Some additional output. Note: once the flicker begins on one channel, only a restart of the program may! help to get rid of it. Until you change to often... [h264 @ 0x7fbc88003d40] mmco: unref short failure [00007fbc8410e640] avcodec decoder error: hardware acceleration picture allocation failed [h264 @ 0x7fbc88003d40] get_buffer() failed [h264 @ 0x7fbc88003d40] thread_get_buffer() failed [h264 @ 0x7fbc88003d40] decode_slice_header error [h264 @ 0x7fbc88003d40] no frame! [h264 @ 0x7fbc88770c40] mmco: unref short failure [h264 @ 0x7fbc88770c40] number of reference frames (0+5) exceeds max (4; probably corrupt input), discarding one