problem with ffdshow

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problem with ffdshow

Postby ReXMaster » Thu Dec 14, 2006 4:22 pm

ok under any other encoder i dont get this error but under this one i do

here whats i do
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and here the error message

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Postby Zarxrax » Thu Dec 14, 2006 5:29 pm

For the love of god, don't try to encode h264 in an avi -_-
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Postby Otohiko » Thu Dec 14, 2006 7:07 pm

Zarxrax wrote:For the love of god, don't try to encode h264 in an avi -_-


I'm still yet to be given an explaination of why that is. My own foray into h.264 with .avi came out perfectly fine.
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Postby trythil » Thu Dec 14, 2006 7:56 pm

Otohiko wrote:
Zarxrax wrote:For the love of god, don't try to encode h264 in an avi -_-


I'm still yet to be given an explaination of why that is. My own foray into h.264 with .avi came out perfectly fine.



The doom9 guys have some documentation on this:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=80430 <-- horrifying descriptions of B-frame hackery to get AVI files to "support" the features of H.264 video streams. These problems are also present for H.263 encoders like XviD, but because of inertia and historical accidents they kinda just got ignored.

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p ... post789819 <-- practical example of AVI storage gone bad

I'm sure there's more out there. If you need more, I'll continue searching.

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My motivation for striking out AVI as a container format for H.264 is because I don't want to have to be chained to obsolete systems just to keep up momentum. Others, of course, may have other motivations. I also like the flexibility that modern container formats give me, which I exploited to some extent in this video.

Now, sometimes, backwards compatibility is necessary; however, in the case of H.264, it's already a big enough jump (users have to install new decoders for it) that you might as well just go all the way and use a container that was actually designed to support features of H.264 video streams.
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Postby ReXMaster » Fri Dec 15, 2006 1:48 am

Zarxrax wrote:For the love of god, don't try to encode h264 in an avi -_-


then how in the hell do i turn it into a mp4???
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Postby Kariudo » Fri Dec 15, 2006 2:28 am

if you use the CLI you can specify the output as either raw, mp4 or mkv IIRC

it should be with the --output option (just put .mp4 after your desired filename, inside double quotes)
so that part would look like --output "myamv.mp4"
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Postby Qyot27 » Fri Dec 15, 2006 6:16 am

ReXMaster wrote:
Zarxrax wrote:For the love of god, don't try to encode h264 in an avi -_-


then how in the hell do i turn it into a mp4???

By using MeGUI (or just the x264.exe CLI) to do the encoding rather than VDub.
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