Question

I am getting an error while executing the command
ffmpeg -i /path/to/video.mp4 :

  ffmpeg version git-2012-07-24-93342de Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the FFmpeg developers
      built on Jul 24 2012 23:55:41 with gcc 4.4.3 (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5.1)
      configuration: --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libx264 --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc --enable-swscale --enable-vdpau --enable-version3 --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-x11grab
      libavutil      51. 65.100 / 51. 65.100
      libavcodec     54. 44.100 / 54. 44.100
      libavformat    54. 20.100 / 54. 20.100
      libavdevice    54.  2.100 / 54.  2.100
      libavfilter     3.  3.100 /  3.  3.100
      libswscale      2.  1.100 /  2.  1.100
      libswresample   0. 15.100 /  0. 15.100
      libpostproc    52.  0.100 / 52.  0.100
    [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x2a1b240] Could not find codec parameters for stream 0 (Video: h264 (avc1 / 0x31637661), 1280x720): unspecified pixel format
    Consider increasing the value for the 'analyzeduration' and 'probesize' options
    /path/to/video.mp4: could not find codec parameters

Answer 1

Adjust -probesize and/or -analyzeduration.

The files I was testing were in fact damaged. But if anyone faces this problem, setting -probesize and -analyzeduration to 100 and 10000000 for example might help.

From a popular comment by @DiverseAndRemote.com

my solution was

ffmpeg -analyzeduration 2147483647 -probesize 2147483647 -i /path/to/video.mp4 

2147483647 is max_int