Can't encode file with audio with Mencoder

[ApplePro]

Hello,

I'm trying to encode file to FLV file format for YouTube with mencoder. When I encode with -nosound option, I get no errors. I get normal FLV video file:

mencoder -vf scale=448:-3,expand=448:336 -sws 9 -of lavf -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=flv:vbitrate=400 -frames 200 -ofps 15 -nosound -o test2.flv logo1.avi

I get this output:

MEncoder dev-SVN-r24986-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) D CPU 3.20GHz (Family: 15, Model: 6, Stepping: 5)
CPUflags: Type: 15 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2

success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x872968
AVI file format detected.
[aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0
[aviheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
VIDEO: [HFYU] 448x336 24bpp 15.000 fps 22257.1 kbps (2716.9 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:3 fourcc:0x55594648 size:448x336 fps:15.00 ftime:=0.0667
** MUXER_LAVF ************************************************** ***************
REMEMBER: MEncoder's libavformat muxing is presently broken and can generate
INCORRECT files in the presence of B frames. Moreover, due to bugs MPlayer
will play these INCORRECT files as if nothing were wrong!
************************************************** *****************************
OK, exit
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
Opening video filter: [expand w=448 h=336]
Expand: 448 x 336, -1 ; -1, osd: 0, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
Opening video filter: [scale w=448 h=-3]
================================================== ========================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffhuffyuv] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg HuffYUV)
================================================== ========================
VDec: vo config request - 448 x 336 (preferred colorspace: BGRA)
VDec: using BGRA as output csp (no 3)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 13 -> 12
[swscaler @ 0xd87530]SwScaler: Lanczos scaler, from rgb32 to yuv420p using MMX2
[swscaler @ 0xd87530]SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal luminance scaling
[swscaler @ 0xd87530]SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal chrominance scaling
[swscaler @ 0xd87530]SwScaler: using 1-tap MMX "scaler" for vertical scaling (YV12 like)
[swscaler @ 0xd87530]SwScaler: 448x336 -> 448x336
videocodec: libavcodec (448x336 fourcc=31564c46 [FLV1])
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
VIDEO CODEC ID: 22
Writing header...
Pos: 3.1s 46f (97%) 0.00fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.000 [50:0]]
Flushing video frames.
Writing index...

Video stream: 50.802 kbit/s (6350 B/s) size: 19474 bytes 3.067 secs 46 frames

But when I try to encode video with sound, I get error. The command line I use:

mencoder -vf scale=448:-3,expand=448:336 -sws 9 -of lavf -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=flv:vbitrate=400 -frames 200 -ofps 15 -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=80:mode=3 -af resample=22050:0:0 -channels 1 -o test2.flv logo1.avi

The error:

MEncoder dev-SVN-r24986-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) D CPU 3.20GHz (Family: 15, Model: 6, Stepping: 5)
CPUflags: Type: 15 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2

success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x872968
AVI file format detected.
[aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0
[aviheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
VIDEO: [HFYU] 448x336 24bpp 15.000 fps 22257.1 kbps (2716.9 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:3 fourcc:0x55594648 size:448x336 fps:15.00 ftime:=0.0667
================================================== ========================
Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 1 ch, s16le, 705.6 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 88200->88200)
Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm: pcm (Uncompressed PCM)
================================================== ========================
** MUXER_LAVF ************************************************** ***************
REMEMBER: MEncoder's libavformat muxing is presently broken and can generate
INCORRECT files in the presence of B frames. Moreover, due to bugs MPlayer
will play these INCORRECT files as if nothing were wrong!
************************************************** *****************************
OK, exit
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
Opening video filter: [expand w=448 h=336]
Expand: 448 x 336, -1 ; -1, osd: 0, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
Opening video filter: [scale w=448 h=-3]
================================================== ========================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffhuffyuv] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg HuffYUV)
================================================== ========================

Exiting...

I wonder how can I fix this?

[thinkspring]

I'm having the same issue- .flv's encode fine without sound, but will not encode when lame enters the mix.

Did you (or has anyone) resolved this problem?

[Soopafresh]

Try this version of mencoder

http://tirnanog.fate.jp/mirror/mplayer/mplayer2007.05.23.7z

Download PthreadGC2.dll if you don't have it already

ftp://sourceware.org/pub/pthreads-win32/dll-latest/lib/pthreadGC2.dll

Look at the syntax in this cmd file

youtube_emulate.cmd

[thinkspring]

Thanks Soopafresh- I am going to study & try these asap!

[thinkspring]

Thanks again for your help,

I'm running a (centos-based) linux server with mencoder, so I don't think the .dll will do me much good.

I checked out the mencoder options in youtube_emulate.cmd, but unfortunately they are using a switch that has caused my installation to fail ("-lavfopts i_certify_that_my_video_stream_does_not_use_b_fram es"). When I relpace the -lavfopts option with "-ofps 13" and it works- unless I try to add sound.

Thanks again for trying to help.

[Soopafresh]

Ah, I did not know you were running on Linux.

[thinkspring]

Sorry, I should have mentioned that.

It seems like a lot of folks are using mencoder, no doubt for good reason (it's working for a lot of people). I'm pretty new to this, would you happen to know if there are any alternatives to mencoder?

My first plan is to get mencoder working somehow, but I'm curious to know if there are other options folks may have heard of for server-based video encoding.

[Soopafresh]

Well, You can try the mencoder I pointed to under WINE

http://www.winehq.org/

You can try ffmpeg, although I'm not certain of the syntax to convert to flv. It's a bit of work to find an ffmpeg with lamemp3 encoding features for some reason as well.


But, bottom line, Youtube is going to re-convert whatever video format you feed it - even flv. If you goal is to submit a video to youtube, you might as well just give them a high bitrate Xvid or Mpeg2 source file - just as long as it is under 100MB in size or is less than 10 minutes long.

[45tripp]

mplayer is a linux tool...

can't help with linux issues,
but on windows it works just fine

happens with any file?
the original post doesn't point to any error.
could be a miscompiled version crashing...

plenty of builds to try from.
if you think it's version related you could always revert to older.
and better yet you can compile yourself

But, bottom line, Youtube is going to re-convert whatever video format you feed it - even flv.

not is you follow the 'legal' parameters outlined here:
https://forum.videohelp.com/topic336882.html

You can try ffmpeg, although I'm not certain of the syntax to convert to flv.

available in the guide liked to above

It's a bit of work to find an ffmpeg with lamemp3 encoding features for some reason as well.

all precompiled versions i've found are compiled with lame.

gl