Referenced QT chapter track not found

Classification

Validator	Validator version	Error message type
ffmpeg

File format	Version	Specification	Description	Location
video/quicktime

Analyses

Analysis

The repair add the following line to the ffmpeg output: ‘Guessed Channel Layout: stereo.’ The markers to the unexisting chapter are probably removed. The error message does not prevent playing the streams. The message could possibly be also ignored.

Is it a bug in the validating software? -

Possible solutions

Recreate file with automatically selected audio and video streams

The suggestion

Copy automatically selected audio and video streams and copy ‘global metadata’ to the new file.

Execution

ffmpeg -i <input file>.MOV -c:v copy -c:a copy -map_metadata 0 <output file>.MOV

Tested with: FFmpeg 6.0

Effects

The selected audio and video streams are copied along with top-level metadata (-map_metadata 0) to the output file.

The automatic selection principles are described in FFmpeg’s documentation: https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html#Automatic-stream-selection

Justification

The file contains single audio and video streams.

Migrated files

Output example

"[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x56204e0c9500] Referenced QT chapter track not found\\n[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x56204e0c9500] stream 1, offset 0xd2000d8: partial file\\n[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x56204e0c9500] stream 1, offset 0xd2010d8: partial file\\n[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x56204e0c9500] stream 1, offset 0xd2020d8: partial file

Notes on the error

Related errors by source files

ffmpeg: Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0:
ffmpeg: Referenced QT chapter track not found
mediainfo:      File contains a truncated track

Notice: any operation suggested on this page should be carefully considered before use, as this article is in continuous development.