From Dreambox (TS file) to MP4 H.264 for iPod

[Hii2]

Hi everybody,
I'm trying to convert with ffmpegX (0.0.9x r2) a trasport stream file registered with a Dreambox, but there is no way to do it. I've tried the same file with other presets (iPod mpeg-4 480W and XviD ffmpeg) with success.

The info on the progress application says:
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Encoding started on Wed Jan 31 20:56:19 CET 2007
x264 [info]: using SAR=1000/1001
x264 [info]: using cpu capabilities Altivec
mp4 [info]: initial delay 0 (scale 25000)
movtoy4m
Copyright 2002-2006 Johan Lindström
All rights reserved..
ERROR: Could not open movie: /Users/carlo/Desktop/Bean.ts
Encoding audio..
x264 [info]: final ratefactor: 47.25
usage: movtoway -o output.wav movie.mov
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I have no idea what I'm doing wrong, someone have an idea.

Thanks

[Hii2]

Update:

I've found out that this is happening when I use the x264 codec, with ffmpeg or mencoder everything is fine.

Any idea why and how to correct it?

Thanks

[Hii2]

I still don't get it I've tried different configuration but no way, the progress application starts and in less the a second it says "finished". The error is always the same:

ERROR: Could not open movie: /Users/carlo/Movies/Bean2.ts

Why? The movie is there!!!

[major]

This process is using Quicktime to read the input file, so if your Quicktime Player cannot open the TS file the same will happen to ffmpegX. I suggest to use MPEG Streamclip to extract the TS file as MPG. You will still need the Apple mpeg-2 player component to read mpeg-2.

[Hii2]

This process is using Quicktime to read the input file, so if your Quicktime Player cannot open the TS file the same will happen to ffmpegX. I suggest to use MPEG Streamclip to extract the TS file as MPG. You will still need the Apple mpeg-2 player component to read mpeg-2.

Thanks major, infact the TS file cannot be opened by quicktime, I've converted it with MPEG Streamclip to MPEG, then I've tried again but there was a problem with the audio part, here is the log file:

Encoding started on Sat Feb 3 19:50:28 CET 2007
movtoy4m
Copyright 2002-2006 Johan Lindström
All rights reserved..
x264 [info]: using SAR=1000/1001
x264 [info]: using cpu capabilities Altivec
mp4 [info]: initial delay 0 (scale 25000)
x264 [info]: slice I:556 Avg QP:18.65 size: 19219 PSNR Mean Y:48.22 U:49.84 V:50.82 Avg:48.76 Global:48.12
x264 [info]: slice P:127563 Avg QP:21.58 size: 3959 PSNR Mean Y:45.41 U:47.57 V:48.77 Avg:46.07 Global:45.34
x264 [info]: mb I I16..4: 46.3% 0.0% 53.7%
x264 [info]: mb P I16..4: 4.4% 0.0% 3.5% P16..4: 42.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% skip:50.1%
x264 [info]: final ratefactor: 20.71
x264 [info]: PSNR Mean Y:45.418 U:47.584 V:48.783 Avg:46.077 Global:45.351 kb/s:805.00
encoded 128119 frames, 8.38 fps, 805.03 kb/s
Encoding audio..
error: could not convert audio track!
Computing levels...
normalize: WAV header not found
normalize: error reading /Users/carlo/Movies/Bean2.mpeg.ff.wav
FFmpeg version CVS, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
Mac OSX universal build for ffmpegX
configuration: --enable-mp3lame --enable-gpl --disable-vhook --disable-ffplay --disable-ffserver --enable-a52 --enable-xvid --enable-faac --enable-faad --enable-amr_nb --enable-pthreads --enable-x264
libavutil version: 49.0.0
libavcodec version: 51.9.0
libavformat version: 50.4.0
built on Apr 15 2006 08:41:02, gcc: 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1666)
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '/Users/carlo/Movies/Bean2.mpeg.ff.video.mp4':
Duration: 01:25:24.7, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 805 kb/s
Stream #0.0(und), 25.00 fps(r): Video: h264, yuv420p, 640x352
/Users/carlo/Movies/Bean2.mpeg.ff.wav: Unknown format
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Apparently ffmpegX does not recognise the audio after converting it with MPEG Streamclip!!! Tried 2 more times but always the same result

So I've done it again from scrath (from the original TS) only this time using "H264 [MP4] (ffmpeg)" and everything went fine.

Thanks again