Exporting chapters in Davinci Resolve 20.2 fails during invalid chapter start

  • Vouk 13. September 2025 um 19:59

    Hat das Thema freigeschaltet.
    • Offizieller Beitrag

    Please remove the first chapter:

    Code
    2025-09-13 19:47:19 (trace)	[FFmpeg:0]     Chapter #0:0: 
    2025-09-13 19:47:19 (trace)	[FFmpeg:0] start 0.000000, 
    2025-09-13 19:47:19 (trace)	[FFmpeg:0] end 0.000000
    2025-09-13 19:47:19 (trace)	[FFmpeg:0]       Metadata:
    2025-09-13 19:47:19 (trace)	[FFmpeg:0]         title           : 
    2025-09-13 19:47:19 (trace)	[FFmpeg:0] Marker 1
  • I guess, the end time with "0" is invalid, there has to be the end of video file or the start of next chapter. But zero might be invalid.


    Example:


    Actually Voukoder sets it to:

    Einmal editiert, zuletzt von mbc (13. September 2025 um 20:22)

    • Offizieller Beitrag

    The error was:

    Code
    2025-09-13 19:47:19 (trace)    [FFmpeg:0] Invalid chapter start (126280000000) or end (0).
    2025-09-13 19:47:19 (error)    [OutputNode.cpp:201] Unable to write format header.
    2025-09-13 19:47:19 (error)    [Router.cpp:161] Open phase failed: -11

    The chapter data was:

  • This might be the problem, chapter end time is zero on every marker.


    The example on my previous post shows that there must be some value greater as, at least, the start of the actual chapter.
    End time can not be lower as it`s start time.

    I think ffmpeg does not like that.

    Einmal editiert, zuletzt von mbc (13. September 2025 um 20:23)

  • Thank you!

    Another example points it out too, end time has to be be greater as start time and as maximum the start of the next chapter or video end time.

    2 Mal editiert, zuletzt von mbc (13. September 2025 um 20:29)