ffmpegX 0.0.9w Universal released

[major]

v0.0.9w Apr 27, 2006
http://ffmpegX.com/download.html

- Universal version (application and all encoding components with full support of SSE/MMX optimizations on Intel machines and Altivec on PPC machines).
Performances on Intel iMac (encoding from a VOB file, no crop) as follows :
mencoder DivX 640x272 100 fps (a movie is encoded in less than 30 minutes)
ffmpeg DVD 720x480 96 fps ( " " less than 30 minutes)
ffmpeg divx 640x272 60 fps (" " about 45 minutes)
ffmpeg xvid 640x272 47 fps (" " about 1 hour)
x264 h264 640x272 40 fps (" " about 1 hour)
mpeg2enc DVD 720x480 25 fps (" " real time)
Please note that ffmpeg cropping code is currently not well optimized. Using crop will lead to slower performances than the above figures.
- Support of the latest version of all encoding components also including further optimizations for PowerPC Macs.
- Added .FLV Flash Video preset for encoding video suitable for internet streaming (eg. use in blogs). You may find a tutorial about using Flash Video on your website here: http://ffmpegX.com/flv.html
- Enabled mencoder "Audio gain" option in the Intel version.
- Fixed threads issue with DivX 3 mencoder preset.
- Fixed bug in "add audio" file selection.
- Fixed audio bitrate value in "iPod for TV" hi-res preset.
- Fixed handling of PSP labels containing spaces or special characters.

Please report any bugs here.

[ultim8fury]

Awesome. Thanks Major.

[Case]

[PPC] The new mplayer doesn't play sound of MPEG-2/AC3 with an .mpg suffix, but does when the suffix is (changed to) .vob.

[ultim8fury]

Tiny thing but FFmpegX progress is still reported as a PPC app in Activity monitor.

[major]

Tiny thing but FFmpegX progress is still reported as a PPC app in Activity monitor.

Yes, it will be universalized later, it does not affect the encoding in any significant way.

[wcbtx]

20" Core Duo iMac here. When I tell it where the binaries are, put in my password, and hit "Install", I get "The Installation was Not Successful" and "##sudo: chmod: command not found".

Edit: nevermind. problems on my end.

[major]

20" Core Duo iMac here. When I tell it where the binaries are, put in my password, and hit "Install", I get "The Installation was Not Successful" and "##sudo: chmod: command not found".

Something missing in your OSX, anyway, try to copy the 3 binaries by hand into /Library/Application Support/ffmpegX.

[sitoru]

I just registered my copy, thanks for all you hard work major.

[wcbtx]

I registered as well. Major, you rock!

(and the FLV export does too - see http://www.mrbill.net/flv/

[llee782]

Please report any bugs here.

I tried using the instructions for converting a small (15M) .VOB (mine is mpeg2) file to iPod h.264 format found at http://ffmpegx.com/ipod_for_tv.html. The conversion was not successful on a dual core Intel iMac. An output file was created, but the file opened in QuickTime Player with a white window having the autoset dimensions and there was no transport when I clicked "play".

Here's the Process info.

I have successfully converted the movie using a command line with the ffmpeg, x264, and MP4Box executables. I wonder if maybe movtoy4m is not the correct executable to call.
Thanks.

Fri Apr 28 17:28:55 CDT 2006
using cpu capabilities MMX MMXEXT SSE SSE2
mp4 [info]: initial delay 0 (scale 24000)
movtoy4m
Copyright 2002-2006 Johan Lindstr??m
All rights reserved..
ERROR: Could not open movie: /video.VOB
x264 [info]: final ratefactor: 47.25
FFmpeg version CVS, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
Mac OSX universal build for ffmpegX
configuration: --enable-memalign-hack --enable-mp3lame --enable-gpl --disable-vhook --disable-ffplay --disable-ffserver --enable-a52 --enable-xvid --enable-faac --enable-faad --enable-amr_nb --enable-amr_wb --enable-pthreads --enable-x264
libavutil version: 49.0.0
libavcodec version: 51.9.0
libavformat version: 50.4.0
built on Apr 15 2006 04:58:19, gcc: 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5250)
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x5597b8]Could not find codec parameters (Video: h264, 320x176)
/video.VOB.ff.video.mp4: could not find codec parameters

