[FFmpeg-user] Trouble converting MOD file to anything else

[Guy Helmer]

On May 16, 2013, at 5:47 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:

> Guy Helmer <guy.helmer <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> I have tried a number of approaches to transcode a 
>> new set of MOD files to MPG, AVI, or MP4 to clean 
>> them up for use in iMovie but nothing has worked 
>> for me with ffmpeg 1.2.1 (it used to work with an 
>> older version of ffmpeg from roughly a year ago).
> 
> Please provide an input sample.
> 
> Carl Eugen


I have made a 30-second sample file available at:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3877340/MOV001.MOD

ffmpeg output for this file:

ffmpeg version 1.2.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers
  built on May 15 2013 13:13:12 with Apple clang version 4.1 (tags/Apple/clang-421.11.66) (based on LLVM 3.1svn)
  configuration: --prefix=/opt/local --enable-swscale --enable-avfilter --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libopus --enable-libtheora --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libmodplug --enable-libvpx --enable-libspeex --enable-libfreetype --mandir=/opt/local/share/man --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --cc=/usr/bin/clang --arch=x86_64 --enable-yasm --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid
  libavutil      52. 18.100 / 52. 18.100
  libavcodec     54. 92.100 / 54. 92.100
  libavformat    54. 63.104 / 54. 63.104
  libavdevice    54.  3.103 / 54.  3.103
  libavfilter     3. 42.103 /  3. 42.103
  libswscale      2.  2.100 /  2.  2.100
  libswresample   0. 17.102 /  0. 17.102
  libpostproc    52.  2.100 / 52.  2.100
[libmodplug @ 0x7fe1d9829c00] Max file size reach (see -max_size), allocating 5242880B but demuxing is likely to fail due to incomplete buffer
[libmodplug @ 0x7fe1d9829c00] max_analyze_duration 5000000 reached at 5000000 microseconds
Guessed Channel Layout for  Input Stream #0.0 : stereo
Input #0, libmodplug, from 'MOV001.MOD':
  Metadata:
    name            :    ?D
    sample          :    ?D
                    : ??? ????? ??:
                    : 0panasonic0120201U01
                    :          S   dvdvrx010
                    : c0120201U01    SN Mdvd
                    : nasonic0120201U01    M
                    :   Y?           '
                    :   dvdvrx010panasonic01
                    :     SI
    extra info      : 1 pattern, 4 channels, 9/15 samples
  Duration: 00:00:08.00, bitrate: 16939 kb/s
    Stream #0:0: Audio: pcm_s16le, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16, 1411 kb/s
Output #0, mp4, to 'MOV001.MP4':
  Metadata:
    name            :    ?D
    sample          :    ?D
                    : ??? ????? ??:
                    : 0panasonic0120201U01
                    :          S   dvdvrx010
                    : c0120201U01    SN Mdvd
                    : nasonic0120201U01    M
                    :   Y?           '
                    :   dvdvrx010panasonic01
                    :     SI
    extra info      : 1 pattern, 4 channels, 9/15 samples
    encoder         : Lavf54.63.104
    Stream #0:0: Audio: aac ([64][0][0][0] / 0x0040), 44100 Hz, stereo, fltp, 192 kb/s
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (pcm_s16le -> aac)
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
size=       6kB time=00:00:05.38 bitrate=   9.4kbits/s    
video:0kB audio:2kB subtitle:0 global headers:0kB muxing overhead 205.725376%

Thanks for any assistance!

Guy