[FFmpeg-user] FW: Converting AVI files and creating a DVD

[Tim Nicholson]

On 06/02/12 11:35, John Bennett wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Tim Nicholson<tim.nicholson at bbc.co.uk>  wrote:
[...]
>>
>>
>> Try using DVD Styler to author the DVD. This uses ffmpeg for transcoding source material, if required, and does proper indexing so seeking etc sghould work.
>>
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>> --
>> Tim
>
> Thanks for the reply, Tim, really appreciated!
> But.... when I try using DVDStyler, trying to do a really basic DVD,
> it either crashes on me totally, or cutting it back even more and
> running from a terminal, I get:
> *************************************************************************************
>
> decode_slice_header error
> no frame!
> get_buffer() failed (-1 0 (nil))
> decode_slice_header error
> no frame!
> Input #0, avi, from '/home/bigun/Movies/ErinWed/AVI/FILE0001.AVI':
>    Metadata:
>      date            : 2009-10-21
>      ICRT            : 13:53:08
>      comment         :
>    Duration: 00:00:10.81, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 12289 kb/s
>      Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (Main) (H264 / 0x34363248), vda_vld,
> 1280x720 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 29.97 tbn, 59.94
> tbc
>      Stream #0:1: Audio: adpcm_ima_wav ([17][0][0][0] / 0x0011), 48000
> Hz, 2 channels, s16, 384 kb/s
> Incompatible sample format 's16' for codec 'ac3', auto-selecting format 'flt'
> auto-inserting filter 'auto-inserted scale 0' between the filter 'src'
> and the filter '(null)'
> Impossible to convert between the formats supported by the filter
> 'src' and the filter 'auto-inserted scale 0'
> Error opening filters!
> Error transcoding of /home/bigun/Movies/ErinWed/AVI/FILE0001.AVI
> *************************************************************************************
> Any ideas?
> Thanks, John.


It looks like there is something "unusual" about your source file. Can 
you try and make things work with a different file so you can see how it 
should all go? That might help to narrow things down a bit.

-- 
Tim

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