[major]

If you use the QT decoder on mpeg-2 files, you need the Apple mpeg-2 player component.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mpeg2

[gmackenz]

I get an error in trying to install the recommended Mencoder and Mplayer binaries after upgrading to the latest FFMPEGX (0.0.9w)

I believe some code doesn't like my wonky filesystem naming, when I placed the FFMPEGX app onto my desktop the path was obviously quite shorter and more standerdly named and the installation of binaries was error-free.

Here's the error response:

##rcmd: getaddrinfo: No address associated with nodename
tar (child): /Applications/Media Design & Editing/DVD\:VCD tools/ffmpegX/ffmpegX.app/Contents/Resources/mux.tgz: Cannot open: (null)
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
/Applications/Media Design & Editing/DVD:VCD tools/ffmpegX/ffmpegX.app/Contents/Resources/gnutar: Child returned status 2
/Applications/Media Design & Editing/DVD:VCD tools/ffmpegX/ffmpegX.app/Contents/Resources/gnutar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

[major]

The application must be located in /Applications and not in /Applications/Media Design & Editing/DVD:VCD tools/

[gmackenz]

So it won't work at all in my preferred location? I will change it to /Applications (but it seems to work just fine for the past year or so in my deeply nested file structure).

Thanks for all the work on this, I desperately love this application for converting all the H264/MP4 files to a more watchable Xvid/DivX format on my 1.0 GHz Mac Cube

[llee782]

If you use the QT decoder on mpeg-2 files, you need the Apple mpeg-2 player component.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mpeg2

Why would I want to use the QT decoder? I'm a registered ffmpegX user. I didn't see the mpeg-2 player requirement in the instructions at the ffmpegX web site (http://ffmpegx.com/ipod.html). I thought I was just following the instructions. I *was* trying them while booted from a clean partition where I hadn't entered my registration yet, though. Is that sabotaging the process? Thanks.

[major]

It is said at the bottom of this page, http://www.ffmpegX.com/download.html
ffmpegX uses many decoders and many encoders. One of the decoders is Quicktime. If your Quicktime Player is unable to open the VOB file because you miss the Apple mpeg-2 component, so will ffmpegX. Two solutions : 1/ use another preset, or disable the "Decode with Quicktime" checkbox in the Options tab, 2/ install the Apple component.

[Case]

Please report any bugs here.

[PPC] Encoding VOB (MPEG-2/AC3) to any of the following formats, with Decode with QT activated, gives a 'Failed!' result error right away, with the log saying:

Encoding started on Sat Apr 29 00:56:32 CEST 2006
dyld: Library not loaded: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ZeroLink.framework/Versions/A/ZeroLink
  Referenced from: /Applications/ffmpegX_0.0.9w/ffmpegX.app//Contents/Resources/movtoy4m
  Reason: image not found

The target formats/presets, ALL with Decode with QT activated, that give this error are:
h.264 x264; XviD ffmpeg; DivX ffmpeg; iPod h.264 (x264 h264); PSP h.264 (x264 h264); SVCD mpeg2enc; SVCD ffmpeg; KSVCD (mpeg2enc mpeg2); CVD (mpeg2enc mpeg2); VCD mpeg2enc; VCD ffmpeg; KVCD (mpeg2enc mpeg1); DVD-lo (mpeg2enc mpeg2); DVD mpeg2enc; DVD ffmpeg; MPEG-TS (ffmpeg mpeg2); KDVD (mpeg2enc mpeg2).

Some other ffmpeg target formats, also with Decode with QT activated, encode fine however:
MOV mpeg-4 (ffmpeg); MP4 mpeg-4 (ffmpeg); 3GP (ffmpeg h263); iPod for TV (ffmpeg xvid); PSP (ffmpeg xvid); DV (ffmpeg dvvideo); FLV (ffmpeg Flash Video).

