Black and White?

[haderach]

I just used ffmpegX to convert an .avi file to VIDEO_TS. I used dvd-hibitrate, decoded with Quicktime. Everything was fine, I played the VIDEO_TS folder and it looked great, but when i burnt it (Toast) it was in black and white when i played it in my set top player. I tried again decoding with mplayer and ffmpeg got stuck. the last thing the output said was "System is big endian" Any suggestions?

[major]

Try again playing the burned disk with VLC. Does it play in color?

[haderach]

Yes it does.

[major]

Then the video is in color. Did you never got any similar issue before with your player?

[haderach]

Nope, no other problems. its in color until its on a disc in my player. its changed the screen size too (WAS widescreen, not anymore) heres the file -

VIDEO: mpeg4, 688x288, 25.00 fps. AUDIO: mp3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 143 kb/s

[major]

VIDEO: mpeg4, 688x288, 25.00 fps. AUDIO: mp3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 143 kb/s

Please also send such information for the encoded VIDEO_TS folder.

[haderach]

VIDEO: mpeg-2, size: 720x576, 25.000 fps, 4000 kbps. AUDIO: ac3, 48000Hz, 448 kbps


there ya go. thanks for the help major.

[major]

Your TV set is NTSC or PAL?

[haderach]

Im pretty sure its NTSC (since i live in North America) but it usually handles PAL discs no problem.

[major]

You could try to force encoding to NTSC to see if it is the cause of your problem.

[haderach]

No dice...

**ERROR: [mpeg2enc] Sample rate is greater than permitted in specified Level

[major]

You need also to resize to 720x480 when encoding NTSC.

[haderach]

That seemed to do the trick. Thanks major.