Uncompressed BGR24 AVIs are occasionally unusable

[Eric Lasota]

Summary of the bug:
Converting to rawvideo BGR24 occasionally produces AVIs that can not be loaded by most Windows players. ffmpeg itself seems to be able to load them without issue though.

How to reproduce:
​https://www.dropbox.com/s/2bhlwsnwg5n77b4/damaged_uncompressed.zip?dl=0

damaged_uncompressed_source.avi is the source video.
damaged_uncompressed_out.avi is the output from FFMPEG. This file will not open in MPC-HC 1.6.7.7114 or Windows Media Player 12.0.9600.17031. VirtualDub 1.10.4 will open it, but it will not show any video.
damaged_uncompressed_out_vdub.avi is output from opening damaged_uncompressed_source.avi and saving it as Uncompressed using VirtualDub. It plays back fine in all of the aforementioned programs.

Using -pix_fmt yuv420p instead does not cause this problem.

Using -vcodec bmp instead will allow VirtualDub to open the video, but it will be upside-down and have severe artifacts. MPC-HC and WMP will still not load it.

% ffmpeg -i damaged_uncompressed_source.avi -pix_fmt bgr24 -vcodec rawvideo -y -report damaged_uncompressed_out.avi

Report log attached.

[Eric Lasota]

Report log

[Eric Lasota]

Full console out, though it should be in the log:

D:\vids>ffmpeg\bin\ffmpeg.exe -i damaged_uncompressed_source.avi -pix_fmt bgr24
-vcodec rawvideo -y -report damaged_uncompressed_out.avi
ffmpeg started on 2015-03-02 at 20:16:40
Report written to "ffmpeg-20150302-201640.log"
ffmpeg version N-70358-g047fd98 Copyright (c) 2000-2015 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 4.9.2 (GCC)
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --disable-w32threads --enable-av
isynth --enable-bzlib --enable-fontconfig --enable-frei0r --enable-gnutls --enab
le-iconv --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libbs2b --enable-libcaca --
enable-libfreetype --enable-libgme --enable-libgsm --enable-libilbc --enable-lib
modplug --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrw
b --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-librtmp --enable-libschroedinge
r --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --en
able-libvidstab --enable-libvo-aacenc --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libvorbis
 --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --enable-
libx265 --enable-libxavs --enable-libxvid --enable-lzma --enable-decklink --enab
le-zlib
  libavutil      54. 19.100 / 54. 19.100
  libavcodec     56. 26.100 / 56. 26.100
  libavformat    56. 23.106 / 56. 23.106
  libavdevice    56.  4.100 / 56.  4.100
  libavfilter     5. 11.102 /  5. 11.102
  libswscale      3.  1.101 /  3.  1.101
  libswresample   1.  1.100 /  1.  1.100
  libpostproc    53.  3.100 / 53.  3.100
Input #0, avi, from 'damaged_uncompressed_source.avi':
  Duration: 00:00:10.07, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 673 kb/s
    Stream #0:0: Video: cinepak (cvid / 0x64697663), rgb24, 70x58, 663 kb/s, 30
fps, 30 tbr, 30 tbn, 30 tbc
Output #0, avi, to 'damaged_uncompressed_out.avi':
  Metadata:
    ISFT            : Lavf56.23.106
    Stream #0:0: Video: rawvideo, bgr24, 70x58, q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 30 fps, 30 tbn
, 30 tbc
    Metadata:
      encoder         : Lavc56.26.100 rawvideo
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (cinepak (native) -> rawvideo (native))
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
frame=  302 fps=0.0 q=0.0 Lsize=    3605kB time=00:00:10.06 bitrate=2933.5kbits/
s
video:3592kB audio:0kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:0kB muxing
overhead: 0.351515%

[Elon Musk]

I can not reproduce this with VirtualDub version 1.10.4.

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Still reproducible with WMP.
width % 4 vs. width % 2

[Elon Musk]

I believe there is nothing to fix, use something better.