.mov to .avi

[mlindber]

Hi, I'm trying to get my .mov file to .avi (xvid format) and am having problems. Every time I import a .mov into ffmpegX and choose encode, it does the video fine, but the sound is never converted. Is there a specific format the audio needs to be in in the .mov for whatever is decoding to recognize it?

As an alternate solution, is there a way to interleave a .avi video with a .mp3 soundtrack?

[SCB]

What app are you using to view the AVI, Quicktime? If so, that's why it seems that the audio isn't being converted. Open it in VLC or MPlayer and you should be able to here the audio. You'll need to use DiVX Doctor to here the audio in Quicktime.

[mlindber]

What app are you using to view the AVI, Quicktime? If so, that's why it seems that the audio isn't being converted. Open it in VLC or MPlayer and you should be able to here the audio. You'll need to use DiVX Doctor to here the audio in Quicktime.

I don't think you understand my dilemma.

The audio is never converted. I use ffmpegX to encode it to .avi, and it recognizes the video track on the .mov, but it never recognizes the audio track, leaving me with just a video file (there is no sound, not in VLC, mplayer, or quicktime).

I'd like to get audio on the .avi

[ZeroSix]

Interesting... Have you considered MediaPipe? Maybe that would work...

Also, what format is the audio in your .mov file? MP3? PCM? MP4? This might also be a factor.

have you tried exporting your .mov to .avi in quicktime and then running the resulting .avi through ff?

Does mencoder play quicktime? You might be able to use mencoder to convert it to a different format that ff would accept as well.

I am leaning more towards Mediapipe because it has more flexibility if you know what options to add, and i believe it supports Xvid...

And i think it has a Quicktime demuxer and an AVI muxer, which is what you are looking for to interleave the audio and video.

I'll play around with it tomorrow night and let you know.

Keep me updated.

[mlindber]

Thanks for the help. I found a PARTIAL solution using ffmpegX. Take the .mov file and a seperate .mp3 file (the original audio was 48khz stereo 16 bit AIFF, BTW, but anything in the .mov file was ignored), set the .mov to be the input file, and then select "Add Audio" in the audio tab, and select the .mp3 file. Fix all the other settings, and click encode.

The problem is that I can only get it to encode in 5 second test form. When I do the whole thing, it just freezes at the encoding:

Skipping frame!
Pos: 0.0s 1f ( 0%) 0fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V: NaN [0:0]

I'm going to try combining the .avi video only with a .aac that I got from Media Pipe. I've looked at Media Pipe a lot, and the only test that has been successful is converting audio to .aac, which doesn't even play in Quicktime. I'm very tempted just to buy Quicktime 6 Pro and just do an Apple MPEG-4, even if the quality will be worse.

[cthulhu11]

What app are you using to view the AVI, Quicktime? If so, that's why it seems that the audio isn't being converted. Open it in VLC or MPlayer and you should be able to here the audio. You'll need to use DiVX Doctor to here the audio in Quicktime.

A file that isn't universally playable is worthless. VLC and MPlayer aren't and probably shouldn't be the defaults for most people, and don't help my wife's M$ Windows machine.

If DiVX Doctor can fix the file, why not fix ffmpeg and mencoder to spit out correct output in the first place? If this stuff can be done on M$-OS, why not on OSX?

[major]

Here is an AVI muxer.