VLC 3.0.4 transcode error: Unsupported pixel size 0 (chroma CVPN)

[cmr0n]

I have 12 *.mov files that I recorded this week with my iPhone. The codec is hvec (H.265). They all play fine in VLC 3.0.4 on my MacBook. I would like to upload them to Facebook, so I'm converting them to H.264 that Facebook supports. 2 of the 12 failed with the same error when I tried to convert them:

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Camerons-MacBook-Pro:Takeout cameron$ filename=IMG_3193 Camerons-MacBook-Pro:Takeout cameron$ vlc -I rc $filename.MOV --avcodec-hw=none --sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264}:std{access=file,mux=mp4,dst=$filename.m4v}" vlc://quit VLC media player 3.0.4 Vetinari (revision 3.0.4-0-gf615db6332) [00007fecb5467e20] [cli] lua interface: Listening on host "*console". VLC media player 3.0.4 Vetinari Command Line Interface initialized. Type `help' for help. > [00007fecb551e4d0] videotoolbox generic: Using Video Toolbox to decode 'hevc' [00007fecb551eae0] x264 encoder: using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 SSE4.2 AVX FMA3 AVX2 LZCNT BMI2 [00007fecb551eae0] x264 encoder: profile High, level 4.0 [00007fecb551e4d0] videotoolbox generic: vt cvpx chroma: 420v [00007fecb554d950] transform filter error: Unsupported pixel size 0 (chroma CVPN) [00007fecb5406620] main filter error: Failed to create video filter 'transform' [00007fecb554f070] transform filter error: Format change is not allowed [00007fecb5406620] main filter error: Failed to create video filter 'transform' [00007fecb54799f0] main stream out error: Failed to create video converter [00007fecb551e4d0] videotoolbox generic error: decoder failure, Abort. [00007fecb5485b50] main decoder error: cannot continue streaming due to errors with codec hevc [00007fecb575aad0] idummy demux: command `quit' [00007fecb5467e20] [cli] lua interface error: Error loading script /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/lua/intf/cli.luac: ...kage/macosx/../../../share/lua/intf/modules/host.lua:289: Interrupted.

These forum threads may be related:

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[00000205f7a01430] transform filter error: Unsupported pixel size 0 (chroma DX11)

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Disable hardware decoding, and try again.