FFMPEG hwaccel 将 WEBM 转换为 MP4 视频失败：找不到编解码器参数

Question

I use FFMPEG to convert webm videos into mp4 format using a Nvidia GPU GeoForce GTX 1660 card on Windows 10. It has worked perfectly since the beginning for few months but now it's stopped working with strange error as below:

[h264 @ 0000013d8b5eee00] missing picture in access unit with size 431
[extract_extradata @ 0000013d8b6aef40] No start code is found.
big-buck-bunny-trailer.webm: could not find codec parameters

FFMPEG version and Nvidia driver version are the same as before it just crashed overnight without a clue. I tried Googling around and did update to the latest ffmpeg version as well Nvidia driver version but it still doesn't help. If I switch to CPU decoder (without hwaccel arg) using libx264 it just works fine.

Environment Windows 10 64bit | ffmpeg version git-2020-04-15-51db0a4 (latest) | Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660, - Geoforce Game Ready Driver version:445.87 Release Date Apr 15, 2020

 ffmpeg -y -vsync 0 -hwaccel cuvid -c:v h264_cuvid -i big-buck-bunny-trailer.webm -c:v h264_nvenc output.mp4

ffmpeg version git-2020-04-15-51db0a4 Copyright (c) 2000-2020 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 9.3.1 (GCC) 20200328
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-sdl2 --enable-fontconfig --enable-gnutls --enable-iconv --enable-libass --enable-libdav1d --enable-libbluray --enable-libfreetype --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-libshine --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr --enable-libsrt --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxml2 --enable-libzimg --enable-lzma --enable-zlib --enable-gmp --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvmaf --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libmysofa --enable-libspeex --enable-libxvid --enable-libaom --disable-w32threads --enable-libmfx --enable-ffnvcodec --enable-cuda-llvm --enable-cuvid --enable-d3d11va --enable-nvenc --enable-nvdec --enable-dxva2 --enable-avisynth --enable-libopenmpt --enable-amf
  libavutil      56. 42.102 / 56. 42.102
  libavcodec     58. 78.102 / 58. 78.102
  libavformat    58. 42.100 / 58. 42.100
  libavdevice    58.  9.103 / 58.  9.103
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  libpostproc    55.  6.100 / 55.  6.100
[h264 @ 0000013d8b5eee00] missing picture in access unit with size 431
[extract_extradata @ 0000013d8b6aef40] No start code is found.
big-buck-bunny-trailer.webm: could not find codec parameters
WARNING: defaulting hwaccel_output_format to cuda for compatibility with old commandlines. This behaviour is DEPRECATED and will be removed in the future. Please explicitly set "-hwaccel_output_format cuda".
Guessed Channel Layout for Input Stream #0.1 : mono
Input #0, matroska,webm, from 'big-buck-bunny-trailer.webm':
  Metadata:
    encoder         : http://sourceforge.net/projects/yamka
    creation_time   : 2010-05-20T08:21:12.000000Z
  Duration: 00:00:32.48, bitrate: N/A
    Stream #0:0(eng): Video: h264, none, 640x360, SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 1k tbn (default)
    Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: vorbis, 44100 Hz, mono (default)
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (h264 (h264_cuvid) -> h264 (h264_nvenc))
  Stream #0:1 -> #0:1 (vorbis (native) -> aac (native))
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Too many packets buffered for output stream 0:1.
[aac @ 0000013d8b6bf5c0] Qavg: 115.929
[aac @ 0000013d8b6bf5c0] 2 frames left in the queue on closing
Conversion failed!

Does anyone know how to fix it, i am getting stuck for few days? Much appreciated!

Answer 1

Try with:

ffmpeg -y -vsync 0 -hwaccel cuvid -c:v vp8_cuvid -i big-buck-bunny-trailer.webm -c:v h264_nvenc output.mp4

or

ffmpeg -y -vsync 0 -hwaccel cuvid -c:v vp9_cuvid -i big-buck-bunny-trailer.webm -c:v h264_nvenc output.mp4

The Video codec sdk from nvidia needs the source to be specified first, in this case you need to change the h264 decoder for the vp8 or vp9 decoder.

Answer 2

I did manage to fix it by specify libvpx as the decoder as

ffmpeg -y -vsync 0 -hwaccel cuvid -c:v libvpx -i big-buck-bunny-trailer.webm -c:v h264_nvenc output.mp4

It makes sense because the libvpx is sure able to decode webm videos. Just wonder why h264_cuvid could not do the job anymore.