Won't convert to H.264, just some audio file

[Mechcozmo]

First of all, thanks for ffmpegX which worked great. Until now... Well. Sorta. I found a program to pull videos off of the TiVo, but they are 1) huge 2) in an odd format.

Two of them converted fine to H.264 (480x480 was the starting resolution, and I was forced into making it the final one too else the processing finished immediately, which didn't happen). And now, with the exact same settings as before, I get two files. One has the blank document icon and ends in .mp4, the other is a Quicktime files that ends in .aac.mp4 however I need to use VLC to play it.

Anyone have any ideas?

[major]

Email me to major4@mac.com with more details about your encoding (screenshots, process output, etc) for closer inspection.

[Mechcozmo]

I have a couple that I'm sending you, but I'm running a test to see if it is a permission problem. The file used to be in a user's FTP upload folder-- I moved it out and am testing. I will however try again with the file in the user's folder, so that you may have a logfile to look at.

Thanks!

[Mechcozmo]

Too much to hope for, that it woud work, I guess...

From the Terminal:
File not found: 'frameno.avi'
Failed to open frameno.avi
success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x51b23e7a
Encrypted VOB file! Read DOCS/HTML/en/dvd.html.
Encrypted VOB file! Read DOCS/HTML/en/dvd.html.
Encrypted VOB file! Read DOCS/HTML/en/dvd.html.
Those last 3 lines repeat... and repeat... and repeat...
Another screenshot headed your way, major.

[major]

Are these encrypted .tivo files?

[Mechcozmo]

No, the files were de-crypted and two of the files were converted successfully. Then they started to turn out funky. Seeing as it doesn't make sense for them to be that much different... you get the idea?

[major]

For some reason I'm not sure of, mencoder seem to still regard them as being encrypted. Eventually try with 0.0.9s mencoder binary (but it does not work for MP4 H264, so keep also 0.0.9t mencoder at hand).

[Mechcozmo]

So, install the old mencoder binary, make H.264, then install new mencoder binary and make them new H.264?