Trouble with Intel Media SDK: getting sample_encode programm started

[reisinger__andreas]

Hello,

I'm completely new to Intel Media SDK and I just tried to run the sample_encode programm with some instructions in the command line.

This is what I typed in:
sample_encode.exe h264 -i example.yuv -o example.h264 -w 1280 -h 1024 -u quality -sw

example.yuv is a file I downloaded from the internet just to test the sample.

And these are my errors:

[ERROR], sts=MFX_ERR_NULL_PTR(-2), CSmplBitstreamWriter::Init, m_fSource pointer is NULL at src\sample_utils.cpp:406

[ERROR], sts=MFX_ERR_NULL_PTR(-2), CEncodingPipeline::InitFileWriter,  failed at src\pipeline_encode.cpp:1178

[ERROR], sts=MFX_ERR_NULL_PTR(-2), CEncodingPipeline::InitFileWriters, InitFileWriter failed at src\pipeline_encode.cpp:1239

[ERROR], sts=MFX_ERR_NULL_PTR(-2), CEncodingPipeline::Init, InitFileWriters failed at src\pipeline_encode.cpp:1419

[ERROR], sts=MFX_ERR_NULL_PTR(-2), wmain, pPipeline->Init failed at src\sample_encode.cpp:1273
Frame number: 0
Encoding fps: -0

I also tried different files and always put them in the folder of the sample_encode.exe-file.

Do you know about these errors and is there any simple error I made?
Or are there any example files you would recommend me to test?
If you need more information please tell me!

Thank you very much for your help!
Andreas

Product version:
Intel Media SDK 2018 R2

Information about the platform I am building on:
OS: Windows 7 Enterprise 64 Bit
Processor: Intel Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3,40GHz
graphic driver: NVIDIA Quadro 2000, version: 9.18.13.2078

[Mark_L_Intel1]

Hi Andreas,

This looks like a file I/O problem, not related to the sample. Could you double check if your application has right to the directory or simply re-target to different directory?

Mark