6 GB Vob to h.264 only converts 164MB of movie

[MCeeP]

Greetings,

I'm trying to convert the marriage of my cousin from a VOB to h.264 using the 640x480 ipod video profile.

I pulled the vob using MTR, and used the title only option so I would have one complete VOB file with the entire movie. I checked the VOB file using MPEG Streamer, and it's complete, and approx. 6GB in size. Whenever I try to convert it to h.264 640w, the program goes through to 100%, dings, and when I look at the mp4 file it created, it's only about 160MB. When I play the file in Quicktime, at 11:45, the video goes white and the audio continues. You can click through the movie and the entire audio is there through to the end, but the video stays white.

I have it set using all the defaults, following the instructions here:

http://www.ffmpegx.com/ipodh264hires.html

Here is my log file for this conversion if it helps:

movtoy4m
Copyright 2002-2006 Johan Lindstr??m
All rights reserved..
Tue Oct 10 23:19:53 PDT 2006
x264 [info]: using SAR=1000/1001
x264 [info]: using cpu capabilities MMX MMXEXT SSE SSE2
mp4 [info]: initial delay 0 (scale 24000)
x264 [info]: slice I:85 Avg QP:16.42 size: 12997 PSNR Mean Y:51.22 U:52.20 V:52.99 Avg:51.61 Global:49.17
x264 [info]: slice P:16819 Avg QP:18.68 size: 4072 PSNR Mean Y:49.07 U:50.55 V:51.26 Avg:49.54 Global:45.50
x264 [info]: mb I I16..4: 60.8% 0.0% 39.2%
x264 [info]: mb P I16..4: 8.8% 0.0% 3.8% P16..4: 36.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% skip:51.3%
x264 [info]: final ratefactor: 19.05
x264 [info]: PSNR Mean Y:49.082 U:50.558 V:51.273 Avg:49.548 Global:45.509 kb/s:789.72
encoded 16904 frames, 24.07 fps, 789.76 kb/s
FFmpeg version CVS, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
Mac OSX universal build for ffmpegX
configuration: --enable-memalign-hack --enable-mp3lame --enable-gpl --disable-vhook --disable-ffplay --disable-ffserver --enable-a52 --enable-xvid --enable-faac --enable-faad --enable-amr_nb --enable-amr_wb --enable-pthreads --enable-x264
libavutil version: 49.0.0
libavcodec version: 51.9.0
libavformat version: 50.4.0
built on Apr 15 2006 04:58:19, gcc: 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5250)
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '/Volumes/Video/need converted/Matrix Title 1/VIDEO_TS/Matrix Title 1.VOB.ff.video.mp4':
Duration: 00:11:45.0, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 790 kb/s
Stream #0.0(und), 23.98 fps(r): Video: h264, yuv420p, 640x352
Input #1, mpeg, from '/Volumes/Video/need converted/Matrix Title 1/VIDEO_TS/Matrix Title 1.VOB':
Duration: 01:03:43.8, start: 0.280633, bitrate: 14336 kb/s
Stream #1.0[0x1e0], 29.97 fps(r): Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 720x480, 9800 kb/s
Stream #1.1[0x80]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5:1, 448 kb/s
Stream #1.2[0x81]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5:1, 448 kb/s
Stream #1.3[0x82]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 128 kb/s
Stream #1.4[0x83]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 128 kb/s
Stream #1.5[0x84]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 128 kb/s
Output #0, mp4, to '/Volumes/Video/need converted/Matrix Title 1/VIDEO_TS/Matrix Title 1.VOB.ff.audio.mp4':
Stream #0.0: Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, stereo, 96 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #1.1 -> #0.0 [sync #0.0]
Press [q] to stop encoding
video:0kB audio:95831kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 3.125664%

IsoMedia import - track ID 1 - Audio (SR 48000 - 2 channels)

Saving /Volumes/Video/need converted/Matrix Title 1/VIDEO_TS/Matrix Title 1.VOB.ff.mp4: 0.500 secs Interleaving

Adding iPod atoms..
Encoding completed on Tue Oct 10 23:51:37 PDT 2006



Any advice?
Thanks!

[major]

Is Quicktime Player able to play the VOB until the end?

[MCeeP]

yup, quicktime was. I did manage to get a good full encode today by deselecting the "decode with quicktime" though. not sure what the difference is, but perhaps something to investigate?

I do have quicktime Pro with the mpeg-2 pack installed also.


