{"id":976,"date":"2012-11-05T09:15:39","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T15:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blografia.net\/vicm3\/?p=976"},"modified":"2012-11-06T09:47:40","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T15:47:40","slug":"easy-way-to-enconde-video-for-set-top-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blografia.net\/vicm3\/2012\/11\/easy-way-to-enconde-video-for-set-top-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy way to enconde video for set top box"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you had one of these every day more affordable and really cheap mitzui and others DVD players that also reproduce vidx and xvid video and read USB sticks\/Memory Cards, but not MP4 with AC3. Sure you want to be able to reproduce without have to burn a CD with something like nero or similar to convert between formats.<\/p>\n

I tried ffmpeg on Debian and found some interesting things:<\/p>\n

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  1. Build lacks MP3 sound codec, cause patent problems on several countries<\/li>\n
  2. Also DivX is not included as is commercially owned and the legal of this is not gray but more like black so not included (even when its a implementation of H264\/MPEG-4VC, same or worse problem for DivX ;) (MPEG-4 version 3)<\/li>\n
  3. Strange enough never can make Xvid output, I found this is because patent issues on several countries…<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So even transforming to AVI, Indeo\/M$\/H264\/MPEG-4, the audio where in mp2 or AC as cant make use of liblame without make a mess o compile my own ffmpeg.<\/p>\n

    In any case the magic incantation to get what I need was:<\/p>\n

    ffmpeg -i movie.mp4 -vcodec xvid -acodec mp3 movie.avi<\/p>\n

    This is cause before I have done a really big file with MPEG-1 video and mp2 sound (terrible if you wonder), to just found that my decoder reads well, but don’t support external subtitles on mpg files :( bummer.<\/p>\n

    Finally found that even in win you can use ffmpeg for free with WinFF (that regardless of the name runs on Linux and Win) [1] that gives nice menus and combos, yes I know that for win exist a monstrous encoder called Super [2] but that thing is really big, useful when you need\u00a0\u00a0FFmpeg , MEncoder , MPlayer , x264 , MusePack (mpc) , Monkey’s Audio (ape) ,Shorten Audio (shn) , Tom’s Audio Kompressor (tak) , True Audio (tta) , WavPack (wv) ,libavcodec library (compiled inside FFmpeg and MEncoder) & the theora\/vorbis RealProducer’s plugIn… but normally FFmpeg is just enough.<\/p>\n

    By the way searching for info I reached 19 ffmpeg commands for all needs [3] that gives you a very good cheat sheet and examples of how craft ffmpeg switches and options.<\/p>\n

    [1] http:\/\/winff.org\/html_new\/<\/a>
    \n[2]     http:\/\/www.erightsoft.com\/SUPER.html
    \n<\/a>[3]     http:\/\/www.catswhocode.com\/blog\/19-ffmpeg-commands-for-all-needs<\/a>
    \n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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