blender fails to encode audio in ogg theora

Project:Trisquel
Component:Programs
Category:bug report
Priority:normal
Assigned:upstream
Status:closed
Description

When I try to render an animation in Blender, based off of edited video sequences, it crashes if I select 'theora' for the audio codec. If I try 'mp3', i get an error, and blender doesn't crash. 'flac' works.

To test this quickly, open blender and scroll down on the right hand side, until you see a drop-down with 'PNG' selected. change it to 'Ogg Theora'. Then at the bottom of that pane, click to expand the 'encoding' section. Change 'audio codec:' from 'none' to 'theora'. then press ctrl-f12 to render an animation. Blender will then crash.

Here is the output of a gdb session with a backtrace at the end: I've elided messages about threads.

$ gdb blender
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...
Reading symbols from /usr/bin/blender...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/blender...done.
done.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/blender

...

Starting output to /tmp/0001-0250.ogg(ffmpeg)...
Using type=10, codec=31, audio_codec=86021,
video_bitrate=6000, audio_bitrate=192,
gop_size=18, autosplit=0
render width=960, render height=540
alloc video stream 0x7fffe4003460

...

Writing frame 1, render width=960, render height=540
Video Frame PTS: 0
Append frame 1 Time: 00:01.41

...

Writing frame 2, render width=960, render height=540
Video Frame PTS: 1
Append frame 2 Time: 00:01.30

...

Writing frame 3, render width=960, render height=540
Video Frame PTS: 2
blender: /build/buildd/libav-0.7.3/libavutil/mathematics.c:79: av_rescale_rnd: Assertion `c > 0' failed.

Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
[Switching to Thread 0x7fffde243700 (LWP 16967)]
0x00007ffff25653a5 in raise () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
(gdb) backtrace
#0 0x00007ffff25653a5 in raise () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#1 0x00007ffff2568b0b in abort () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#2 0x00007ffff255dd4d in __assert_fail () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#3 0x00007ffff2d20f74 in av_rescale_rnd (a=,
b=, c=, rnd=)
at /build/buildd/libav-0.7.3/libavutil/mathematics.c:79
#4 0x00007ffff31a1499 in oggvorbis_encode_frame (avccontext=0x7fffe45c4220,
packets=0x7fffe4635308 "", buf_size=16384, data=)
at /build/buildd/libav-0.7.3/libavcodec/libvorbis.c:212
#5 0x00007ffff32c9637 in avcodec_encode_audio (avctx=0x7fffe45c4220,
buf=, buf_size=, samples=)
at /build/buildd/libav-0.7.3/libavcodec/utils.c:655
#6 0x0000000000ad6f75 in write_audio_frame ()
at /build/buildd/blender-2.58-svn37702/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/writeffmpeg.c:119
#7 write_audio_frames (to_pts=0.083333333333333329)
at /build/buildd/blender-2.58-svn37702/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/writeffmpeg.c:876
#8 append_ffmpeg (rd=, frame=,
pixels=0x7fffd9bf9038, rectx=1431655765, recty=540, reports=0x208c118)
at /build/buildd/blender-2.58-svn37702/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/writeffmpeg.c:908
#9 0x000000000090b060 in do_write_image_or_movie (re=0x30a9588,
---Type to continue, or q to quit---
scene=0x1d30318, reports=0x208c118, name_override=0x0, mh=)
at /build/buildd/blender-2.58-svn37702/source/blender/render/intern/source/pipeline.c:2957
#10 0x000000000090e2c3 in RE_BlenderAnim (re=0x30a9588, bmain=0x1d013f8,
scene=0x1d30318, camera_override=0x0, lay=1, sfra=25862912, efra=250,
tfra=1, reports=0x208c118)
at /build/buildd/blender-2.58-svn37702/source/blender/render/intern/source/pipeline.c:3112
#11 0x00000000008960ea in render_startjob (rjv=,
stop=, do_update=, progress=)
at /build/buildd/blender-2.58-svn37702/source/blender/editors/render/render_internal.c:378
#12 render_startjob (rjv=, stop=,
do_update=, progress=)
at /build/buildd/blender-2.58-svn37702/source/blender/editors/render/render_internal.c:369
#13 0x00000000006a3a6a in do_job_thread (job_v=0x20924a8)
at /build/buildd/blender-2.58-svn37702/source/blender/windowmanager/intern/wm_jobs.c:243
#14 0x00007ffff7098efc in start_thread ()
from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
#15 0x00007ffff261259d in clone () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#16 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
(gdb)

Sat, 06/02/2012 - 23:48
Assigned to:anonymous» upstream

I believe you are experiencing this bug:

Blender Bug #27978 (Problem exporting OGG Theora-Vorbis video (and other audio codecs))

Tue, 06/19/2012 - 23:57
Status:active» closed

After the latest round of Trisquel 5.5 updates, I tested blender with ogg/theora and it did not crash. It appears to be fixed.

Wed, 06/20/2012 - 09:18
Status:closed» fixed
Wed, 07/04/2012 - 09:20
Status:fixed» closed

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.