Hi,
I've been using VMware fusion 5, 6 and 7 to run video encoding. I've built my setup from source for FFMPEG in Ubuntu 12 and 14 with the same result.
Symptoms:
When running encodes that take a long time (ie, > 10 hours or so of encoding), FFMPEG will exit normally but it's output files are garbage, they will not play. This happens 90% of the time, 10% will finish successfully. If the video is short and the encoding takes about an hour, it will be fine and playback normally.
VMware Fusion 5:
All encodes behave normally, and work 100% of the time, even if long running
VMware 6 and 7:
Symptoms described above, with almost all failures.
Is there some setting that could be causing this? I've gone back and re-built the same virtual machines from scratch on VMware 5 VMs and it works normally, the bug appears to be with VMware fusion 6 and higher, I am not sure how to solve the problem!
Thanks for any advice!