[MEncoder-users] Ipod Video (or missing aac encoding in lavc)

[Fredrik Eriksson]

Everett wrote:
> On Monday 09 July 2007 03:06, Fredrik Eriksson wrote:
>   
>> Everett wrote:
>>     
>>> I was struggling to make ipod compatible vids also; I googled
>>> around and found a script called "podencoder."  It works well
>>> for using x264 and faac.  It uses MP4Box (part of GPAC) to
>>> convert the avi to mp4.  here is the website:
>>>
>>> http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/06/07/howto-batch-encode-
>>> video-for-ipod-under-linux-2007-edition
>>>
>>> I ended up using my own commands so that I could play around
>>> with some -vf options.  I didn't try it with 640x480. 
>>> something like this should work for a dvd, and I want to say
>>> that most of the x264encopts I pulled out of that very
>>> excellent "podencoder" script.
>>>
>>> mplayer dvd://1 -dumpstream -dumpfile out.vob
>>>
>>> mencoder -oac faac -faacopts br=128:object=2 -channels 2 -srate
>>> 48000 -ovc x264 -x264encopts
>>> pass=1:turbo=1:bitrate=500:vbv_maxrate=768:vbv_bufsize=244:noca
>>> bac:level_idc=13 -vf scale=448:-10,harddup -ofps 24000/1001
>>> in.vob -o out.avi
>>>
>>> mencoder -oac faac -faacopts br=128:object=2 -channels 2 -srate
>>> 48000 -ovc x264 -x264encopts
>>> pass=2:bitrate=500:vbv_maxrate=768:vbv_bufsize=244:nocabac:leve
>>> l_idc=13:qcomp=0.7:me=umh:frameref=5:subq=6:partitions=all:trell
>>> is=1:direct_pred=auto:threads=auto -vf scale=448:-10,harddup
>>> -ofps 24000/1001 in.vob -o out.avi
>>>
>>> MP4Box -aviraw video out.avi
>>> MP4Box -aviraw audio out.avi
>>> mv out_audio.raw out.aac
>>> mv out_video.h264 out.h264
>>> MP4Box -add out.aac out.mp4
>>> MP4Box -add out.h264:fps=23.976 out.mp4
>>>       
>> This is strange... I tried to use the *exact* same command (with
>> the exceptions of using another input file, using -af-adv force=1
>> for sane resampling, and muxing with 24 fps (same as input file)
>> instead of 23.976), but it won't even play in quicktime (just
>> like all other attempts I've done).
>>
>> I was starting to think that the lavf muxer was broken, since I
>> even got segfaults when trying to remux the mplayer output files
>> with MP4Box, but if this is supposed to work, then it seems like
>> there is something strange with my mencoder... I've tried with
>> revision 23744 (today) as well as the latest gentoo ebuild (from
>> 22 june), none of them gave any result...
>>
>> any other ideas?
>>
>>     
> you could try rebuilding x264?  
>   

Tried that now, still no luck... latest svn of mencoder and x264 is from 
2007-03-25 (latest gentoo ebuild).