[MEncoder-users] Sony DSC-M1 files

[Rick Richardson]

On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 01:36:39PM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Saturday, 22 January 2005 at 03:04, Rick Richardson wrote:
> > 
> > I have videos produced by the Sony DSC-M1 video camera.  They are
> > mpeg-4, as shown below.  mplayer works OK on these files.  But
> > when I play them on a Philips DVP642 player only the video plays.
> > 
> > I would like to re-encode them so that they use something different
> > for the audio.
> 
> Just follow what's in the docs:
> mencoder -ovc copy -oac mp3lame -lameopts=.... -o movie.avi movie.mp4
> 
> One note: the resulting file will have an AVI container, as MEncoder
> is incapable of creating MP4-contained files.
> 
> R.

Oh boy...

$ mencoder -ovc copy -oac mp3lame -o test.avi m4v00035.mp4
MEncoder 1.0pre6-RPM-3.3.2 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices  (Family: 8, Stepping: 0)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: Type: 8 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection.
File not found: 'frameno.avi'
Failed to open frameno.avi
success: format: 0  data: 0x0 - 0x70bf9e
ISO: Unknown File Type Major Brand: MSNV
QuickTime/MOV file format detected.
--------------
MOV track #0: 42 chunks, 619 samples
MOV: Found MPEG4 movie Elementary Stream Descriptor atom (65)!
Image size: 640 x 480 (24 bpp)
Display size: 640 x 480
Fourcc: mp4v  Codec: ''
--------------
MOV track #1: 42 chunks, 484 samples
Audio bits: 16  chans: 2  rate: 24000
MOV: Found MPEG4 audio Elementary Stream Descriptor atom (39)!
Fourcc: mp4a
--------------
MOV: longest streams: A: #1 (484 samples)  V: #0 (619 samples)
VIDEO:  [mp4v]  640x480  24bpp  29.970 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:7  fourcc:0x7634706D  size:640x480  fps:29.97  ftime:=0.0334
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 16000->192000 (128.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [faad] afm:faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG2/MPEG4 Audio) decoder)
==========================================================================
videocodec: framecopy (640x480 24bpp fourcc=7634706d)
MP3 audio selected
Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/16bit -> 48000Hz/2ch/16bit...
Writing AVI header...
ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)


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