Decoding an elementary HEVC stream using ffmpeg

Question

I have successfully compiled and installed FFMPEG_2.1 from source code. I know that ffmpeg from version 2.1 onwards supports HEVC decoder. I have generated a .bin file using HM 10.0 and HM 11.0 HEVC reference code.

However, when i give this bin file as an input to the ffmpeg i get an Input/output Error.

The command that i have used is given below:

ffmpeg -i Johnny_1280x720_60qp22.bin out.yuv

The output of the above command is as shown below:

ffmpeg version 2.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Nov 21 2013 15:52:14 with gcc 4.6 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5)
  configuration: 
  libavutil      52. 48.100 / 52. 48.100
  libavcodec     55. 39.100 / 55. 39.100
  libavformat    55. 19.104 / 55. 19.104
  libavdevice    55.  5.100 / 55.  5.100
  libavfilter     3. 90.100 /  3. 90.100
  libswscale      2.  5.101 /  2.  5.101
  libswresample   0. 17.104 /  0. 17.104
Input #0, bin, from 'Johnny_1280x720_60qp22.bin':
  Duration: N/A, bitrate: N/A
    Stream #0:0: Video: bintext, pal8, 1280x118288, 25 tbr, 25 tbn, 25 tbc
Output #0, rawvideo, to 'out.yuv':
  Metadata:
    encoder         : Lavf55.19.104
    Stream #0:0: Video: rawvideo, pal8, 1280x118288, q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 90k tbn, 25 tbc
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (bintext -> rawvideo)
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Johnny_1280x720_60qp22.bin: Input/output error
frame=    1 fps=0.3 q=0.0 size=  147861kB time=00:00:00.04 bitrate=30281932.8kbiframe=    1 fps=0.3 q=0.0 Lsize=  147861kB time=00:00:00.04 bitrate=30281932.8kbits/s    
video:147861kB audio:0kB subtitle:0 global headers:0kB muxing overhead 0.000000

Can anyone please tell me why i'm facing this problem and how i can rectify it.

Answer 1

This is the output I get for a hevc sequence encoded using HM 12.1.

$ ./ffmpeg -i kimono_hevc.bin out.yuv
ffmpeg version N-58122-g7cd555d Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Nov 16 2013 20:40:03 with gcc 4.7 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.3-1ubuntu1)
  configuration: --enable-libx264 --enable-gpl --enable-libmp3lame
  libavutil      52. 53.100 / 52. 53.100
  libavcodec     55. 43.100 / 55. 43.100
  libavformat    55. 21.100 / 55. 21.100
  libavdevice    55.  5.100 / 55.  5.100
  libavfilter     3. 91.100 /  3. 91.100
  libswscale      2.  5.101 /  2.  5.101
  libswresample   0. 17.104 /  0. 17.104
  libpostproc    52.  3.100 / 52.  3.100
Input #0, hevc, from 'kimono_hevc.bin':
  Duration: N/A, bitrate: N/A
    Stream #0:0: Video: hevc, yuv420p(tv), 1920x1080, 25 tbr, 1200k tbn, 25 tbc
Output #0, rawvideo, to 'out.yuv':
  Metadata:
    encoder         : Lavf55.21.100
    Stream #0:0: Video: rawvideo (I420 / 0x30323449), yuv420p, 1920x1080, q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 90k tbn, 25 tbc
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (hevc -> rawvideo)
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frame=    1 fps=0.0 q=0.0 Lsize=    3038kB time=00:00:00.04 bitrate=622080.0kbits/s    
video:3038kB audio:0kB subtitle:0 global headers:0kB muxing overhead 0.000000%

Notice that in my example I get

Stream #0:0: Video: hevc, yuv420p(tv)

while you get:

Stream #0:0: Video: bintext, pal8,

HM10 is old and the NAL-structure among other things changed. Any reason for not using the latest?

To download the latest hevc reference code and how to compile it, see my post @ https://stackoverflow.com/a/19305907/297323