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  1. OK, I can't believe I am asking this question, but here goes.

    If I encode my video to MPEG2 Intra only using the following:

    Code:
    ffmpeg -i input -vcodec mpeg2video -pix_fmt yuv422p -q:v 1 -qmin 1 -intra -an output.m2v
    is there a way to mux this m2v with the audio stream of the input file? I have tried various methods but come up dry e.g.

    Code:
    ffmpeg -i input.m2v -vcodec copy -i input.wav -acodec copy output.mpg
    Kicks off a "Unknown decoder 'copy'" error.

    I want to bring the m2v into PP/AE and start editing. But unless I am missing something, having the video and audio demuxed makes for a very messy editing experience.
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  2. Code:
    ffmpeg -i input.m2v -i audio.wav -map 0:0 -map 1:0 -c:v copy -c:a copy output.mpg

    But you could have encoded the video & kept the audio (assuming you wanted to stream copy) in 1 step with -c:a copy . Or you could have encoded both in 1 step (assuming you wanted to re-encode the audio, replace -c:a copy with whatever)

    Code:
    ffmpeg -i input.ext -vcodec mpeg2video -pix_fmt yuv422p -q:v 1 -qmin 1 -intra -c:a copy output.mpg
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    mplex (from the MJPEG Tools package) is another option.
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    Originally Posted by SameSelf View Post
    OK, I can't believe I am asking this question, but here goes.

    If I encode my video to MPEG2 Intra only using the following:

    Code:
    ffmpeg -i input -vcodec mpeg2video -pix_fmt yuv422p -q:v 1 -qmin 1 -intra -an output.m2v
    is there a way to mux this m2v with the audio stream of the input file? I have tried various methods but come up dry e.g.

    Code:
    ffmpeg -i input.m2v -vcodec copy -i input.wav -acodec copy output.mpg
    Kicks off a "Unknown decoder 'copy'" error.

    I want to bring the m2v into PP/AE and start editing. But unless I am missing something, having the video and audio demuxed makes for a very messy editing experience.
    You must also be missing something, because editing demuxed/separate streams in PP/AE, etc is only slightly more than trivial. Drop your clips in the tracks, snap them to align sync, gang/group them and edit away. It takes longer to describe it than to do it.

    Scott
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  5. Poisondeathray: First of all, thank you. I suspected that I could have encoded the audio the first time around. But since I grabbed that command line from the web, I was hesitant to tweak it. Ffmpeg while extremely flexible can be finicky when dealing with certain codecs. Also, my input file is an avisynth script using QTGMC so it takes a really long time.

    Cornucopia: fwiw I ended up biting the bullet and working with the demuxed files in PP/AE anyway because the audio is 5.1 Dolby Stereo and even with poisondeathray's excellent suggestion on how to mux I still couldn't get it to work. My problem is I am too used to selecting in and out points from the source clip window and dragging them to the timeline. I need to spend some time learning how to edit directly in the timeline. So your advice is noted. Because I have a feeling that muxing is a bad idea anyhow.
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    Why not use tsmuxer to MUX it into a TS container? Simple, fast and accurate. TS is well supported in many video editors.
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  7. Originally Posted by racer-x View Post
    Why not use tsmuxer to MUX it into a TS container? Simple, fast and accurate. TS is well supported in many video editors.
    Arrogant response: I assumed if ffmpeg can't do it than nothing can
    Truthful response: never heard of TsMuxeR, but I will surely give it a try now, thanks racer-x
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  8. Whenever you want to test something with ffmpeg, and don't want to waste time encoding just to see if it will work or not, you can test a small clip

    Use
    Code:
     -t time in duration in hh:mm:ss notation
    to encode a small section, say 20 seconds. You can use -ss for start time
    e.g encode a 20 second clip from 1minute to 1minute 20seconds

    Code:
    ffmpeg -i input.avs -c:v mpeg2video -pix_fmt yuv422p -q:v 1 -qmin 1 -intra -c:a pcm_s16le -s 00:01:00 -t 00:00:20 -f mpegts output.ts
    Transport stream is a better idea for higher bitrates, because ffmpeg's MPEG2-Program Stream muxer is probably muxing using DVD bitrate parameters. FFmpeg has a decent transport stream muxer, but TSMuxer suggested above is probably better

    Often some containers or muxers produce something that Adobe (or other software ) don't like. So it's always good to do small test on the workflow first
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  9. Thanks for the ffmpeg code snippet. I guess the name of the game is try alternatives to see what works best. I initially used ffmpeg's yadif for deinterlacing but learned about avisynth's QTGMC. So I guess there is no one tool does it all. Learn to use them all and you will be better for it.
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