[MPlayer-users] Solved! (was Re: Problem: some videos freeze, other very similar videos do not--difference might be just in resolution (pixels)--how to convert?)

[Randy Kramer]

On Friday 21 October 2011 04:48:12 pm Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 10/21/2011 03:39 PM, Randy Kramer wrote:
> > (Other conversions that I tried, like to .avi format resulted in files
> > about the same size, but noticeable deterioration in the video (and
> > preserved the 1000 fps, which seemed not to cause a problem (as a .avi)
> > for mplayer.)
>
> Interesting.  What about to .mp4?

I haven't tried .mp4--I might, but I won't be in any hurry to do so.  The 
conversion I called avi shows this when played in mplayer--is MPEG-4 the same 
as or related to .mp4?  As noted above, the conversion to .avi seemed to play 
fine consistently, but had noticeable deterioration in the video.

Randy Kramer

AVI file format detected.
[aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0
[aviheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
VIDEO:  [FMP4]  320x240  24bpp  29.917 fps  205.3 kbps (25.1 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
 Software: Lavf52.16.0
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 64.0 kbit/4.54% (ratio: 8000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================