Originally, I wanted to use the quicktime decoder to burn subs while I convert an .avi file to h.264 on visualhub, but the problem is that the video of the .avi is not compable with quicktime. The video of the .avi file is apparently Dix 3.11. The video becomes a black screen when I try to open it with quicktime, although the audio works. My question is that is there a way so I can play the .avi on quicktime properly?
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install Perian instead of DivX (in fact you can keep DivX codec in your Library)
(DivX is a commercial company , they desactivated playback of some DivX 3 to avoid compatibility with Xvid -the free codec)
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I have the latest perian 1.1 installed. When I tried to burn subs through "force quicktime decoding" while converting an avi to h.264 in visualhub, the resulting file has a black screen with audio and subs working.
Later, I found out that quicktime can't play the video of that avi. When I try to open the avi in quicktime player, the same thing happened. Black screen with only audio. I figure if I can somehow get quicktime to play the avi properly, I should be able to use quicktime decoding to burn subs on visualhub. -
AVI
Video: msmpeg4, yuv420p, 640x352
Audio: mp3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 96 kb/s
That is the read out for ffmpegx under the "from" category when I dropped the file. It looks about right unless there is a better way to find out the specs of the avi are.
When I try to play it in quicktime and open "movie inspector", it says
Format: DivX 3.11, 640 x 352, Millions
MPEG Layer 3, Stereo, 48.000 kHz
FPS: 29.97
Data Rate: 1685.67 kbits/s
Size: 640 x 352 pixels -
Sounds like it is using Microsoft's Mpeg-4 codec,
a nasty piece of work that tries to (half heartledly) mimic divx 3.
Can VLC Play it?
Can VLC play it w/subtitles?
if so, I'd just use iShowU to "hijack" and record me a clean
copy in DV Stream, which will be (a) having the subtitles burned in,
and (b) WIDELY COMPATIBLE for me to do whatever I want to do with it.
Drawback: $20 ( price of iShowU), and you record in real time while it plays in VLC.
Upside: once it's done, it's done, no more fooling with codecs."Everyone has to learn, so that they can one day teach."
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Originally Posted by terryj
Does the Mac version of DivX handle DivX 3.11-encoded video? I'd test it myself, but I don't have any DivX 3.1-encoded videos available.If cameras add ten pounds, why would people want to eat them? -
Can VLC Play it?
Can VLC play it w/subtitles?
So I can play it on VLC and "hijack" it with the subs. What is the output file type available for IshowU? Does it resulting file have the same size and quality as the stream it hijacks?
Also, do you think it is worth the $20 for IshowU? And what other kind of applications can you use IshowU for? The ability to hijack streams sounds interesting. The money and watching it thing is a non-issue if the program is worth it. -
For me,it is well worth the $20.
I use it to:
* hijack FLVs from the web and record them to DV Stream for use in FCP
* hijack h.264 MKVs that would take longer to transcode to mp4
for iPod,and just record them to mp4 quickly ge them onto an iPod
* hijack avi's w/Subtitles from VLC and record them to DV Stream,
which I can then drag/drop into Toast and make DVDs out of.
The quality is great, and you can adjust as necessary to "fine tune it" past the defaults.
the file type formats it records to are DV Stream, or whatever codecs
you have in Quicktime. With WMV Studio installed , I can record directly
from iShowU to .wmv, or Quicktime movie w/Apple Motion Jpeg-A,
for HQ movie files."Everyone has to learn, so that they can one day teach."
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Urban Mac User -
hmm...IshowU sounds great. I should definitely a try. Just an update, while I was messing around with my applications, it seems like FFmpegX solved both my problems. It burned the subs in the way I want it and converted the messy .avi file into AVI DivX so that I could run it though VisualHub (which it couldn't before) to be compressed into a relatively small, high quality video with hardsubs.
Thanks for all the help and suggestions.
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