videos generated in draft mode, but otherwise I only get the poster image

[jack000]

videos generated in draft mode, but otherwise I only get the poster image

[Jack000]

this likely means that single-pass CRF coding with ffmpeg (used in draft mode) works, but 2-pass VBR did not. Did you get any ffmpeg errors?

try running the first pass in ffmpeg:

ffmpeg -loglevel info -y -i /your/video/file.mp4 -c:v libx264 -threads 0 -profile:v high -pix_fmt yuv420p -preset slow -b:v 5M -maxrate 10M -bufsize 10M -pass 1 -an -f mp4 /dev/null

this should generate several ffmpeg log files in your CWD.
I'm assuming you haven't changed the video presets, and it's trying to compile to h264 and vp8?

[mandeldl]

Thanks, you're correct this did generate some ffmpeg logs and I'll investigate. No, I hadn't changed any settings in the script file.

[Jack000]

so those log files are normal, they're a part of the 2-pass encode process. If they're empty that could indicate problems.

[davidbgk]

After a few hours trying to figure out what is going on with that same issue, I realized that it's because my video is portrait oriented and as such is excluded from the whole encoding thing with that line: https://github.com/Jack000/Expose/blob/master/expose.sh#L829

There is no error whatsoever and it works in draft mode because the check is not performed in that case. Is there a reason to that?