MP4 H.264 No video, only audio

[mjoeyoung]

I've just started using this program and I can't get the H.264 codec to work. Everytime I encode all I get is the audio.

All the other codecs I've tried seem to work fine. I've tried uninstalling, reinstalling, and encoding from different sources, nothing has worked. I won't be astonished to find out I've done something boneheaded.

I'm using 10.4.2 with QuickTime 7.0.3 and ffmpegX 0.0.9t with the suggested binaries installed.

The Process Information represents an attempted DV to MP4 H.264 using the Quick Preset.

Thanks in advance.

Here is the Process Information:

Encoding started on Wed Oct 19 02:57:14 EDT 2005
MEncoder dev-CVS-050814-13:46-3.3 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
Mac OSX static build for ffmpegX
AltiVec found
CPU: PowerPC
success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x501bd00
RAWDV file format detected.
VIDEO: [DSVD] 720x480 24bpp 29.970 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:22 fourcc:0x44535644 size:720x480 fps:29.97 ftime:=0.0334
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
Opening video filter: [scale w=640 h=352]
Opening video filter: [pp=0x33]
Opening video filter: [harddup]
================================================== ========================
Requested video codec family [qdv] (vfm=dshow) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffdv] vfm:ffmpeg (FFmpeg DV decoder)
================================================== ========================
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Planar 411P)
[PP] Using external postprocessing filter, max q = 6.
VDec: using Planar 411P as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 2 -> 2
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 2 -> 2
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 2 -> 2
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 2 -> 2
SwScaler: FAST_BILINEAR scaler, from Planar 411P to Planar YV12 using AltiVec
using SAR=176/213
x264 [info]: using cpu capabilities Altivec
Flushing video frames
Fixing AVI header...
Video stream: 771.833 kbit/s (96479 bps) size: 2253434 bytes 23.357 secs 700 frames
slice I:10 Avg QP:22.40 Avg size: 8592
x264 [info]: slice P:690 Avg QP:23.29 Avg size: 3136
x264 [info]: slice I Avg I4x4:17.5% I8x8:0.0% I16x16:82.5%
x264 [info]: slice P Avg I4x4:2.1% I8x8:0.0% I16x16:29.9% P:26.4% P8x8:1.1% PSKIP:40.5%
x264 [info]: kb/s:770.5
Input #0, dv, from '/Master.dv':
Duration: 00:00:23.3, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 28771 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Video: dvvideo, 720x480, 29.97 fps, 25000 kb/s
Stream #0.1: Audio: pcm_s16le, 48000 Hz, stereo, 1536 kb/s
Output #0, mp4, to '/Master.dv.ff.aac.mp4':
Stream #0.0: Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, stereo, 96 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.1 -> #0.0
Press [q] to stop encoding
video:0kB audio:502kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 1.824078%
ffmpeg version 0.4.9-pre1, build 4736, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard

[mjoeyoung]

I figured it out!

I ran ffmpegX with Open Terminal Window checked and looked at the info there.

This line caught my eye:

sh: line 1: /Applications/ffmpegX.app//Contents/Resources/mp4box: No such file or directory

So I took a look inside the Resources folder and I saw that the file was named MP4Box, not mp4box.

And then I remembered that my HD was formatted CASE-SENSITIVE.

So I changed the capitals to lowercase and the H.264 encoding worked.