[MPlayer-users] MP4 file format

[B. Bell]

On 25 Jul 2003, Erik Slagter wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > > So far I have found only one suite of programs that will produce mp4
> > > files using Linux, mpeg4ip. I can't use it though, as my tv card is
> > > mounted in a box without monitor or X installed. The mpeg4ip grabber
> > > application depends on running a box with X installed as it has a
> > > graphical ui and uses the X11 shared memory extension, so I cannot
> > > redirect it to my desktop machine.
> > man mp4live - it will run in headless mode
>
> Yeah, right. I was thinking the same, but you need the gui for the
> settings. I "faked" that on a another machine and copied the settings
> file. This took me to the next problem though - all sorts of
> segmentation faults and weird file contents (not playable by any
> program, not even mpeg4ip itself). It seems that the code is not quite
> mature yet.

The rc file format is pretty simple, you should be able to edit it by
hand.
It is really flakey though sometimes it works fine, sometimes it crashes.
IIRC, setting certain combinations of bitrates causes it to crash every
time.

>
> BTW if you compile mpeg4ip, it will include all libraries you already
> installed as a shared library, but then statically and from it's own
> suppplied sources. Not nice.

heh, not at all.

-Brad