Issues with Apple Intermediate Codec decoding

[Atarikid]

ffmpeg sometimes does not decode Quicktime Apple Intermediate Codec

/Users/Atari/Desktop/ffmpeg -i /Users/Atari/Desktop/doesnotconvert.mov -c:v libx264 /Users/Atari/Desktop/test.mov

ffmpeg output:

ffmpeg version 1.2 Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers

built on Mar 15 2013 23:55:08 with llvm-gcc 4.2.1 (LLVM build 2336.11.00)
configuration: --prefix=/Volumes/tempdisk/sw --as=yasm --enable-gpl --enable-pthreads --disable-ffplay --disable-ffserver --disable-shared --enable-static --enable-libvpx --disable-decoder=libvpx --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --enable-zlib --enable-avfilter --enable-fontconfig --enable-libfreetype --enable-libass --enable-filters --enable-postproc --enable-runtime-cpudetect
libavutil 52. 18.100 / 52. 18.100
libavcodec 54. 92.100 / 54. 92.100
libavformat 54. 63.104 / 54. 63.104
libavdevice 54. 3.103 / 54. 3.103
libavfilter 3. 42.103 / 3. 42.103
libswscale 2. 2.100 / 2. 2.100
libswresample 0. 17.102 / 0. 17.102
libpostproc 52. 2.100 / 52. 2.100

[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x7ffc93818e00] Could not find codec parameters for stream 0 (Video: none (icod / 0x646F6369), 960x540, 25962 kb/s): unknown codec
Consider increasing the value for the 'analyzeduration' and 'probesize' options
Guessed Channel Layout for Input Stream #0.1 : stereo
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '/Users/Atari/Desktop/doesnotconvert.mov':

Metadata:

creation_time : 2013-04-08 22:44:07

Duration: 00:00:02.10, start: 0.500501, bitrate: 34065 kb/s

Stream #0:0(eng): Video: none (icod / 0x646F6369), 960x540, 25962 kb/s, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 2997 tbn, 2997 tbc
Metadata:

creation_time : 2013-04-08 22:44:07
handler_name : Apple Alias Data Handler

Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: pcm_s16be (twos / 0x736F7774), 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 1536 kb/s
Metadata:

creation_time : 2013-04-08 22:44:07
handler_name : Apple Alias Data Handler

[buffer @ 0x7ffc934038e0] Unable to parse option value "-1" as pixel format
Error opening filters!

Forcing the pixel format doesn't help.

Because the source file was too big to upload, you can download it temporally here:
​http://www.4shared.com/zip/EaMleKSm/doesnotconvertmov.html

[Atarikid]

BTW I also tried to increase the analyzeduration and probesize ... no luck.

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Duplicate of ticket #1770.