Remove ffmpeg clutter from log files
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2014 4:24 amI started noticing errors like this in my subsonic.log file when playing certain songs.
It never really hurt anything, but I don't like cluttered log files, so I tracked down the problem. When ffmpeg encounters a song with album artwork, it processes it as a video track, usually with MJPEG encoding. We can tell ffmpeg to ignore video tracks by adding -vn to the transcode settings, like this:
This makes cleaner log files, reduces hard drive access, and might reduce CPU consumption by a microscopic amount. Don't worry about the album artwork, Subsonic processes it separately, so it will still appear in web views. Of course, don't add this to your video transcoder.
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[2014-03-04 19:09:37,118] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread - (/var/subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg) [swscaler @ 0x1cc44f0] deprecated pixel format used, make sure you did set range correctly
[2014-03-04 19:09:37,125] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread - (/var/subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg) [swscaler @ 0x1cc44f0] No accelerated colorspace conversion found from yuv420p to rgb24.
[2014-03-04 19:09:37,127] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread - (/var/subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg) [mp3 @ 0x1ccf170] Frame rate very high for a muxer not efficiently supporting it.
[2014-03-04 19:09:37,128] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread - (/var/subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg) Please consider specifying a lower framerate, a different muxer or -vsync 2
It never really hurt anything, but I don't like cluttered log files, so I tracked down the problem. When ffmpeg encounters a song with album artwork, it processes it as a video track, usually with MJPEG encoding. We can tell ffmpeg to ignore video tracks by adding -vn to the transcode settings, like this:
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ffmpeg -i %s -vn -ab %bk -v 0 -f mp3 -
This makes cleaner log files, reduces hard drive access, and might reduce CPU consumption by a microscopic amount. Don't worry about the album artwork, Subsonic processes it separately, so it will still appear in web views. Of course, don't add this to your video transcoder.