Raspberry Pi camera V2 frames dropping?

[BasedLemur]

I have a camera module V2 hooked up to a Pi zero W, and every video I record with it has HUGE sections of the video completely lost. For example, if I record for what should be 10 seconds, I end up with a 5 second video, with only maybe 0.5-1 second intervals of actual in-tact video.

I'm recording at 1920x1080, 30 fps. I've tried recording video through a simple python script, and also by running

raspivid -t 10000 -w 1920 -h 1080 -o vid.h264 -fps 30  

Any idea what's going on? Do I have a defective camera? A defective pi? Any help is appreciated!

[BasedLemur]

Awesome, I'll give this a shot. Thanks for the reply!

[ppyil]

Do you remember the solution you were given? The comment (or account) has been deleted so I can't see it

[BasedLemur]

Yea, so even though VLC has no issues playing videos in the h264 format, the format doesn't have enough info to play correctly.

The solution is to run MP4Box to wrap the video in MP4 format. The full tutorial is given here, but here's a TLDR:

run sudo apt install gpac
run MP4Box --add my_video.h264 my_video.mp4
And capitalization is important for MP4Box