X264 - Divx HD or something that will play on my Kiss DP-600

[potatoprince]

Hi all,

This is my first post to the forum, and Im not too sure of what to put in here to explain what i need to do. I got hold of a Kiss DP-600 Hi Def player from work recently and can see it plays formats such as Divx HD, WMV, Nero Digital (which I've not heard of) and even H264 in certain circumstances (I tried using a test file I downloaded, which played, but when I made my own it didnt play back), now, Im looking to convert some files I have in X264 so they will play on my Kiss Player. But I'm not too sure how to go about it. First things first, I use a Mac, and a lot of the discussions on here seem to be Windows only, I can boot into Windows if I have to, but its fiddly to transfer the files between hard drive partitions so if anyone knows a Mac solution it would be easier.

I have also heard that X264 is just a different header to an ordinary H264 file, and can be adjusted to make it more compatible, can anyone also explain how to do this? If this doesnt work, I'd appreciate someone recommending some settings that would help me get this right. I have tried playing with FFMpeg and the results look pretty dire.

Any help I would be grateful of....

[guns1inger]

There is a Mac forum, which is where you might get more specific answers on tools to use, however the general principals remain the same.

First, you have a sample video that plays. Use this to work out what parameters you need to use when encoding to get your videos to play. There is a Mac version of MediaInfo which can give you most, if not all, the information that you need.

X264 is in fact just an encoder. H264 is the mpeg-4 variation X264 produces.

You have a couple of options for encoding. Quite a bit of H264 encoding seems to be done with Handbrake, which has a Mac version. Not a big fan myself, but being on a Mac you aren't exactly spoilt for choice.

There is also a version of AVIDemux for the Mac, and it can also do mpeg-4 encoding using X264 based code.

The main difference between the two is that Handbrake has templates as well as manual over-rides, whereas AVI Demux is all manual. That said, AVIDemux does a lot more than just encoding, so it is still worth a look.

Give these a try, use the MediaInfo output as a guide, and see if you can get some short clips playing back. Once you get that far, you can refine the process to improve it.

I will also ask a Mod to move this to the Mac forum, where you will get more specific assistance.

edit : someone beat me too it - it has already been shifted.

[jagabo]

Never mind...

[potatoprince]

Thanks for your Suggestion Guns1inger, I've been playing about all morning, and have got something to work, the picture encodes in FFMPEG, but the final product seemed to be playing audio normally but the picture twice as fast, guess I need to check the frame rate, but Im not sure what setting to use as the files are from X264 and not sure what to use.

Aside from that, I think I'm getting started now.

Sorry if posted this in the wrong section, I thought it was relevant as It was about file conversion and not just that I have a Mac...

Thanks your advice

[guns1inger]

Not so much the wrong section, but many Mac users don't seem to look much further afield than here.

If the source was DVD then the likely framerates will be

23.976 for NTSC film source
29.970 for NTSC video source
25 for PAL source

MediaInfo can tell you what the original framerate was