Help to get a file working plz

[Midi3e]

Greetings,

i have a file produced with the Alchemy TV card (Apple intermed + PCM audio) which i am unable to encode to h264.mp4

Maybe you help me out

http://www.michaeldicker.com/privat/ffmpegx/HSTEST.mov (1MB)

<edited because of lack of info>

First, it does not recognize the file well. Wrong size, aspect and length.
Is that the reason for failings that it does not recog Apple intermed codec?



Encoding started on Sat Dec 10 20:49:13 CET 2005
MEncoder dev-CVS-051126-18:35-3.3 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
Mac OSX static build for ffmpegX
AltiVec found
CPU: PowerPC
Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x646F6369.
success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0xe600c
ISO: File Type Major Brand: Original QuickTime
Quicktime/MOV file format detected.
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MOV track #0: 3 chunks, 10 samples
Image size: 752 x 572 (24 bpp)
Display size: 752 x 572
Fourcc: doci Codec: 'Apple Intermediate Codec'
--------------
MOV track #1: 3 chunks, 0 samples
Audio bits: 16 chans: 2 rate: 48000
Fourcc: sowt
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VIDEO: [icod] 752x572 24bpp 25.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:7 fourcc:0x646F6369 size:752x572 fps:25.00 ftime:=0.0400
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
Opening video filter: [scale w=752 h=568]
Opening video filter: [pp=0x33]
Opening video filter: [harddup]
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Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
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Exiting...



Interesting thing is, if i encode it to xvid .avi with mp3 audio the file is recognized.

Encoding started on Sat Dec 10 20:56:34 CET 2005
movtoy4m
Copyright 2002-2005 Johan Lindstr??m
All rights reserved. Used in ffmpegX under license.
2005-12-10 20:56:35.009 movtoy4m[12744] CFLog (21): Error loading /Library/QuickTime/LiveType.component/Contents/MacOS/LiveType: error code 4, error number 0 (Library not loaded: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/LiveType.framework/Versions/A/LiveType
Referenced from: /Library/QuickTime/LiveType.component/Contents/MacOS/LiveType
Reason: image not found)
Input #0, yuv4mpegpipe, from 'pipe:':
Duration: N/A, bitrate: N/A
Stream #0.0: Video: rawvideo, yuv420p, 752x568, 25.00 fps
Output #0, avi, to '/Users/MediaLabs/Desktop/3.avi.e.avi':
Stream #0.0: Video: xvid, 752x568, 25.00 fps, q=2-15, 960 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
bench: utime=0.312s
video:126kB audio:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 3.745077%
Mac OSX static build for ffmpegX
/Library/WebServer/Documents/privat/ffmpegx/HSTEST.mov: could not find codec parameters




Tia
Michael

[Midi3e]

I have tested the file a bit more and it seems to be a mencoder "problem".

ffmpeg as codec works, mencoder not.

It works choosing any possible ffmpeg option and .avi as container


Hope that helps for "bugfixing"

Michael

[Midi3e]

Any help with the testfile is very welcome.

[Midi3e]

After 2 Weeks testing and trieing i give up.

I looks like ffmpegX cant encode this file
"APPLE Intermed. Codec" to h264.

[macr0t0r]

Ave you tried the "decode with Quicktime" option in the "Options" tab?

[Midi3e]

Hi,


there is NO "decode with Quicktime"
Option if you encode to h.264.

Thanks

[macr0t0r]

? Er, that can't be right. (Fiddles with FFMPEGX).
Ah, you are using the H.264(mencoder) encoder. Frankly, I wouldn't trust it anyway. There have been many reports of lip-sync problems with it, and it's not iPod-compatible anyway. Use the H.264(x264) encoder instead. It's more compatible, robust, and it allows decoding with Quicktime.

Any particular reason you want to use the mencoder encoder?

[Midi3e]

Hi macr0t0r,

yes yes used mencoder because ... uhmmmm. Eyesrolling and whistleing.

Ohhkay, thanks