On the props side, this is a great program, and now that I can get it goin it did a terrific job with this movie. Just that little bug is one to look at.

and because too much info is always better than not enough, here's the log file that I got when I encoded the exact same VOB as before, this time with "decode with quicktime" deselected:

Encoding started on Wed Oct 11 06:56:10 PDT 2006
FFmpeg version CVS, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
Mac OSX universal build for ffmpegX
configuration: --enable-memalign-hack --enable-mp3lame --enable-gpl --disable-vhook --disable-ffplay --disable-ffserver --enable-a52 --enable-xvid --enable-faac --enable-faad --enable-amr_nb --enable-amr_wb --enable-pthreads --enable-x264
libavutil version: 49.0.0
libavcodec version: 51.9.0
libavformat version: 50.4.0
built on Apr 15 2006 04:58:19, gcc: 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5250)
x264 [info]: using SAR=1000/1001
x264 [info]: using cpu capabilities MMX MMXEXT SSE SSE2
mp4 [info]: initial delay 0 (scale 24000)
Input #0, mpeg, from '/Volumes/Video/need converted/Matrix Title 1/VIDEO_TS/Matrix Title 1.VOB':
Duration: 01:03:43.8, start: 0.280633, bitrate: 14336 kb/s
Stream #0.0[0x1e0], 29.97 fps(r): Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 720x480, 9800 kb/s
Stream #0.1[0x80]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5:1, 448 kb/s
Stream #0.2[0x81]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5:1, 448 kb/s
Stream #0.3[0x82]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 128 kb/s
Stream #0.4[0x83]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 128 kb/s
Stream #0.5[0x84]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 128 kb/s
Output #0, yuv4mpegpipe, to 'pipe:':
Stream #0.0, 23.98 fps(c): Video: rawvideo, yuv420p, 640x352, q=2-31, 200 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Press [q] to stop encoding
video:0kB audio:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead inf%
x264 [info]: slice I:1059 Avg QP:18.06 size: 18975 PSNR Mean Y:47.57 U:49.16 V:50.05 Avg:48.10 Global:47.27
x264 [info]: slice P:195012 Avg QP:20.95 size: 4127 PSNR Mean Y:45.36 U:47.57 V:48.38 Avg:46.01 Global:44.91
x264 [info]: mb I I16..4: 51.3% 0.0% 48.7%
x264 [info]: mb P I16..4: 8.2% 0.0% 4.0% P16..4: 40.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% skip:47.1%
x264 [info]: final ratefactor: 20.11
x264 [info]: PSNR Mean Y:45.370 U:47.580 V:48.388 Avg:46.025 Global:44.919 kb/s:807.06
encoded 196071 frames, 24.57 fps, 807.10 kb/s
FFmpeg version CVS, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
Mac OSX universal build for ffmpegX
configuration: --enable-memalign-hack --enable-mp3lame --enable-gpl --disable-vhook --disable-ffplay --disable-ffserver --enable-a52 --enable-xvid --enable-faac --enable-faad --enable-amr_nb --enable-amr_wb --enable-pthreads --enable-x264
libavutil version: 49.0.0
libavcodec version: 51.9.0
libavformat version: 50.4.0
built on Apr 15 2006 04:58:19, gcc: 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5250)
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '/Volumes/Video/converted/The_Matrix.video.mp4':
Duration: 02:16:17.7, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 807 kb/s
Stream #0.0(und), 23.98 fps(r): Video: h264, yuv420p, 640x352
Input #1, mpeg, from '/Volumes/Video/need converted/Matrix Title 1/VIDEO_TS/Matrix Title 1.VOB':
Duration: 01:03:43.8, start: 0.280633, bitrate: 14336 kb/s
Stream #1.0[0x1e0], 29.97 fps(r): Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 720x480, 9800 kb/s
Stream #1.1[0x80]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5:1, 448 kb/s
Stream #1.2[0x81]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5:1, 448 kb/s
Stream #1.3[0x82]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 128 kb/s
Stream #1.4[0x83]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 128 kb/s
Stream #1.5[0x84]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 128 kb/s
Output #0, mp4, to '/Volumes/Video/converted/The_Matrix.audio.mp4':
Stream #0.0: Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, stereo, 96 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #1.1 -> #0.0 [sync #0.0]
Press [q] to stop encoding
video:0kB audio:95831kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 3.125664%

IsoMedia import - track ID 1 - Audio (SR 48000 - 2 channels)

Saving /Volumes/Video/converted/The_Matrix.mp4: 0.500 secs Interleaving

Adding iPod atoms..
Encoding completed on Wed Oct 11 09:39:35 PDT 2006

[major]

If this second encode was good, then the problem is in Quicktime, which always had problems in decoding big mpeg-2 files.