[FFmpeg-user] TV won't play file :

[Sophie Loewenthal]

Dear Kieran,

This solved the problem and the video plays.  
Thank you lots.

Regards,
Sophie 





> On 16 Jan 2019, at 09:03, Kieran O Leary <kieran.o.leary at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2019, 17:36 Sophie Loewenthal <sophie at klunky.co.uk wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have a video encoded like this ( that was sent to me ).
>> 
>> ffprobe gave me the details:
>> Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p(tv, bt709/bt709/unknown),
>> 1920x800, 2091 kb/s, 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 24k tbn, 47.95 tbc (default)
>> 
>> It won’t play on my TV ( Philip 24PFS5303/12) which has played every x264
>> file I’ve thrown at it until it met this one. However this film plays fine
>> on VLC and MacOS’ preview option (by pressing spacebar on a file )
>> 
>> I wonder if the problem is related to the colorspace that is written
>> "unknown"  in "tv, bt709/bt709/unknown".
>> If som can I just encode this into something else.  Or perhaps the TV
>> doesn’t like bt709.
>> 
> 
> Just out of curiosity,could you try
> ffmpeg -i input -c copy -map 0 output.mp4
> And see if that works with the TV?
> I doubt that the lack of colour information would cause the TV to not play
> it.
> I'm assuming that it is MP4 as you haven't shown the full console output so
> I don't know the container, but perhaps just rewrapping it in a new MP4 or
> mkv container will do the trick.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Kieran
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> e.g this file will play on the TV:
>> Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p, 1280x720 [SAR 1:1 DAR
>> 16:9], 811 kb/s, 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 96k tbn, 47.95 tbc (default)
>> 
>> 
>> Best,
>> Sophie
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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