8 -me_method umh -subq 5 -me_range 16 -g 250 -keyint_min 25 -sc_threshold 40 -i_qfactor 0.71 -b_strategy 1 -qcomp 0.6 -qmin 10 -qmax 51 -qdiff 4 -directpred 1 -crf 20 -bf 3 -coder 1 -flags2 -wpred-dct8x8 "c:\mshare\output\c41mv19_r11.mp4

Any idea what the problem might be? Is this build missing some libraries that I need? I've never done an FFMPEG build before, but I can go that route if I need. I'm just not quite sure what's missing, and from the documentation it looks like h.264 encoding should be supported.

by **rogerdpack** » Fri Jun 08, 2012 6:19 pm

so using the latest builds, 32-bit works but 64 bit doesn't, same command line?

by **Arthis** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 3:26 pm

No, my two year old 32 bit WinFF build works fine with that command line. My 64 bit FFmpeg build from last Thursday doesn't. I'm going to try the latest WinFF build and the 32 bit FFmpeg build here shortly. I was just hoping that I was missing something simple, and that someone had a "Oh, you just need to...." solution for me.

Time to do a bit of digging I guess.

by **rogerdpack** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 3:41 pm

Yeah I know some command line parameters have changed, but I'm not too familiar with the exact changes...I hope it is reproducible with the latest 32 bits, that would seem to imply it's just a command line change.

by **Arthis** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 6:10 pm

Same error on the 32 bit static build. Interestingly, the command line works fine on the latest 32 bit build from WinFF, so I'm guessing there's some difference between the included libraries in the two distributions. Unfortunately the WinFF guys don't list the exact libraries they're including in their build, so I haven't yet figured out where the difference is. -codecs shows that both are running the expected libx264, so I'm left scratching my head as to why it would work on one and not the other. Further testing showed that "deblockalpha", "deblockbeta", and "directpred" all throw errors.

I'll have to come back to this later. I'd been hoping to switch to this FFmpeg distro so that i could move to 64 bit, but I can't stall my current project to spend any more time on this. We use FFMpeg as part of an in-house transcode/indexing system to publish faculty lectures for our students to view after their classes, and I have a hard deadline to get the system rewrite finished.

by **Arthis** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:24 am

Just in case anyone else wanders into this discussion, I found the cause. It turns out that the deblockalpha/beta parameters were deprecated over a year ago. That's what I get for not keeping up on these things :oops:

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