[MEncoder-users] Script for h264 conversion for mencoder

[Cameron Just]

SUCCESS!!!

Thankyou Grozdan.... it appears it was a container issue all along... I 
have a bit more to learn I think... time to do some more reading...

Ok now I can work towards getting a nice clean script running were I can 
just drag and drop my files onto a batch file.... when it's working 
perfectly I will post it here for others who fall into this trap in the 
future...

Also another tweak that I needed to perform was to get Windows Media 
Player to allow adding of mp4 files to the library... required a 
registry tweak and all the details can be found here
http://owlet.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!D48B90C1DDF5D401!297.entry

Thankyou again everyone for your help...


Grozdan Nikolov (openSUSE Linux) wrote:
> 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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