[x264-devel] Found NALU with forbidden_bit set

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 7:33 AM, declan harrison
<harrison.declan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jason
>
> Thanks for your input, much appreciated.  I have no real knowledge of
> the H264 internals, though I have been reading up on some specific
> areas related to NALs, extradat etc.
>
> Its just that this error is reported by H264Visa  at the same point in
> the video were VLC bombs out of playing it back.  VLC debug error is
> "AVC: nal size -1706550745".  Is this purely coincidental?

In that case, you might have other problems (corruption, etc) causing
that error.  It's likely not related to x264.  x264 does not produce
streams that VLC cannot play back.  More likely it's a muxing issue.

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