On Sun, 06 Jan 2013 07:22:05 -0800 Yan Seiner <yan@seiner.com> wrote:
I think I've finally figured it out.... Looks like anything later than ffmpeg 0.5 can't transcode for the roku, or at least for my first generation roku. (?) Fingers crossed but so far 2 short tests and everything seems to be in order. Transcoding the first full length movie as I write this.
yan@selene:~/vob$ ffmpeg -v FFmpeg version 0.5.10, Copyright (c) 2000-2012 Fabrice Bellard, et al. configuration: --enable-libx264 --enable-libfaac --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree libavutil 49.15. 0 / 49.15. 0 libavcodec 52.20. 1 / 52.20. 1 libavformat 52.31. 0 / 52.31. 0 libavdevice 52. 1. 0 / 52. 1. 0 built on Jan 6 2013 07:05:22, gcc: 4.3.3
This is the invocation line. I am running latest libx264....
ffmpeg -y -i $1.vob -acodec libfaac -ab 128k -vcodec libx264 -vpre normal -crf 22 -threads 0 -r 23.976 -f mp4 $1.mp4 qt-faststart $1.mp4 /data21/rtmovies/$1.mp4
Here's what mediainfo says:
yan@selene:/data21/rtmovies$ mediainfo redwings.mp4 General Complete name : redwings.mp4 Format : MPEG-4 Format profile : Base Media Codec ID : isom File size : 10.8 MiB Duration : 2mn 3s Overall bit rate mode : Variable Overall bit rate : 734 Kbps Writing application : Lavf52.31.0
Video ID : 1 Format : AVC Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec Format profile : High@L3.0 Format settings, CABAC : Yes Format settings, ReFrames : 2 frames Codec ID : avc1 Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding Duration : 2mn 3s Bit rate : 601 Kbps Width : 720 pixels Height : 480 pixels Display aspect ratio : 16:9 Frame rate mode : Constant Frame rate : 23.976 fps Standard : NTSC Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 8 bits Scan type : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.073 Stream size : 8.85 MiB (82%) Writing library : x264 core 129 r2230 1cffe9f Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=2 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=hex / subme=6 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=0 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=0 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=3 / lookahead_threads=1 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=0 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=22.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.41 / aq=1:1.00
How about you copy the libx264 profile files in ffmpeg 0.5.10 into the latest ffmpeg profile files folder?