mp3 + jpg -> avi/mp4/mkv?

[disgust]

looking for a gui tool that will let me batch convert mp3 with a jpg (for a still background "video" the whole time) to a video format.. any tips?

[disgust]

anyone?

does this belong in a different forum?

[Bjs]

Welcome disgust.

Any number of app's can do it ... picasa, WMM, wax2 ... just a matter of knowing which buttons to click for required output.

And then again ... what is your current operating system ?

[Baldrick]

If you like command line tools you can use ffmpeg, something like

ffmpeg -i image.jpg -i audio.mp3 -f image2 -loop_input -vcodec x264 -acodec copy -shortest newvideo.mp4

See https://sites.google.com/site/linuxencoding/ffmpeg-tips

[disgust]

i'm on windows 7. my requirements are just that it be able to be done in batch, preferably with a gui. can SUPER do this?

[Cornucopia]

No, Super doesn't do that.

What's so difficult with that command line? It's not like Win7 can't do that.

Scott

[yetanotherlogin]

ffmpeg -i image.jpg -i audio.mp3 -f image2 -loop_input -vcodec x264 -acodec copy -shortest newvideo.mp4

What does "-f image2" do?

Running "ffmpeg.exe -h" shows this:

-f fmt force format
-loop_input deprecated, use -loop

Also, I get this error using "-vcodec x264":

Unknown encoder 'x264'

Next, I tried "-vcodec libx264", to no avail:

...
[mp3 @ 02109020] max_analyze_duration 5000000 reached at 5015510
...
[libx264 @ 02665020] width not divisible by 2 (465x315)
...
Error while opening encoder for output stream #0:0 - maybe incorrect parameters such as bit_rate, rate, width or height

Which video codec is recommended to upload a file to YouTube?

Thank you.

[bat999]

Hi
The syntax has changed.
Use this instead:-

ffmpeg -loop 1 -i image.jpg -i audio.mp3 -shortest -c:v libx264 -c:a copy newvideo.mp4

[yetanotherlogin]

Thanks for the tip. For some reason, I get the following errors:

[image2 @ 02102320] max_analyze_duration 5000000 reached at 5000000
[mp3 @ 02A16B00] max_analyze_duration 5000000 reached at 5015510
[libx264 @ 028F2560] width not divisible by 2 (465x315)
Error while opening encoder for output stream #0:0 - maybe incorrect parameters such as bit_rate, rate, width or height

I also tried this, which seems to work but turns a 40MB MP3 file into a 262MB AVI file

ffmpeg -f image2 -loop_input -i picture.jpg -i audio.mp3 -vcodec mpeg1video -qscale 2 -acodec copy -shortest output.avi
...
Truncating packet of size 1024 to 546
Truncating packet of size 1024 to 1

FWIW, I'm using ffmpeg.exe version 0.10.1.

[bat999]

Thanks for the tip. For some reason, I get the following errors:

[image2 @ 02102320] max_analyze_duration 5000000 reached at 5000000
[mp3 @ 02A16B00] max_analyze_duration 5000000 reached at 5015510
[libx264 @ 028F2560] width not divisible by 2 (465x315)
Error while opening encoder for output stream #0:0 - maybe incorrect parameters such as bit_rate, rate, width or height

.

...

[yetanotherlogin]

Sorry about that. I didn't expect ffmpeg to fail simply because of the picture.

After resizing it so that width/height are divisible by 2, the command ran successfully to generate the MP4 file (50 MB).

Thank you.