Failed conversion to H.264

[camevad]

I have several files I am attempting to convert to H.264 and I am having problems. The files are either DivX or XviD and I have tried using both mencoder and x264.

Mencoder creates a file for me that cannot be played on any player. FFMpegX indicates that the file has a duration of 0:00:00.

x264 creates a file that can be played, albeit incorrectly. The video is compressed to ~25 minutes and played at high speed with no audio. Afer the completion of the video the audio plays at normal speed with a blank screen.

The videos I am converting are high resolution, high bitrate video files. My attempt to convert simply to MP4 resulted in some choppiness in the video.

H.264 is the only acceptable video format I can use... please help.

[Case]

I have several files I am attempting to convert to H.264 and I am having problems. The files are either DivX or XviD and I have tried using both mencoder and x264. The videos I am converting are high resolution, high bitrate video files.

Higher than 960x544, 1850 kbps, 700 MB per 44 mins?

Mencoder creates a file for me that cannot be played on any player. FFMpegX indicates that the file has a duration of 0:00:00.

Please post output file size and the log (Process Information) .

x264 creates a file that can be played, albeit incorrectly. The video is compressed to ~25 minutes and played at high speed with no audio. Afer the completion of the video the audio plays at normal speed with a blank screen.

Try Decoding with QuickTime, if you can get QuickTime player to play your source file correctly; having installed the right QT codecs (DivX, AC3).

[camevad]

I have several files I am attempting to convert to H.264 and I am having problems. The files are either DivX or XviD and I have tried using both mencoder and x264. The videos I am converting are high resolution, high bitrate video files.

Higher than 960x544, 1850 kbps, 700 MB per 44 mins?

Mencoder creates a file for me that cannot be played on any player. FFMpegX indicates that the file has a duration of 0:00:00.

Please post output file size and the log (Process Information) .

x264 creates a file that can be played, albeit incorrectly. The video is compressed to ~25 minutes and played at high speed with no audio. Afer the completion of the video the audio plays at normal speed with a blank screen.

Try Decoding with QuickTime, if you can get QuickTime player to play your source file correctly; having installed the right QT codecs (DivX, AC3).

1290x720 4Gb/120m so it's big

I don't have the log, but I do have all of the quicktie components installed and still nothing will play on any player.

[Case]

1290x720 4Gb/120m so it's big

I do not have such large XviD files, so I can't test with it.

I don't have the log,

Then we can't find any errors to fix in there.

but I do have all of the quicktie components installed and still nothing will play on any player.

Your source file won't play, or your output file won't play? What I was trying to say is, if QuickTime Player can succesfully play your source file, then ffmpegX can (if selected) use QuickTime architecture to read your source file, instead of using ffmpeg, so to utilize QuickTime's timing for better syncing video and audio. That's the beauty of having multiple decoders available within one tool; sometimes the other decoder brings better results.

[oncemore]

Mencoder creates a file for me that cannot be played on any player. FFMpegX indicates that the file has a duration of 0:00:00.

Please post output file size and the log (Process Information) .

I'm having the same problem and i cannot use another decoder cause only mencoder supports subtitles

[baudburn]

I'm having the exact same problem.

Here's the log:
FFmpeg version CVS, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
Sun Feb 4 02:56:15 CST 2007
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)
Input #0, avi, from 'an.avi':
Duration: 00:04:25.8, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 6298 kb/s
Stream #0.0, 29.97 fps(r): Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 1280x720
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 320 kb/s
Output #0, yuv4mpegpipe, to 'pipe:':
Stream #0.0, 29.97 fps(c): Video: rawvideo, yuv420p, 1280x720, q=2-31, 200 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Press [q] to stop encoding
[mpeg4 @ 0x54340c]frame skip 8
[mpeg4 @ 0x54340c]frame skip 8
[mpeg4 @ 0x54340c]frame skip 8
[mpeg4 @ 0x54340c]frame skip 8
x264 [info]: using cpu capabilities MMX MMXEXT SSE SSE2
mp4 [info]: initial delay 1001 (scale 30000)

error, non monotone timestamps 9009 >= 9009
(Pages and pages of this here)
error, non monotone timestamps 23918895 >= 23915892

video:0kB audio:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead inf%
x264 [info]: slice I:35 Avg QP:27.97 size: 29672 PSNR Mean Y:42.46 U:48.52 V:48.48 Avg:43.66 Global:42.94
x264 [info]: slice P:3127 Avg QP:31.20 size: 14496 PSNR Mean Y:39.25 U:46.62 V:46.53 Avg:40.59 Global:39.89
x264 [info]: slice B:653 Avg QP:32.88 size: 7915 PSNR Mean Y:37.99 U:45.95 V:45.97 Avg:39.38 Global:38.75
x264 [info]: mb I I16..4: 59.3% 0.0% 40.7%
x264 [info]: mb P I16..4: 23.6% 0.0% 14.1% P16..4: 27.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% skip:34.6%
x264 [info]: mb B I16..4: 8.4% 0.0% 5.1% B16..8: 22.0% 0.0% 0.0% direct: 3.4% skip:61.1%
x264 [info]: PSNR Mean Y:39.063 U:46.519 V:46.451 Avg:40.407 Global:39.692 kb/s:3238.93
encoded 3815 frames, 9.11 fps, 3240.28 kb/s
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)
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'an.mp4':
Duration: 00:02:07.2, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 3242 kb/s
Stream #0.0(und), 29.97 fps(r): Video: h264, yuv420p, 1280x720
Input #1, avi, from '/an.avi':
Duration: 00:04:25.8, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 6298 kb/s
Stream #1.0, 29.97 fps(r): Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 1280x720
Stream #1.1: Audio: mp3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 320 kb/s
Output #0, mp4, to 'an.mp4':
Stream #0.0: Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, stereo, 128 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #1.1 -> #0.0 [sync #0.0]
Press [q] to stop encoding
[NULL @ 0x54340c]frame skip 8
[NULL @ 0x54340c]frame skip 8
video:0kB audio:4083kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 2.398729%

IsoMedia import - track ID 1 - Audio (SR 48000 - 2 channels)

Saving an.mp4: 0.500 secs Interleaving

Encoding completed on Sun Feb 4 03:12:14 CST 2007