[llee782]

Two solutions : 1/ use another preset, or disable the "Decode with Quicktime" checkbox in the Options tab, 2/ install the Apple component.

OK, thanks. This is precisely why I am testing on a clean system. So now my bug report is, "Default settings are not compatible with default installation with regard to conversion of .VOB files to h.264 files as instructed at http://ffmpegx.com/ipod.html " I think fixing that may prevent numerous other help requests.

[major]

OK, I'll add a notice in that page.

[major]

Please report any bugs here.

[PPC] Encoding VOB (MPEG-2/AC3) to any of the following formats, with Decode with QT activated, gives a 'Failed!' result error right away, with the log saying.

Aha! Thanks. I'll check this quickly.

[major]

Please report any bugs here.

[PPC] Encoding VOB (MPEG-2/AC3) to any of the following formats, with Decode with QT activated, gives a 'Failed!' result error right away, with the log saying.

Aha! Thanks. I'll check this quickly.

Should be fixed now, please download again ("About ffmpegX" should report version "0.0.9w_r1") and let me know whether it is OK.

[Mildew]

I've got an iMac G5 but the mpeg2enc file that you link to is called "mpeg2enc.intel." Where can I find the PPC version to install?

[mrwho]

BUG:

Okay after closing the mplayer for a preview in mpg2->mp4 H.264 mencoder i get this errormessage:

FIXME:Hardenabling SSE and SSE2 without detection
The selected video_out device is incompatibe with this codec.
Try adding the scale filter, e.g. -vf spp, scale instead of -vf spp.

MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: uinit_vo

[Case]

let me know whether it is OK.

All 17 that failed before, do now encode okay on my test clip. Thanks for the fast fix.

[dombi]

I selected H264[.MP4] (x264), and under Options, the Qmin and Qmax values seem to be fixed. I cannot adjust them. Is this how it is supposed to be maybe?

[izdaman]

Hi,

Great Work major, however, I'd love to register but PayPal doesn't take maestro cards (widely used in Europe) so I'll give the cash to someone who has a Visa/Mastercard and register it that way, just wanted you to know that I'm lovin' your work though!

[gmackenz]

Tried converting a .MKV anime file containing h264, yuv420p, 640x480 video stream and a vorbis stereo audio stream.

The default DivX .AVI cnverson setting failed immediately with this error:

Encoding started on Sat Apr 29 01:34:31 PDT 2006
MEncoder dev-CVS-060413-06:15-3.3 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
Mac OSX static build for ffmpegX
AltiVec found
CPU: PowerPC
success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x8bd4159
[mkv] Track ID 1: video (V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC), -vid 0
[mkv] Track ID 2: audio (A_VORBIS), -aid 0, -alang und
[mkv] Will play video track 1
[mkv] Will play audio track 2
Matroska file format detected.
VIDEO: [avc1] 640x480 24bpp 23.975 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:31 fourcc:0x31637661 size:640x480 fps:23.98 ftime:=0.0417
================================================== ========================
Opening audio decoder: [libvorbis] Ogg/Vorbis audio decoder
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16be, 144.0 kbit/9.38% (ratio: 18000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [vorbis] afm: libvorbis (OggVorbis Audio Decoder)
================================================== ========================
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=480]
================================================== ========================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
Audio LAVC, couldn't find encoder for codec mp3
================================================== ========================
Forcing output fourcc to 58564944 [XVID]
Exiting...

[major]

I've got an iMac G5 but the mpeg2enc file that you link to is called "mpeg2enc.intel." Where can I find the PPC version to install?

It is a Universal version, just ignore everything and follow blindly instructions at http://ffmpegX.com/download.html

[major]

Tried converting a .MKV anime file containing h264, yuv420p, 640x480 video stream and a vorbis stereo audio stream...

Looking into it.. thanks for reporting.

[BeardFan]

Selecting subtitle size still doesn't work when burning in ssa or srt subtitle using a mencoder preset. Guess I'll have to keep switching between binaries.