[mythtv-users] transcoding video for a Sony Bravia TV

[John Pilkington]

On 10/02/16 17:37, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>
> Does someone have a working example for a command line transcoding with
> mencoder or ffmpeg that produces working files for a Sony Bravia 42W655A
> TV set?
>
> I found out that it only supports maximal file size of 2 GB but even
> with splitting files I don't get it working :-(
>
> I tried with different extensions like .mpg .mp4 .m2ts ... no success.
>
> various codecs ... mpeg4, mpeg2video ... the problem is that the TV
> doesn't tell me what the actual problem is.
>
> Sony tells me to use one of these formats:
>
> http://sony-eur-eu-de-web--eur.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/32500
>
> -
>
> I tried something like:
>
> ffmpeg -i 29724_20131112191300.nuv -vcodec mpeg2video -acodec copy -ab
> 448k -f vob -copyts -y file.mpg
>
> (and I used -ss etc to split the file into smaller chunks)
>
> -
>
> Source video:
>
> Input #0, nuv, from '29724_20131112191300.nuv':
>    Duration: N/A, start: 32604.946000, bitrate: N/A
>      Stream #0:0: Video: mpeg4 (Simple Profile) (DIVX / 0x58564944),
> yuv420p, 720x576 [SAR 1:1 DAR 5:4], SAR 64:45 DAR 16:9, 25 fps, 25 tbr,
> 1k tbn, 25 tbc
>      Stream #0:1: Audio: mp3 (LAME / 0x454D414C), 48000 Hz, stereo, s16p,
> 1411 kb/s
>
>
> This was a plain mythtv recording and then transcoded to NUV back then.
>
> thanks for any pointers!
> Stefan

I don't think the combination of mpeg2video and mp3 is 'normal', and 
(without checking) I'm not sure that handbrake would support .nuv

Perhaps try

ffmpeg -i 29724_20131112191300.nuv -vcodec mpeg2video -acodec mp2 file.mpg

or even

ffmpeg -i 29724_20131112191300.nuv -target pal-dvd file.mpg

HTH

John P