Timelapse not generating, despite config.sh telling it to do so?

[loykastj]

After a night's imaging run, when I click on the Timelapse icon the next morning, it always tells me "There are no Timelapse for this day".

My setup is Raspberry Pi 4B w/ 4gb RAM (so running out of memory shouldn't be an issue), Raspbian Bullseye, RPiHQ cam.
The image preview on the Live View looks fine and it does record images all night long that all look appropriate, just the Timelapse itself is the only part missing.

Do I need to change the VCODEC? Thats the only thing I could think of.

Here are my settings:

########## Timelapse
# Set to "true" to generate a timelapse video at the end of each night.
TIMELAPSE="true"

# Set the resolution of the timelapse video (sizes must be EVEN numbers).
# 0 disables resize and uses the same resolution as the images.
TIMELAPSEWIDTH=0
TIMELAPSEHEIGHT=0

# Bitrate of the timelapse video.  Higher numbers will produce higher quality but larger files.
TIMELAPSE_BITRATE="2000k"

# Timelapse video Frames Per Second.
FPS=25

# Encoder for timelapse video. May be changed to use a hardware encoder or different codec.
VCODEC="libx264"

# Pixel format.
PIX_FMT=${PIX_FMT:-yuv420p}

# FFLOG determines the amount of log information displayed while creating a timelapse video.
# Set to "info" to see additional information if you are tuning the algorithm.
FFLOG="warning"

# While creating a timelapse video, a sequence of links to the images is created.
# Set to "true" to keep that sequence; set to "false" to have it deleted when done.
KEEP_SEQUENCE="false"

# Any additional timelapse parameters.  Run "ffmpeg -?" to see the options.
TIMELAPSE_EXTRA_PARAMETERS=""

# Set to "true" to upload timelapse video to your website at the end of each night.
UPLOAD_VIDEO="false"

[EricClaeys]

@loykastj Did you look at the Wiki page dedicated to Troubleshooting Timelapse issues?

[loykastj]

This is the error that I got: "x264 [error]: malloc of size 38600544 failed"

I changed my resolution down to 1920x1080 and increased swap to 1024, we'll see in the morning if that fixes it.

I'm using a Raspberry Pi HQ Camera. I would have thought the Pi 4B 4gb RAM model would have had enough horsepower to overcome any issues.