[MEncoder-users] XBOX 360 transcode

[Pawel Pietkiewicz]

A sample which plays perfectly under XBOX 360 (converted using VisualHub for
Mac) can be found at:
http://platinum.emulate.us/files/hotfuzzsample.mp4

These are the tech specs I've gathered from the XBOX dev team's blog
(
http://blogs.msdn.com/xboxteam/archive/2007/05/09/spring-07-video-playback-faq.aspx)
:

Xbox 360 supports the following for H.264:

·         File Extensions: .mp4, .m4v, mp4v, .mov

·         Containers: MPEG-4, QuickTime

·         Video Profiles: Baseline, main, and high (up to Level 4.1)
profiles.

·         Video Bitrate: 10 Mbps with resolutions of 1920 x 1080 at 30fps.

·         Audio Profiles: 2 channel AAC low complexity (LC)
            ·         Audio Max Bitrate: No restrictions.

Not sure if this is going to help, but here is data from the head of
VisualHub's log file:

FFmpeg version SVN-r8335, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
libavutil: 49.3.0, libavcodec: 51.38.0, libavformat: 51.10.0
built:Mar 11 2007 19:51:18, gcc: 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5367),
i386
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '/Users/pawel/Desktop/p-
hf-sample.mp4':
Duration-75
start-0.000000
bitrate-990

0.0,,,(und),,Video,h264,yuv420p,640,272,25.00
0.1,,,(und),,Audio,aac,48000,2

'/Applications/VisualHub.app'/Contents/Resources/movtoy4m -w 640 -h 272 -F
25:1 -a 640:272 '/Users/platen/Desktop/''p-hf-sample.mp4' |
'/Applications/VisualHub.app'/Contents/Resources/yuvcorrect -Y
LUMINANCE_1.15_0_255_0_255 -Y CHROMINANCE_0_1.04_128_1.04_128_0_255 2>
/dev/null | '''/Library/Application Support/Techspansion/'vh123ffmpeg -y  -f
yuv4mpegpipe  -i - -threads 4  -t 120      -s 640x272 -aspect 640:272   -r
25   -vcodec h264  -g 200  -qmin 8  -b 870k  -bf 1 -level 41  -loop 1
-sc_threshold 40 -partp4x4 1 -rc_eq 'blurCplx^(1-qComp)' -refs 3  -qmax
51    -async 50  -i /tmp/vhtemp/1179286057/'p-hf-sample.mp4'.wav  -acodec
aac  -ar 48000 -ac 2 -ab 128k
'/Users/pawel/Desktop/'/'p-hf-sample.mp4'.temp.mp4
2>> /tmp/vhtemp/1179286057/visualhub_time  ; echo done >
/tmp/vhtemp/1179286057/visualhub_working
FFmpeg version SVN-r8335, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
libavutil: 49.3.0, libavcodec: 51.38.0, libavformat: 51.10.0
built:Mar 11 2007 19:51:18, gcc: 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5367),
i386
Input #0, yuv4mpegpipe, from 'pipe:':
Duration-NA
bitrate-NA

0.0,,,,,Video,rawvideo,yuv420p,640,272,25.00
Input #1, wav, from '/tmp/vhtemp/1179286057/p-hf-sample.mp4.wav':
Duration-75
start-0.000000
bitrate-1536

1.0,,,,,Audio,pcm_s16le,48000,2,1536
Output #0, mp4, to '/Users/pawel/Desktop//p-hf-sample.mp4.temp.mp4':
0.0,,,,,Video,h264,yuv420p,640,272, q=8-51,25.00
0.1,,,,,Audio,aac,48000,2,128
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
  Stream #1.0 -> #0.1
[h264 @ 0x573f94]using SAR=1/1
[h264 @ 0x573f94]using cpu capabilities MMX MMXEXT SSE SSE2

Let me know if there is anything else that may be of use. I've tried
fiddling with more mencoder options, but somehow all the files come out to
be noncompliant.

Thanks,
Pawel

On 5/15/07, Joey Parrish <joey.parrish at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/15/07, John Brown <johnbrown105 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > >From: "Pawel Pietkiewicz" <pawel.pietkiewicz at gmail.com>
> > >Thanks, but that still didn't solve the problem. I've ran the command
> > >without the passes and the 360 says the file is invalid. It plays fine
> in
> > >VLC and mplayer.
> >
> > Sorry - I was just trying to fix the error in the MEncoder output. I
> have no
> > idea
> > how to make an XBOX 360-compatible movie.
>
> Agree.  If you had, say, technical specs about what the 360 _can_
> tolerate, or a sample of a video the 360 tolerates, we could maybe
> help you produce good content.
>
> --Joey
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