[MEncoder-users] Script for h264 conversion for mencoder

[Grozdan Nikolov (openSUSE Linux)]

On Monday 21 January 2008 12:47, Cameron Just wrote:
> Thanks for all that info.... converted using what you suggested and
> unfortunately still not working even the alternate options you said to
> try...
>
> I also realised based on
> http://blogs.msdn.com/xboxteam/archive/2007/05/09/spring-07-video-playback-
>faq.aspx
>
> that the filenames has to be one of .mp4, .m4v, mp4v, .mov
>
> Tried all of these extensions and still not working..

extensions != containers

you have to remux the AVI file from mencoder to the MP4 container, use MP4Box 
for that from the gpac package

MP4Box -aviraw video file.avi
MP4Box -aviraw audio file.avi

rename the exported audio file to audio.aac

MP4Box -add file.h264 -add audio.aac output.mp4

>
> It could also be because I am using windows media player 11 to
> communicate with the xbox 360... I do not have windows media centre
> edition... this could be another limitation?
>
> I can't wait till they hack these xbox 360's and we can have a similar
> app to xbox media centre on this... that uses mplayer for playback and
> can playback anything without all these retarded restrictions..
>
> Thanks again for all your help this appears to be a fruitless exercise
>
> Grozdan Nikolov (openSUSE Linux) wrote:
> > On Monday 21 January 2008 12:20, Cameron Just wrote:
> >> Thankyou for that Grozdan can you please give me the -oac component as
> >> well.. I have encoded the video part just waiting for the xbox 360 to
> >> see it on the media share now before I can test it...
> >
> > -oac faac -faacopts mpeg=4:br=128:object=2
> >
> > also, if the video still doesn't work, you might want to decrease
> > B-Frames usage to 3 and disable b_pyramid with the nob_pyramid option.
> > Also consider upgrading the firmware of your XBOX
> >
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >>> this is directly taken from my XBOX360 profile from h264enc. I haven't
> >>> tested it as I don't have an XBOX myself but the options used are taken
> >>> from the RipBot264 program for Windows. this is for a 1-pass encode
> >>>
> >>> -ovc x264 -x264encopts
> >>> bitrate=1000:me=umh:me_range=24:nodct_decimate:nointerlaced:8x8dct:thre
> >>>ad
> >>> s=auto:nofast_pskip:trellis=1:partitions=p8x8,b8x8,i8x8,i4x4:mixed_refs
> >>>:bi
> >>> me:keyint=250:keyint_min=25:frameref=3:bframes=6:b_adapt:b_pyramid:weig
> >>>ht_
> >>> b:direct_pred=auto:subq=6:brdo:chroma_me:cabac:deblock:nossim:nopsnr:le
> >>>vel _idc=41
>
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