no luck using ffmpegX

[digisam]

I have tried installing as directed including all the stable binaries stuff, but it sodesnt seem to work.

I set where the file i want to convert is and then where i want it

i choose the quick preset for dvd pal but it doesnt do anything, a terminal window opens but just says "encoding started at....." and the doesnt do anything more.

I want to convert a vob file so that i can use it in final cut pro and then reburn the dvd.

I have downloaded tons of these little programs which claim to do it but i am not having any luck. They all seem to fail of have errors on them.

It seems ffmpegx is the most comprehensive packages but i cant get it to work properly. I dont want to resize or split the movie.

The movie was burned in idvd which was edited in FCP, i have lost the original files and need to add a scene in the movie.

Any ideas?

I have quicktime pro and the mpeg2 playback thing, but when i open the vob in quicktime i get no audio.

thanks

ds

[major]

Post the terminal output, this should help me understand where is your problem.

[digisam]

Last login: Mon Jun 16 12:46:35 on ttyp1
pbpaste | sh
Welcome to Darwin!
[Roger:~] samturner% pbpaste | sh
Encoding started on Mon Jun 16 12:46:41 BST 2003
-f 5 -b 4000 -q 3 -B 260 -V 230 -a 2
INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler (version 1.7.0) is a general scaling utility for yuv frames
INFO: [yuvscaler] (C) 2001-2002 Xavier Biquard <xbiquard@free.fr>
INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler -h for help, or man yuvscaler
Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /sw/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /mplayer/share/locale


MPlayer dev-CVS-030215-20:31-3.1 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

AltiVec found
Reading config file etc/mplayer.conf: No such file or directory
Reading config file /Users/samturner/.mplayer/config
Reading /Users/samturner/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/Users/samturner/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading etc/codecs.conf: can't open 'etc/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Using built-in default codecs.conf
CommandLine: '-noframedrop' '-vo' 'yuv4mpeg' '-ao' 'pcm' '-waveheader' '-v' '-osdlevel' '0' '-dvd' '1' '-dvd-device' '/Users/samturner/Desktop/amsterdam.dvd.rip/VIDEO_TS' '-dvdangle' '1' '-aid' '128'
get_path('font/font.desc') -> '/Users/samturner/.mplayer/font/font.desc'
font: can't open file: /Users/samturner/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: share/font/font.desc
Using Unoptimized OnScreenDisplay
Using usleep() timing
get_path('input.conf') -> '/Users/samturner/.mplayer/input.conf'
Can't open input config file /Users/samturner/.mplayer/input.conf : No such file or directory
Can't open input config file etc/input.conf : No such file or directory
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config
get_path('DVD title 1.conf') -> '/Users/samturner/.mplayer/DVD title 1.conf'

Playing DVD title 1
libdvdread: Couldn't find device name.
Reading disc structure, please wait...
get_path('DVDKeys') -> '/Users/samturner/.mplayer/DVDKeys'
There are 6 titles on this DVD.
There are 1 chapters in this DVD title.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
get_path('DVDKeys') -> '/Users/samturner/.mplayer/DVDKeys'
get_path('DVDKeys') -> '/Users/samturner/.mplayer/DVDKeys'
DVD successfully opened.
[open] audio stream: 0 audio format: lpcm (stereo) language: unknown aid: 160
[open] number of audio channels on disk: 1.
[open] number of subtitles on disk: 0
DVD start cell: 0 pack: 0x0-0x5D14E
DVD start=0 end=381262
DVD Seek! lba=0x0 cell=0 packs: 0x0-0x5D14E
Angle-seek synced by cell/vob IDN search!
Checking for YUV4MPEG2
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0xf23440
ASF_check: not ASF guid!
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0xf23440
Checking for NuppelVideo
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0xf23440
Checking for REAL
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0xf23440
Checking for SMJPEG
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0xf23440
Searching demuxer type for filename DVD title 1 ext: (null)
Checking for MOV
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0xf23e00
Checking for VIVO
header block 1 size: 0
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0xf23e00
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0xf23e00
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0xf23e00
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0xf23e00
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0xf23e00
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0xf23e00
DVD Seek! lba=0x0 cell=0 packs: 0x0-0x5D14E
Angle-seek synced by cell/vob IDN search!
Checking for PVA
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0xf23e00
system stream synced at 0x0 (13)!
==> Found video stream: 0
MPEG-PS file format detected.
==> Found audio stream: 160

Too many video packets in the buffer: (4096 in 8269097 bytes).
Maybe you are playing a non-interleaved stream/file or the codec failed?
For AVI files, try to force non-interleaved mode with the -ni option.
ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: audio)
MPEG: No audio stream found -> no sound.
Searching for sequence header... OK!
VIDEO: MPEG2 720x576 (aspect 2) 25.00 fps 10000.0 kbps (1250.0 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:2 fourcc:0x10000002 size:720x576 fps:25.00 ftime:=0.0400
get_path('sub/') -> '/Users/samturner/.mplayer/sub/'
vo_yuv4mpeg: Using (default) progressive frame mode
================================================== ========================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES)
Trying filter chain: vo
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vop scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
SwScale params: -1 x -1 (-1=no scaling)
Trying filter chain: scale vo
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
VDecoder init failed
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder v2.0
libmpeg2: No accelerated IDCT transform found
libmpeg2: No accelerated motion compensation found
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
Trying filter chain: vo
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO Config (720x576->768x576,flags=0,'MPlayer',0x32315659)
VO: [yuv4mpeg] 720x576 => 768x576 Planar YV12
VO: Description: yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools (to "stream.yuv")
VO: Author: Robert Kesterson <robertk@robertk.com>
++ WARN: [mpeg2enc] Generating dummy SVCD scan-data offsets to be filled in by "vcdimager"
++ WARN: [mpeg2enc] If you're not using vcdimager you may wish to turn this off using -d
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG 1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
================================================== ========================
Audio: no sound
Freeing 0 unused audio chunks
Starting playback...
*** [vo] Allocating mp_image_t, 720x576x12bpp YUV planar, 622080 bytes
*** [vo] Allocating mp_image_t, 720x576x12bpp YUV planar, 622080 bytes
*** [vo] Allocating mp_image_t, 720x576x12bpp YUV planar, 622080 bytes
V: 2.0 46 27% 288% 0.0% 0 0 0%

[major]

The issue is arising from the PCM audio track. It should work with AC3. I will handle this case in the forthcoming versions. It seem to encode the video though, you can still convert the audio separately and then mux together video and audio.

[digisam]

sorry to be a pain

how do i do this?

i have started encoding the file with the "encode video" box unticked, and seeing what happens.

Is this right?

I am on a bit of a deadline, i am also trying to convert the file on a pc at the same time.

can i demux with ffmpegx?

thanks for your help

[major]

I don't have any pcm source to test, so I can only advise to use 0SEx to extract the audio track separately, convert it to WAV with something, then use the Mux tool of ffmpegX with the converted .m2v video and the .wav audio.