The warning is repeated forever, 1 per second, and pollues the logs without any added value compared to one warning for the whole stream. Before: $ ./ffmpeg -y -f lavfi -i testsrc=duration=10:size=8000x8000 -c:v ffv1 -level 3 test.mkv [...] [ffv1 @ 0x560605332f00] Cannot allocate worst case packet size, the encoding could fail [ffv1 @ 0x560605332f00] Cannot allocate worst case packet size, the encoding could fail [ffv1 @ 0x560605332f00] Cannot allocate worst case packet size, the encoding could faild=0.0266x [ffv1 @ 0x560605332f00] Cannot allocate worst case packet size, the encoding could faild=0.0399x Last message repeated 1 times [ffv1 @ 0x560605332f00] Cannot allocate worst case packet size, the encoding could faild=0.0638x Last message repeated 1 times [ffv1 @ 0x560605332f00] Cannot allocate worst case packet size, the encoding could faileed=0.0797x Last message repeated 1 times [ffv1 @ 0x560605332f00] Cannot allocate worst case packet size, the encoding could faileed=0.0911x Last message repeated 8 timeses frame= 17 fps=2.8 q=-0.0 Lsize= 15616KiB time=00:00:00.68 bitrate=188126.9kbits/s speed=0.112x After: $ ./ffmpeg -y -f lavfi -i testsrc=duration=10:size=8000x8000 -c:v ffv1 -level 3 test.mkv [...] [ffv1 @ 0x55acab29ef00] Cannot allocate worst case packet size, the encoding could fail frame= 25 fps=2.5 q=-0.0 Lsize= 26368KiB time=00:00:01.00 bitrate=216006.7kbits/s speed=0.101x