problems converting rmvb files

[Kavelian]

Hi there,

Trying to convert .rmvb into .mpeg to watch on Tivo.
Pretty sure I installed erything: mplayer, mencoder and mpeg2enc.intel files
Copied perian files into /library/application support/ffmpegx

Here's the message:

INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler 1.9.0 (15-02-2004) is a general scaling utility for yuv frames
Thu Apr 10 01:18:45 PDT 2008
++ WARN: [mpeg2enc] MPEG bitrate must be a multiple of 400 - rounding up
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING AltiVec for MOTION!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING AltiVec for TRANSFORM!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING AltiVec for PREDICTION!
INFO: [yuvscaler] (C) 2001-2004 Xavier Biquard <xbiquard@free.fr>, yuvscaler -h for help, or man yuvscaler
movtoy4m
Copyright 2002-2006 Johan Lindström
All rights reserved..
ERROR: Could not open movie: /Volumes/External/TV shows/Crippled/Crippled Avengers.rmvb
**ERROR: [yuvscaler] Could'nt read YUV4MPEG header!
**ERROR: [mpeg2enc] Could not read YUV4MPEG2 header: system error (failed read/write)!

The .rmvb file reads perfectly with real player.

Thanks for the Help.

[tomlee59]

I don't know if this is your problem, but try removing the spaces in your pathname ("TV shows" to "TV_shows", etc). That might help (and it won't hurt). Mpeg2enc with mplayer as decoder doesn't like spaces.

[Case]

Copied perian files into /library/application support/ffmpegx

Perhaps you meant Reallib instead of Perian?

The .rmvb file reads perfectly with real player.

To test your reallibs install, open a RealVideo file in ffmpegX and click "Play". If you see the movie, then the install is successful.

[Kavelian]

Copied perian files into /library/application support/ffmpegx

Perhaps you meant Reallib instead of Perian?

The .rmvb file reads perfectly with real player.

To test your reallibs install, open a RealVideo file in ffmpegX and click "Play". If you see the movie, then the install is successful.

Reallib does not work.
I copied the unziped files to /library/application support/ffmpegx
I don't know what I did wrong.

[Case]

Reallib does not work.
I copied the unziped files to /library/application support/ffmpegx
I don't know what I did wrong.

1/ The reallib.zip from the link is for PowerPC Macs (G4/G5). There is a different one for Intel Macs (which is a bit harder to install).
2/ You should copy/move the whole reallib folder itself to /library/application support/ffmpegx, not just the content of the folder.

[Kavelian]

I downloaded the PowerPC reallib, copied the reallib folder to /library/application support/ffmpegx.

When I try to play the rmvb file, the application mplayer quits unexpectedly.

mmh?

[mactheknife]

Just to check, you are on the older PowerPC Macs instead of a newer Intel Mac right? Since you installed the PowerPC reallib...

Otherwise, you can use Penguin Encoder MP4, which you can download at Macupdate. It does not have the flexibility of ffMpegX, but it seems to be quite good at converting RMVB. As far as I know, it does not do MPEG so you can't watch the result on TIVO, but you can send it through ffMpegX the second time to do that. It's a pain, but rmvb has always been a painful format to work with

[Anicsi]

Hi there,

Trying to convert .rmvb into .mpeg to watch on Tivo.
Pretty sure I installed erything: mplayer, mencoder and mpeg2enc.intel files

Hello everybody! I've got the same problem than Kavelian. My ffmegX-Converter just doesn't want to convert my rmvb videos and I have no idea what the problem might be. (I did everything the same way he did)
I can pull the video into the converter, but when I press "play" I can only hear the audio without a picture.

@Case: Well, I've got an Intel Mac but downloaded the reallib.zip you posted here. Maybe it's because it doesnt work with intel macs, but i couldnt find another reallib download anywhere. (I looked at the mplayer site, but i couldnt find any reallib download-link for intel macs there...)
I really don't know what to do. Maybe I could download the other program you mentioned here (Penguin encoder) but I don't want to install that many programs, especially if they aren't that useful.
My problem is that there are also some wmv videos I can't convert, so it would be great to have this problem with the ffmpeX resolved.
Well, hope you can help me, and sorry for my bad English

edit------

well, i'm gonna give you the failure information ir how you'd call it ^^"

wmv:

FIXME:Hardenabling SSE and SSE2 without detection
Mon Jun 9 20:27:27 CEST 2008
MEncoder dev-CVS-060307-04:23-4.0.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
Mac OSX static build for ffmpegX
CPU: Intel (Family: 6, Stepping: 6)
CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x9b3db4
ASF file format detected.
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.
Too many video packets in the buffer: (1088 in 8391520 bytes).
ASF: No audio stream found -> no sound.
VIDEO: [WMV3] 640x480 24bpp 1000.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:6 fourcc:0x33564D57 size:640x480 fps:1000.00 ftime:=0.0010
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
Opening video filter: [scale w=640 h=272]
================================================== ========================
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
================================================== ========================
Requested video codec family [wmv9dmo] (vfm=dmo) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Requested video codec family [wmvdmo] (vfm=dmo) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x33564D57.
xiting...

