[MEncoder-users] Creating Youtube-compliant H.264 content

[Grozdan]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Hi Grozdan,
>
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 01:30:15PM +0200, Grozdan wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Adrian Glaubitz
>> <glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I have been trying to capture some old VHS videos with a bt8x8-based
>> > analog capture card which worked nicely so far. However, when I tried
>> > to upload the video, Youtube's upload script complaint that the video
>> > I have uploaded could not be converted. I used the following command
>> > line to capture and encode with libx264 (the video has no sound, thats
>> > why I disabled it):
>> >
>> > mencoder -v -tv \
>> > driver=v4l2:input=2:norm=PAL:alsa:adevice=hw.1,0:immediatemode=0 tv:// \
>> > -ovc x264 -of lavf -lavfopts format=mp4 -o output.mp4 -nosound
>>
>> Stop using broken lavf muxer with mencoder. Output to avi, then use mp4box
>
> Thanks a lot for your quick reply, I will give it a try! Is lavf known
> to be broken and going to be removed soon?

No, it's rather mencoder that's broken with the lavf muxer. lavf is
part of ffmpeg and works there without issues, but in mencoder it
doesn't work (esp if you use b-frames, which are on by default)

>
> Adrian
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