[MEncoder-users] Invalid fourcc (tag) in x264 in newer versions

[James Hastings-Trew]

On 11-03-02 7:28 PM, Renato Rodrigues wrote:
> Hi guys
>
> I built my own mencoder frontend some years ago to encode videos for my
> gadgets (PSP, iPhone, etc) . This worked great but the mencoder version was
> a bit old (for example no libass) so I decided to update to a newer version.
> But now the line that I always used refuses to work. The error is [mp4 @
> 00fdb898]Tag H264/0x34363248 incompatible with output codec id '28'
>
> I saw somewhere that it is due to the new strict verifications in FFmpeg but
> I can't find how to skip this verification in mencoder or wich -ffourcc
> option I need to use in order it to work.
>
> I tried -ffourcc h264, x264, avc1, mp4v and none of them worked.
>
> This is the line I'm using:
>
> mencoder -of lavf -lavfopts format=mp4 -sws 9 -srate 48000 -channels 2
> -vf-add scale=480:272,harddup -oac faac -faacopts br=96:mpeg=4:object=2:raw
> -ovc x264 -ffourcc H264 -x264encopts
> crf=22:level_idc=30:bframes=3:frameref=2:global_header:partitions=all:threads=auto
> -subfont-text-scale 3.5 -subpos 96 -subcp ISO8859-1 -sub
> "Fringe.S03E15.HDTV.XviD-LOL.srt" "Fringe.S03E15.HDTV.XviD-LOL.avi" -o
> "Fringe.S03E15.HDTV.XviD-LOL_pspwide.mp4"
>
> and this is the mencoder version
>
> MEncoder Sherpya-SVN-r32848-4.2.5
>
> Forgive me if this is a newbie question, but I swear, I searched everywhere
> before posting here.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Renato Rodrigues, Brazil
I could be wrong but I am pretty sure ffourcc is an option for .avi files.

Also, lose the bframes - they won't work in a lavf muxer.