For Issue1933 (feature request https://roundup.ffmpeg.org/issue1933). "small-00000.ssif" (10MB) - cutted from the "00000.ssif" (423.6MB) This is the SSIF sample file (StereoScopic Interleaved File) contains two video streams. One of them is not full and linked to 'main' videostream. Current FFMPEG version doesn't allow to decode such additional streams (SSIF could contains several additional video streams). This also known as MVC (MultiVideoCodec). The sample sources for decoding such MVC streams I found here (people use it for decoding unpacked streams): http://iphome.hhi.de/suehring/tml/ $ wine ffmpeg.exe -v 9 -loglevel 99 -i 00000.ssif &> log.txt FFmpeg version git-925e396, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers built on May 11 2010 01:51:01 with gcc 4.4.2 configuration: --enable-shared --disable-static --enable-memalign-hack --enable-avfilter --enable-avfilter-lavf --enable-hardcoded-tables --enable-bzlib --disable-libopenjpeg --enable-w32threads --enable-zlib --enable-cross-compile --target-os=mingw32 --cross-prefix=i686-mingw32- --arch=x86_32 --enable-swscale --disable-debug --enable-version3 libavutil 50.15. 2 / 50.15. 2 libavcodec 52.67. 0 / 52.67. 0 libavformat 52.62. 0 / 52.62. 0 libavdevice 52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0 libavfilter 1.20. 0 / 1.20. 0 libswscale 0.10. 0 / 0.10. 0 [NULL @ 00131ab0]Probed with size=2048 and score=100 [mpegts @ 00131ab0]stream=0 stream_type=20 pid=1012 prog_reg_desc=HDMV [mpegts @ 00131ab0]probing stream 0 Last message repeated 17 times [mpegts @ 00131ab0]stream=1 stream_type=1b pid=1011 prog_reg_desc=HDMV [mpegts @ 00131ab0]stream=2 stream_type=81 pid=1100 prog_reg_desc=HDMV [mpegts @ 00131ab0]probing stream 0 Last message repeated 34 times [mpegts @ 00131ab0]MAX_READ_SIZE:5000000 reached Input #0, mpegts, from '00000.ssif': Duration: 00:01:20.44, start: 11.692700, bitrate: 44174 kb/s Program 1 Stream #0.0[0x1012], 26, 1/90000: Data: HDMV / 0x564D4448 Stream #0.1[0x1011], 17, 1/90000: Video: h264, yuv420p, 1920x1080 [PAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 1001/48000, 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 90k tbn, 47.95 tbc Stream #0.2[0x1100], 1, 1/90000: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 224 kb/s At least one output file must be specified