[MPlayer-users] Dropping x264 into an MP4 Container

[Ivan Kowalenko]

On Feb 5, 2008, at 00.59, Troy Perkins wrote:

> I can't say much on x264 and/or h264 due to lack of experience with  
> it. However, I can tell you that I've had great success with xvid in  
> an avi container preserving the AC3 DD 5.1 with copy.  Flawless  
> playback on xbox 360 via WMP 11, even the navigation works great.

The thing is I'm working with 100% non-Microsoft tools and hardware  
(exception being the XBox and XBox 360). I'm aware of the first party  
support for XviD and AC3 in an AVI container, but the sad fact is that  
my system is rather old, and unless I could hijack one or two cores  
out of the 360 for transcoding duty, I'd likely be at this for weeks.  
Thanks for the advice, though.

P.S. Before you consider mentioning using VLC to do a real-time  
transcode, I ought to forewarn you that my 1 GHz PPC doesn't have  
enough pull to decode these videos in real-time, let alone encode to  
XviD in real-time. Just trying to let you know what options I'm aware  
of and have explored.

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:mplayer-users-bounces at mplayerhq.hu] On Behalf Of Ivan  
> Kowalenko
> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 11:40 PM
> To: bug reports MPlayer usage questions feature requests
> Subject: [MPlayer-users] Dropping x264 into an MP4 Container
>
> So, I've recently gotten my hands on an XBox 360, and I'm trying to
> use it as a sort of media center machine. I've got some rather unique
> video files containing video with a FOURCC reading "h264" (I'm
> assuming it's encoded with x264, but I don't know) and audio of AC3. I
> planned to convert the AC3 to AAC and drop it all into an MP4
> container. I've been tinkering with MPlayer/MEncoder, VLC and
> QuickTime. QuickTime refused to drop the H.264 into an MP4 container
> (pass-through), I changed the FOURCC to "avc1" so it would use the
> internal H.264 decoder instead of the Perian codec. I've got it to the
> point where I can read the H.264/AAC file wrapped in a MOV container,
> but I can't seem to successfully get it into something the XBox likes.
> After extracting the video and isolating it in its own MP4 file, the
> machine still doesn't like it, even though it's identifying as "avc1".
>
> Anyway, I'm just wondering: what possible differences between an H.264
> video stream and x264 stream, and is there any way to get around
> having to re-encode the whole thing? Thanks!
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