ffMpeg: no Audio encoded for SVCD

[majortom]

Hi.
This is my first post in this forum. Anyway... the question is: I'm trying to encode a SVCD witt ffMpeg ("f" vers.) but I'm getting an error at the end because it is unable to mux the tracks beacuse (sorry...) the audio track (m2a) is not available. The matter is that I do not see any encoding of the audio track on the terminal while I correctly selected an MP3 to be encoded.
This is important since I' unable to obtain a goog VCD for my Pioneer DV525 (audio is terrible).

[major]

You should post your terminal output so as we can try to help you.

[majortom]

Here it is:
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Last login: Fri Nov 8 16:27:33 on ttyp1
pbpaste | sh
Welcome to Darwin!
[Simons-Computer:~] simon% pbpaste | sh
Input #0, mpegvideo, from '/Volumes/HD-VideoEditing/SVCD/PGR.m2v':
Stream #0.0: Video: mpegvideo, 720x576, 25.00 fps, 8000 kb/s
Output #0, yuv4mpegpipe, to 'pipe:':
Stream #0.0: Video: rawvideo, yuv420p, 480x576, 25.00 fps, q=2-31, 200 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Press [q] to stop encoding
YUV4MPEG stream header written. FPS is 25
++ 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
frame= 1528 q= 0 size= 618850kB time=61.1 bitrate=82945.4kbits/s
Input #0, mpegvideo, from '/Volumes/HD-VideoEditing/SVCD/PGR.m2v':
Stream #0.0: Video: mpegvideo, 720x576, 25.00 fps, 8000 kb/s
No audio or video streams available
INFO: [mplex] mplex version 2.2.1 ($Date: 2002/04/20 19:08:30 $)
INFO: [mplex] File /Volumes/HD-VideoEditing/SVCD/PGR.svcd.m2v looks like an MPEG Video stream.
**ERROR: [mplex] Unable to open file /Volumes/HD-VideoEditing/SVCD/PGR.svcd.mp2 for reading.
Encoding complete!
[Simons-Computer:~] simon%
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The audio input file is an .aif converted to .mp3 by iTunes. HTH.

TIA
Simon

[major]

Sorry, could you please activate the "Echo command line" checkbox and post again your terminal output?

[majortom]

Major, I'm unable to repeat the procedure because the mpeg2enc is no more available due to reparation of privileges and ffMpeg doesn't display anymore the terminal commands to install it.
Could you please submit those commands as I'm unable to get them from the mpeg2enc site?
Next time I'll write down those commands as I frequently repair privileges.
Thanks and sorry for the inconvenience.

[major]

The commands to install the mpeg2enc component are listed inside the Changelog file which comes with ffmpegX.

[majortom]

major, no way to redo an encoding. I re-downloaded and re-installed mpeg2enc but this is the result:
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Last login: Mon Nov 11 12:35:53 on ttyp1
pbpaste | sh
Welcome to Darwin!
[dhcp24:~] simon% pbpaste | sh
/Volumes/HD-VideoEditing/SVCD/PGR.m2v: could not find codec parameters
**ERROR: [mpeg2enc] Could not read YUV4MPEG2 header: system error (failed read/write)!
/Volumes/HD-VideoEditing/SVCD/PGR.m2v: could not find codec parameters
INFO: [mplex] mplex version 2.2.1 ($Date: 2002/04/20 19:08:30 $)
**ERROR: [mplex] Unable to open file /Volumes/HD-VideoEditing/SVCD/PGR_SVCD_FF.m2v for reading.
(Super) VideoCD xml description created successfully as `/Volumes/HD-VideoEditing/SVCD/PGR_SVCD_FF.xml'
++ WARN: initializing libvcd 0.7.12 [darwin5.2/powerpc]
++ WARN:
++ WARN: this is the UNSTABLE development branch!
++ WARN: use only if you know what you are doing
++ WARN: see http://www.hvrlab.org/~hvr/vcdimager/ for more information
++ WARN:
**ERROR: could not stat() file `/Volumes/HD-VideoEditing/SVCD/PGR_SVCD_FF': No such file or directory
rm: /Volumes/HD-VideoEditing/SVCD/PGR_SVCD_FF_02_pregap.img: No such file or directory
rm: /Volumes/HD-VideoEditing/SVCD/PGR_SVCD_FF.toc: No such file or directory
Encoding complete!
[dhcp24:~] simon%
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[major]

Try to add a .MOV file extension to your M2V file and relaunch encoding.

[majortom]

major: here is the terminal output with the echo comand on:
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[major]

OK, I seen your last output, but it was the same. Could you instead try this: start encoding, and immediately after, paste your clipboard contents here in the forum (just hit Apple-V in a message).

[majortom]

Here it is:


/VideoEditing/Encoding/ffMPEG/ffmpegX\ f.app//Contents/Resources/ffmpeg -i /Users/simon/Movies/PGR_MPEG2.m2v -y -f yuv4mpegpipe -s 480x576 -map 0.0:0.0 -r 25 -an - | /usr/bin/mpeg2enc -v 0 -f 4 -a 2 -b 2500 -q 2 -I 0 -M 1 -V 230 -o /Volumes/HD-VideoEditing/SVCD/PGR_SVCD_FF.m2v; /VideoEditing/Encoding/ffMPEG/ffmpegX\ f.app//Contents/Resources/ffmpeg -i /Users/simon/Movies/PGR_MPEG2.m2v -y -vn -f mp2 -acodec mp2 -ab 224 -ar 44100 -ac 2 -map 1.1:0.0 /Volumes/HD-VideoEditing/SVCD/PGR_SVCD_FF.mp2; /VideoEditing/Encoding/ffMPEG/ffmpegX\ f.app//Contents/Resources/mplex -V -f 4 -O 0 -b 230 -o /Volumes/HD-VideoEditing/SVCD/PGR_SVCD_FF.mpg /Volumes/HD-VideoEditing/SVCD/PGR_SVCD_FF.m2v /Volumes/HD-VideoEditing/SVCD/PGR_SVCD_FF.mp2 ; /VideoEditing/Encoding/ffMPEG/ffmpegX\ f.app//Contents/Resources/vcdxgen -q -t svcd --nopbc -o /Volumes/HD-VideoEditing/SVCD/PGR_SVCD_FF.xml /Volumes/HD-VideoEditing/SVCD/PGR_SVCD_FF; /VideoEditing/Encoding/ffMPEG/ffmpegX\ f.app//Contents/Resources/vcdxbuild -q --cdrdao-file=/Volumes/HD-VideoEditing/SVCD/PGR_SVCD_FF /Volumes/HD-VideoEditing/SVCD/PGR_SVCD_FF.xml; rm /Volumes/HD-VideoEditing/SVCD/PGR_SVCD_FF.xml; rm /Volumes/HD-VideoEditing/SVCD/PGR_SVCD_FF_02_pregap.img; rm /Volumes/HD-VideoEditing/SVCD/PGR_SVCD_FF.toc; printf "Encoding complete!\a\n"

[majortom]

*duplicate post*

[major]

Try to add a .MOV file extension to your M2V file and relaunch encoding.

[majortom]

No way to get a SVCD, major.
I'll try later as I don't have much time to spend on this thing now especialoly considering that I'm going to purchase a PB with DVD-R.