[FFmpeg-user] coding video for some old Sony

[Erik Dobák]

that is great idea thank you will check specific videos next day. got to go
to bed.
cheers
E

On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 21:20, Kieran O Leary <kieran.o.leary at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> On Thu, 8 Aug 2019, 20:07 Erik Dobák, <erik.dobak at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > i have an old Sony Bravia which accepts only MPEG4 as video and MP3 as
> > audio. If i want to watch videos i do it with this command:
> >
> > ffmpeg -i the_kingdom_of_dreams_and_madness.mp4 -b:v 1M -vcodec mpeg4
> -vtag
> > xvid -acodec libmp3lame -q:a 2 the_kingdom_of_dreams_and_madness.avi
> >
> > but for some reason some video do not play at all. some do.
> >
> > is there a way that the input video could influence the output? I thought
> > that when i resample with ffmpeg to these basic codecs all will work...
> >
> Maybe frame size and bitrate? Post the complete console output of an
> instance where the file worked ok your TV and one instance where it didn't.
>
> Best,
>
> Kieran
>
>
>
> > Any hints?
> >
> > E
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