[mythtv-users] OT: FFMPEG conversion

[Brent Norris]

James Oltman wrote:
> I get a similar error when I try to transcode a .mod file to mpeg4 avi
> 
> 
>     [mpeg4 @ 0x2190180]timebase not supported by mpeg 4 standard
>     Error while opening codec for output stream #0.0 - maybe incorrect
>     parameters such as bit_rate, rate, width or height
> 
>     The command I found to do it from the internet was:
> 
>     ffmpeg -vcodec mpeg4 -s 720x576 -b 9600k -aspect 16:9 -acodec mp3
>     -ab 192k -ar 48000 -i Playing.MOD Playing.avi
> 
>     I think I know what most of it means, but I don't know why it won't
>     encode it for me.  Can anyone help?
> 
>     Brent
> 
> 
> The whole command/error would be nice.  I'm wondering if you have the 
> right audio rate defined.  Instead of '-ar 48000' try '-ar 44100'.
> 
> Jim

Here it is:

[root at Diablo New Camera]# ffmpeg -vcodec mpeg4 -s 720x576 -b 9600k 
-aspect 16:9                                              -acodec mp3 
-ab 192k -ar 44100 -i Playing\ Match\ Game.MOD Playing\ Match\ Game. 
                                          avi
FFmpeg version 0.5-30.fc10, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
   configuration: --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 
--shlibdir=/usr/lib64 --mandi 
   r=/usr/share/man --enable-shared --enable-gpl --enable-postproc 
--enable-swscale 
--enable-avfilter --enable-avfilter-lavf --enable-pthreads 
--enable-x11grab --e 
nable-vdpau --disable-avisynth --disable-libamr-nb --disable-libamr-wb 
--enable-                                             libdc1394 
--enable-libdirac --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-libfaadbi 
                                            n --enable-libgsm 
--enable-libmp3lame --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex 
                                     --enable-libtheora 
--enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --extra 
                                  -cflags=-O2 -g -pipe -Wall 
-Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protecto 
                           r --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 
-mtune=generic -fPIC --disable-stripping --extr 
                     a-cflags=-I/usr/include/nvidia-graphics 
--extra-ldflags=-L/usr/lib64/nvidia-grap 
              hics
   libavutil     49.15. 0 / 49.15. 0
   libavcodec    52.20. 0 / 52.20. 0
   libavformat   52.31. 0 / 52.31. 0
   libavdevice   52. 1. 0 / 52. 1. 0
   libavfilter    0. 4. 0 /  0. 4. 0
   libswscale     0. 7. 1 /  0. 7. 1
   libpostproc   51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
   built on Mar 15 2009 13:30:30, gcc: 4.3.2 20081105 (Red Hat 4.3.2-7)
[mpeg4 @ 0x2684680]header damaged

Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: inf 
(1/0) ->                                              90000.00 (90000/1)
Input #0, mpeg, from 'Playing Match Game.MOD':
   Duration: 00:10:11.51, start: 0.287489, bitrate: 5996 kb/s
     Stream #0.0[0x1e0]: Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 90k tbr, 90k tbn
     Stream #0.1[0x80]: Audio: mp3, 0 channels, s16
File 'Playing Match Game.avi' already exists. Overwrite ? [y/N] y
Output #0, avi, to 'Playing Match Game.avi':
     Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, q=2-31, 9600 kb/s, 90k tbn, 90k tbc
     Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 0 channels, s16, 192 kb/s
Stream mapping:
   Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
   Stream #0.1 -> #0.1
[mpeg4 @ 0x2669180]timebase not supported by mpeg 4 standard
Error while opening codec for output stream #0.0 - maybe incorrect 
parameters su                                             ch as 
bit_rate, rate, width or height
[root at Diablo New Camera]#

That is with the 44100 change.