Decode with Quicktime Help

[wolfwood87]

Well, I got an avi that I converted to mov through Divx Doctor. Then I took the audio, which was in ac3 and converted it to mp3. I added it to the movie and changed the duration of it so that the movie would be in sync. Then I added subs with TitleLab. So I now have a .mov movie with a synced audio track and subtitles. I would like to get this movie to VCD format, so I went into FFMPEGX 0.0.9 and dropped the movie in and had the following things checked after I selected the VCD preset:

On the Options Tab --
Letterbox
Decode With Quicktime (because it is a mov file)
Set 3:2
Bicubic

On the Tools Tab --
Open terminal window
Keep elementary streams

I process it using these options checked and I get a m1v file that is about 100 mgs in size, a mp2 file that is about 180 mgs in size, and then it muxed the file into a file that is 1.08 gigs in size. This was my Terminal output:

Welcome to Darwin!
[Delgamo:~] dave% pbpaste | sh
Encoding started on Thu Jan 1 23:27:03 PST 2004
INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler (version 1.7.0) is a general scaling utility for yuv frames
INFO: [yuvscaler] (C) 2001-2002 Xavier Biquard <xbiquard@free.fr>
INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler -h for help, or man yuvscaler
## Component Manager: attempting to find symbols in a component alias of type (regR/carP/x!bt)
++ WARN: [yuvscaler] Could not infer norm (PAL/SECAM or NTSC) from input data (frame size=352x240, frame rate=24000:1001 fps)!!
## Component Manager: attempting to find symbols in a component alias of type (regR/carP/x!bt)
INFO: Opened WAV file, freq = 44100 Hz, channels = 2, bits = 16
INFO: format = 0x1, audio length = 1175708160 bytes
INFO: slots/frame = 731
INFO: frac SpF=0.429, tot bitrate=224 kbps, s freq=44.1 kHz
INFO: Fractional number of slots, padding required
INFO: System is big endian
INFO: Avg slots/frame = Inf; b/smp = Inf; br = Inf kbps
INFO: Encoding with psychoacoustic model 2 is finished
INFO: The MPEG encoded output file name is "/Volumes/Big Mama/User disk/Dave/Anime Files/sam fic vcd1.mp2"
INFO: [mplex] mplex version 2.2.2 ($Date: 2003/05/13 20:27:15 $)
INFO: [mplex] File /Volumes/Big Mama/User disk/Dave/Anime Files/sam fic vcd1.m1v looks like an MPEG Video stream.
INFO: [mplex] File /Volumes/Big Mama/User disk/Dave/Anime Files/sam fic vcd1.mp2 looks like an MPEG Audio stream.
INFO: [mplex] Video stream 0: profile 1 selected - ignoring non-standard options!
INFO: [mplex] Found 1 audio streams and 1 video streams
INFO: [mplex] Selecting VCD output profile
INFO: [mplex] Multiplexing video program stream!
INFO: [mplex] Scanning for header info: Video stream e0 (/Volumes/Big Mama/User disk/Dave/Anime Files/sam fic vcd1.m1v)
INFO: [mplex] VIDEO STREAM: e0
INFO: [mplex] Frame width : 352
INFO: [mplex] Frame height : 240
INFO: [mplex] Aspect ratio : 1:1.1250 (4:3 NTSC for 720x480/352x240 images)
INFO: [mplex] Picture rate : 23.976 frames/sec
INFO: [mplex] Bit rate : 1152000 bits/sec
INFO: [mplex] Vbv buffer size : 40960 bytes
INFO: [mplex] CSPF : 1
INFO: [mplex] Scanning for header info: Audio stream c0 (/Volumes/Big Mama/User disk/Dave/Anime Files/sam fic vcd1.mp2)
INFO: [mplex] MPEG AUDIO STREAM: c0
INFO: [mplex] Audio version : 1.0
INFO: [mplex] Layer : 2
INFO: [mplex] CRC checksums : no
INFO: [mplex] Bit rate : 28672 bytes/sec (224 kbit/sec)
INFO: [mplex] Frequency : 44100 Hz
INFO: [mplex] Mode : 0 stereo
INFO: [mplex] Mode extension : 0
INFO: [mplex] Copyright bit : 0 no copyright
INFO: [mplex] Original/Copy : 0 copy
INFO: [mplex] Emphasis : 0 none
INFO: [mplex] SYSTEMS/PROGRAM stream:
INFO: [mplex] rough-guess multiplexed stream data rate : 1403296
INFO: [mplex] target data-rate specified : 1411200
INFO: [mplex] Setting specified specified data rate: 1411200
INFO: [mplex] Run-in Sectors = 18 Video delay = 21600 Audio delay = 25353
INFO: [mplex] New sequence commences...
INFO: [mplex] Video e0: buf= 47104 frame=000000 sector=00000000
INFO: [mplex] Audio c0: buf= 4096 frame=000000 sector=00000000
INFO: [mplex] Padding : sector=00000000
INFO: [mplex] Scanned to end AU 18995
INFO: [mplex] STREAM e0 completed @ frame 18995.
INFO: [mplex] STREAM c0 completed @ frame 255143.
INFO: [mplex] Multiplex completion at SCR=599902800.
INFO: [mplex] Video e0: buf= 47104 frame=018995 sector=00049380
INFO: [mplex] Audio c0: buf= 1171 frame=255143 sector=00081887
INFO: [mplex] Padding : sector=00368620
INFO: [mplex] VIDEO_STATISTICS: e0
INFO: [mplex] Video Stream length: 113712473 bytes
INFO: [mplex] Sequence headers: 1293
INFO: [mplex] Sequence ends : 1
INFO: [mplex] No. Pictures : 18995
INFO: [mplex] No. Groups : 1293
INFO: [mplex] No. I Frames : 1293 avg. size 10283 bytes
INFO: [mplex] No. P Frames : 5040 avg. size 6821 bytes
INFO: [mplex] No. B Frames : 12663 avg. size 5214 bytes
INFO: [mplex] Average bit-rate : 1148000 bits/sec
INFO: [mplex] Peak bit-rate : 1169600 bits/sec
INFO: [mplex] BUFFERING min 23 Buf max 23750
INFO: [mplex] AUDIO_STATISTICS: c0
INFO: [mplex] Audio stream length 186619611 bytes.
INFO: [mplex] Syncwords : 255144
INFO: [mplex] Frames : 145797 padded
INFO: [mplex] Frames : 109347 unpadded
INFO: [mplex] BUFFERING min 15 Buf max 746
INFO: [mplex] MUX STATUS: no under-runs detected.
Encoding completed on Fri Jan 2 02:12:05 PST 2004

