ffmpeg encoding crashes when a video profile is set

[b005t3r]

When encoding with the new release, I get this error:

Error: [libx264 @ 0x7f9ec011f2c0] [Eval @ 0x309c69968] Undefined constant or missing '(' in 'high'

Error: [libx264 @ 0x7f9ec011f2c0] Unable to parse option value "high"

Error: [libx264 @ 0x7f9ec011f2c0] Error setting option profile to value high.

It looks like an issue with ffmpeg 7.1, but I'm not certain about that, wasn't able to reproduce with the command line static builds for macOS (7.1 and the one from 2024-11-15 both work with no issues, so maybe just a libav issue?), but definitelly everything worked fine with 1.5.10.

[b005t3r]

Update: it does work when setting the profile using a numerical value instead (tested "100" which is "high" for both h264_videotoolbox and libx264).

[b005t3r]

Another update: this trick with numerical values does not work for dnxhd for somre reason, which makes it impossible to select the dnxhr_hq profile, which in turn makes it impossible to encode anything about 1080p.

I think the best bet would be to build and older version of ffmpeg for the official release, as this is a pretty serious issue, however ideally still something 7.x, because 6.x (used in 1.5.10) had another major issue with ProRes (transparency didn't work on the most recent macOS).

[saudet]

Please try with this patch: HandBrake/HandBrake#6340 (comment)