rmvb:

Encoding started on Mon Jun 9 20:31:17 CEST 2008
MEncoder dev-CVS-060307-04:23-4.0.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
Mac OSX static build for ffmpegX
FIXME:Hardenabling SSE and SSE2 without detection
CPU: Intel (Family: 6, Stepping: 6)
CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x5d0ab72
REAL file format detected.
Stream description: Audio Stream
Stream mimetype: audio/x-pn-realaudio
Stream description: Video Stream
Stream mimetype: video/x-pn-realvideo
Stream mimetype: logical-fileinfo
VIDEO: [RV40] 640x480 24bpp 23.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
Error: dlopen(/Library/Application Support/ffmpegX/reallib/drvc.so, 1): image not found
size:640x480 fps:23.00 ftime:=0.0435
================================================== ========================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 64.1 kbit/4.54% (ratio: 8010->176400)
Selected audio codec: [ffcook] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg COOK audio decoder)
================================================== ========================
xvid: using library version 1.2.-127 (build xvid-1.2.0-dev)
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Error: dlopen(/Library/Application Support/ffmpegX/reallib/drv4.so.6.0, 1): image not found
Error: dlopen(/Library/Application Support/ffmpegX/reallib/drvc.bundle/Contents/MacOS/drvc, 1): image not found
Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x30345652.
; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
Opening video filter: [scale w=640 h=272]
================================================== ========================
Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!
VDecoder init failed
Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!
VDecoder init failed
Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!
VDecoder init failed
Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!
VDecoder init failed
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
Exiting...

I just dont know what this stuff is supposed to mean Sometimes it's even like there's something in progress and it shows: progress finished (after what seems to be a millisecond) but the file has always a size of 0 kb...

[Case]

Well, I've got an Intel Mac but downloaded the reallib.zip you posted here. Maybe it's because it doesnt work with intel macs, but i couldnt find another reallib download anywhere. (I looked at the mplayer site, but i couldnt find any reallib download-link for intel macs there...)

1/ The ready-to-go PowerPC reallib download doesn't work on Intel.
2/ jpschuck described a way to get the Intel files for reallib. Careful reading and a bit more work, but it does work.

VIDEO: [WMV3] 640x480 24bpp 1000.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)

WMV3 video isn't supported in the current version.

VIDEO: [RV40] 640x480 24bpp 23.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)

You need the correct Reallib for your processor (Intel/PPC) to decode RV40 (Real Video).

[Anicsi]

@Case: Thank you very much! I installed the correct version of reallib, but it still doesn't work.
I requested help in the Topic you shew me.
That ffmpegX does not support WMV3 is weird, i just read at the Mplayer site, that it should support wmv files up to wmv9... But maybe I got something wrong, wouldn't be the first time ^^"

Do you have an idea if there's a possibility to install something additional to ffmpegX to get that fixed?
Thank you anyway for your help

[jpschuck]

That ffmpegX does not support WMV3 is weird, i just read at the Mplayer site, that it should support wmv files up to wmv9... But maybe I got something wrong, wouldn't be the first time ^^"

Unfortunately, only recent versions of mplayer support WMV3 (don't get misleaded : WMV3 is the fourCC code used for Windows Media 9 videos ; there is no WMV9 code). The version included in ffmpegX is now very old (2006...). As far as I know, you cannot replace it with the binary included in Mplayer for Mac OS X (the stand-alone app).

[MrRoarke]

I had exactly the same problem as Kavelian and Anicsi. It seems ffmpegX doesn't like the Real Alternative codec. After a bit of thought I simply tried changing the extension of the problem files from ".rmvb" to ".rm" and it seemed to solve the problem. No guarantees that it will work for anyone else but it did for me.

BTW, my first forum post !! Glad to be here

[Anicsi]

Yes, it worked for me as well jpschuck told me to change the extension (well, i had a weird one to be honest...)
But.... now I've got another problem
I could convert some of the .rmvb files, but now I have another issue with ffmpegX and I don't really understand why, as the videos are equal and have about the same size....
you can see the problem here

Does anybody now what this is supposed to mean and how I can fix it? I tried to convert one of the files I already converted into avi and it worked perfectly...

[jpschuck]

Does anybody now what this is supposed to mean and how I can fix it? I tried to convert one of the files I already converted into avi and it worked perfectly...

Most codecs included in ffmpegX require that the pixel height and width of your output file are multiple of 16, which 632 is not. Actually ffmpegX should print an explicit warning when this occurs, but I assume the german localization may be incomplete.
Try to downsize the width value to 624 (nearest multiple of 16) and see what happens. Don't forget to crop 4 pixels on the right and left sides under the "filter" tab : this will avoid a complete downscaling of the movie (which would require much more encoding time).