[Delgamo:~] dave%


Any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks,
wolfwood87

[major]

Well, I got an avi that I converted to mov through Divx Doctor. Then I took the audio, which was in ac3 and converted it to mp3. I added it to the movie and changed the duration of it so that the movie would be in sync.

This mp3 step is not needed, you should instead install the AC3 quicktime codec.

Which is the duration of the mov file, and does the encoded m1v file include your subtitles?

[wolfwood87]

The duration of the mov file is 1 hr. 51 mins. 20 secs. Yes, the encoded m1v file does have subs.

This is odd because I haven't had this problem before. I have taken mov files with subs and successfully converted them to VCD this way before. The reason I encoded the AC3 file to MP3 was in hopes that DivX Doctor could then take the file and turn it into a .mov but I think that Quicktime already did this for me.

wolfwood87

[major]

Try to use Quicktime player to split the movie in two, and encode each half.

[wolfwood87]

I used QT to split the movie into 2 halves. Then I tried to encode the first half and the movie had the same problem as before and stopped encoding at the same place. Any other ideas?

wolfwood87

[major]

Try export your movie to .mov with codec Motion JPEG A by using Quicktime Player, and encode the resulting file.

[wolfwood87]

Thanks for your help, major, but I can't seem to get Quicktime to do this for me. I tell it to export to Motion JPEG A and then let it go and although it looks like it is working, besides making a 0 kb file in the folder I set as the output folder, Quicktime doesn't do anything. Then, eventually the program unexpectedly quits. Is this a problem that only occurs with my copy of this program? Is there another way to do this export without the use of Quicktime?

Thanks,
wolfwood87