Opened 17 months ago
Closed 6 months ago
#11433 closed defect (fixed)
Innocuous "Error parsing Opus packet header" on YouTube sources?
| Reported by: | idest | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | normal | Component: | avcodec |
| Version: | git-master | Keywords: | opus |
| Cc: | MasterQuestionable | Blocked By: | |
| Blocking: | Reproduced by developer: | no | |
| Analyzed by developer: | yes |
Description
If I try executing this command:
ffmpeg.exe -hide_banner -i sample.mkv -vn -c:a copy audio.opus
I get the following output:
Input #0, matroska,webm, from 'sample.mkv':
Metadata:
MINOR_VERSION : 0
COMPATIBLE_BRANDS: iso6avc1mp41
MAJOR_BRAND : dash
ENCODER : Lavf61.9.106
Duration: 00:00:02.04, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 4006 kb/s
Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (High), yuv420p(tv, bt709, progressive), 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 1k tbn (default)
Metadata:
HANDLER_NAME : ISO Media file produced by Google Inc.
VENDOR_ID : [0][0][0][0]
DURATION : 00:00:02.035000000
Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: opus, 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp (default)
Metadata:
DURATION : 00:00:02.008000000
Stream mapping:
Stream #0:1 -> #0:0 (copy)
Output #0, opus, to 'audio.opus':
Metadata:
MINOR_VERSION : 0
COMPATIBLE_BRANDS: iso6avc1mp41
MAJOR_BRAND : dash
encoder : Lavf61.9.106
Stream #0:0(eng): Audio: opus, 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp (default)
Metadata:
DURATION : 00:00:02.008000000
MINOR_VERSION : 0
COMPATIBLE_BRANDS: iso6avc1mp41
MAJOR_BRAND : dash
encoder : Lavf61.9.106
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
[opus @ 0000025d6ae586c0] Error parsing Opus packet header.
[out#0/opus @ 0000025d6ae17e40] video:0KiB audio:33KiB subtitle:0KiB other streams:0KiB global headers:0KiB muxing overhead: 1.503042%
size= 33KiB time=00:00:02.00 bitrate= 136.1kbits/s speed= 571x
Notice the line "[opus @ 0000025d6ae586c0] Error parsing Opus packet header".
While the resulting file, audio.opus, doesn't seem to have any errors, I thought I should report this anyway.
Reported FFMpeg version: N-118325-gea381285e7-20250119.
OS: Windows 10 Home.
Attachments (1)
Change History (5)
by , 17 months ago
| Attachment: | sample.mkv added |
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comment:1 by , 17 months ago
| Summary: | "Error parsing Opus packet header" when extracting an Opus audio stream from an MKV container → "Error parsing Opus packet header" when extracting Opus audio stream |
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comment:2 by , 17 months ago
comment:3 by , 17 months ago
| Analyzed by developer: | set |
|---|---|
| Cc: | added |
| Component: | undetermined → avcodec |
| Keywords: | opus added |
| Summary: | "Error parsing Opus packet header" when extracting Opus audio stream → Innocuous "Error parsing Opus packet header" on YouTube sources? |
| Version: | unspecified → git-master |
͏ `yt-dlp` typically won't re-encode the media.
͏ The media would be typically that created by Google/YouTube, unchanged.
͏ "Error parsing Opus packet header"
͏ https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/2f4ec1683651e597dcdb13d1a4e679f3c1da0b16/libavcodec/opus/parser.c#L87
͏ https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/3f9ca51015020d6d60a48923c55d66cc3ea04e9b/libavcodec/opus/parse.c#L92-L284
comment:4 by , 6 months ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |



FWIW, I've been experimenting and ffmpeg.exe seems to emit the "Error parsing Opus packet header" error for any YouTube video I download with yt-dlp. Since the latter uses ffmpeg.exe to mux video and audio streams (files) downloaded from YouTube, this is perhaps an ffmpeg's issue.