[mythtv-users] Can't play x264 encoded video, mythfrontend crash

[jedi]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 09:27:46PM -0800, Andreas wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 06. Februar 2008 21:11:09 schrieb Taco Mel:
[deletia]
> > 3) I transcoded one longer recording (2 hours 15
> > minutes) and achieved an impressive reduction from 5.0
> > GB to 1.3 GB.  However this recording did not do well
> > in Myth.  It played fine but when I did any skipping,
> > the progress bar indicated the "new" position but the
> > video itself was not advanced, audio or video.  After
> > a few seconds the player crashed.  This recording
> > plays and looks great in mplayer and skips around as
> > it should.
> >
> > Can anyone give some answers or advice on where to
> > look to resolve these issues?  Or is playing H.264
> > content with the internal MythTV player just not
> > feasible at this time?
> 
> I have similar issues with h264-encoded videos created with mencoder. No 
> sound whatsoever. I am using h264-encode with a 3-pass-approach.
> 
> Would you mind sharing the 2-pass commandlines for mencoder you are using? 

   It sounds like you might be trying to play a bogus audio track.

   When I was first starting out with mencoder, I would end up playing
the wrong audio track and the dialog would be in some other language.

   Here's an example from what I use...

   This is pass 1 of 2 but the audio language options are in there.

   mencoder -v TNDSE.2-1.vob -ovc x264 \
   -x264encopts subq=4:bframes=4:b_pyramid:weight_b:pass=1:psnr:bitrate=1500:turbo=1 \
-vf crop=720:360 -lavcopts aspect=16/9 -oac copy \
-alang en -slang en -aid 128 -ofps 24000/1001 \
-vobsubout TNDSE -vobsuboutindex 0 -o /dev/null