[FFmpeg-user] h264 not decoding

[Bouke]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rens Dijkshoorn" <rens at onlinemedia.nl>
To: "FFmpeg user questions and RTFMs" <ffmpeg-user at ffmpeg.org>
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 3:16 PM
Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-user] h264 not decoding


> Hi Bouke,
>
> i'am told Windows Media Player 11 can play without any problems
> en free-mts-converter found at
>
> http://www.topsevenreviews.com/free-mts-converter.html
>
> can convert into something more usefull, but i would like to handle
> the files in my ffmpeg based batch converter on a Mac.

Rens,
Perhaps copy protection stuff that is messing things up?
Where did you get the file?
And if it is a one-off, and you have means to convert it, why not use that 
and just be done with it?

Bouke


> Regards Rens
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> i would like to convert this TEST.MTS file to something more usable in
>> Avid Mediacomposer
>> but sofar all programs tested (Avid, VLC, FFmpeg, FFmbc, MpegStreamClip
>> Mplayer & Quicktime )
>> failed to decode the file properly, most of the time you get some decode
>> macroblocks at the
>> top of the picture but about 80 % remains green, we have some audio but
>> decoding is poor.
>
> Eeer, at risk of stating the obvious,
> if NOTHING can decode the file, are you sure the file isn't suffering from
> bitrot?
> What does play back the file then?
>
> Bouke
>
>
>
>> ffprobe gives the following output.
>>
>> # ffprobe -pretty TEST.MTS
>>
>> FFprobe version 0.6.1, Copyright (c) 2007-2010 the FFmpeg developers
>> built on Feb 4 2011 11:57:14 with gcc 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5664)
>> configuration:
>> arch=x86_64 --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libfaac --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264
>> --enable-gpl
>> --enable-nonfree --enable-pthreads --enable-shared
>>
>> libavutil 50.15. 1 / 50.15. 1
>> libavcodec 52.72. 2 / 52.72. 2
>> libavformat 52.64. 2 / 52.64. 2
>> libavdevice 52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0
>> libswscale 0.11. 0 / 0.11. 0
>>
>> [h264 @ 0x101009200]top block unavailable for requested intra4x4 mode -1
>> at 67 0
>> [h264 @ 0x101009200]error while decoding MB 67 0, bytestream (312813)
>>
>> Input #0, mpegts, from 'TEST.MTS':
>> Duration: 00:11:53.01, start: 1.000033, bitrate: 23846 kb/s
>> Program 1
>> Stream #0.0[0x1011]: Video: h264, yuv420p, 1920x1080 [PAR 1:1 DAR
>> 16:9], 50 fps, 2250 tbr, 90k tbn, 50 tbc
>> Stream #0.1[0x1100]: Audio: pcm_bluray, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 1536
>> kb/s
>>
>> Any ideas what to try
>>
>>
>> Rens Dijkshoorn
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