[MEncoder-users] Better mp4 container support being worked on?

Alex Samad alex at samad.com.au
Wed Apr 30 22:12:13 CEST 2008


On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 03:50:51PM +0200, Bruno Hertz wrote:
> 
> Hi guys
> 
> anybody knowing whether better libavformat, especially mp4, muxing
> support is being worked on? Right now it seems to be pretty much
> broken ...
> 
> I know the docs says mencoder was built around avi, but I guess muxing
> into more advanced containers (mp4,mkv) is something quite some people
> would love being able to.
> 
> Reason I ask is that I use mencoder for tv grabbing and would very
> much like to encode the stream into AVC/AAC. Putting that into an avi
> file obviously doesn't make much sense. And muxing into mp4 even
> without using bframes or any advanced x264 settings gives invalid
> files right now.
> 
> If I could find another cmdline app which did grabbing that well as
> mencoder I wouldn't ask, but it's just so good at it - and many other
> things - that those format constraints really become a severely
> limiting factor.
> 
> Thanks, Bruno.

Me too

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