"Error opening movie" message from converted MPEG-1 Muxed

[helpOSx]

I have a DSC-S40 Sony Camera that takes MPEG-1 Muxed Movies (details in picture). I am running OS 10.4.7 and QT 7.1.2. and ffmpegX 0.0.9w (0.0.9w_r5). I want to be able to edit these movies in iMovie 05, iDVD 05 and Final Cut Express. These programs will not read the MPEG-1 Muxed file. Apple says I need a third party app. I have been successful at using the demux tool in ffmpegX but then i have an audio and separate video file that i have to sync. This will get tedious. I have tried to convert the MPEG-1 Muxed video to DV and MPEG4 in ffmpegX. ffmpegX reports that the conversion was successful, but when i try to open the file i get an "Error opening movie" message from QT. When the video is converted in ffmpegX it seems to happen to quickly. When i get info on the file, its size is zero. I have no idea what is wrong. can anybody help?

[Case]

After the (failed) conversion is done, press the button in the ffmpegX Progress window, to get the log. Copy that to a text file and attach to a post here, so we can have a look. The log should hold information on what it failed on, then hopefully we can suggest a why and a fix.

[helpOSx]

THANK YOU!

The following is from an attempt to convert to DV:

Encoding started on Wed Jul 26 22:16:49 EDT 2006
Input #0, mpeg, from '/Users/Chad/Desktop/MOV01297.MPG':
Duration: 00:00:09.9, start: 0.070000, bitrate: 10650 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Audio: mp2, 32000 Hz, mono, 64 kb/s
Stream #0.1: Video: mpeg1video, 640x480, 30.00 fps
Codec type mismatch for mapping #0.0 -> #0.0



The following is from an attempt to convert to MPEG4:

Encoding started on Wed Jul 26 22:18:31 EDT 2006
FFmpeg version CVS, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
Mac OSX universal build for ffmpegX
libavutil version: 49.0.0
libavcodec version: 51.9.0
libavformat version: 50.4.0
Input #0, mpeg, from '/Users/Chad/Desktop/MOV01297.MPG':
Duration: 00:00:09.9, start: 0.070000, bitrate: 10650 kb/s
Stream #0.0[0x1c0]: Audio: mp2, 32000 Hz, mono, 64 kb/s
Stream #0.1[0x1e0], 30.00 fps(r): Video: mpeg1video, yuv420p, 640x480, 104857 kb/s
Codec type mismatch for mapping #0.0 -> #0.0

[Case]

It seems your camera produces MPEG files that have the order of video and audio reversed. The audio stream is listed before the video stream; and ffmpegX expects it the other way around. There is a checkbox in the audio tab to "invert mapping", which tells ffmpegX how to deal with that. Tick that checkbox and encode again.

[helpOSx]

That did it. Thank you.

Sense you did so well with the last one. :-) How can i find out what the ffmpeg options do, like "High Quality?"

[Case]

http://www.ffmpegx.com/options.html