[FFmpeg-user] Poor quality output when converting avi to mp4

[Ute Willmore]

Gyan,

I am having trouble with mp4box and I am hoping you can help me once again.
I downloaded and installed the 32 bit and 64 bit version of GPAC but when I
try to run either one, I get errors or a file that won't play. I am running
mp4box on the cmd line using this command:

mp4box -aviraw video hdout.mp4

But the 32 bit version produces a file I cannot play with media player or
mplayer.

I repeated the command using the 64 bit version, but I get a message saying
the applicatiThis is on the 64 on started wrong and to click ok to close it.

So I looked around some and found an example for converting avi to mp4
using mp4vbox and tried it:

mp4box.exe -add hd.avi hdout.mp4

But I get:

Unfortunately, mp4box.exe had stopped working.

This was using the 64 bit version.

What am I doing wrong? I got both version from the GPAC download page here:

https://gpac.wp.imt.fr/downloads/ using the links in the first paragraph
labeled Windows 32 bits and Windows 64 bits.

When installation was done, I copied the exe files to a local driectory and
renamed on to mp4box32.exe and left the 64 bit version named mp4box.exe.
That way I know for sure which version I am running and I have all the
files in one sub-directory on my desktop where I am working using the
command prompt.

When I got the error saying mp4box stopped running, I started using the
mp4box executable in program files by using the full path to tghe
executable butIstill get the error.

Please help if you can.

Ute

Ute



On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Gyan <gyandoshi at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 1:10 AM, Ute Willmore <uwillmore at remotegeo.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > What is non-standard about my input video?
> >
>
> That I don't know. Only that ffmpeg doesn't decode most of the frames from
> the original file.
>
>
> > I ran many conversion commands, and listed several of them in my original
> > message. Which one did you use?
> >
>
> 'ffmpeg  -v verbose -i hd.avi -vf scale=640:480 scaledoutput.mp4'
>
> What does "Muxing to TS" mean and why/how did you do that? What does
> > "Invalid NAL warnings mean?
> >
>
> H.264 data is stored in chunks called NAL units. I transferred the contents
> to another container format just to test the result, so you can ignore this
> part.
>
>
>
> > Is this the one you are using?
> > https://www.videohelp.com/software/MP4Box
> >
>
> Yes, but this is the download page at the official site:
> https://gpac.wp.imt.fr/downloads/gpac-nightly-builds/
>
> mp4box is one of the tools bundled.
>
>
> > Do you have any idea what needs to be done to
> > produce a standard avi video in the first place?
> >
>
> How are these AVIs produced?
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