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I recently had to master a video file into 5.1 audio with Apple Pro Res 422 video. Everything went well until I tried playing back that video in VLC, only to discover that the speakers were playing the wrong channels out of the wrong speakers. At the time it was all hectic and we didn't have the tim...

I made an offline encode with Nero recode and its AVC.. I turned off bi-directional encoding which made files VLC wouldn't play properly.. got a file that plays fine in VLC.. i then try to stream it and I just can't get it to work... if i leave it as an MPEG TS the audio part gets through ok and the...

Thanks for the replies guys.. I'm working from DVD resolution files mostly at the moment... I wanted to try h264 but whenever i select it i get the following errors in the messages stream_out_transcode error: cannot create chain main error: stream chained failed for `transcode{vcodec=DIV3,vb=128,sca...

thanks Mark... all this needs to happen on the recieving client i assume!? Cheers There's not a way of debugging the status of buffers.. seeing how much %full they are so you can see if its struggling before dropping.. a friend had this on something once and i was well impressed by his ability to pr...

A problem i have when trying to be strict with my stream fitting in available bandwidth is that most of the time you have to be conservative to leave enough headroom for the difficult parts of the video to still be within bandwidth.. I was wondering what buffering options there are available.. are t...

Just wondered if anyone knew of the best settings they've found so far to stream various videos over their standard broadband connection (256kbit/s upload) .. I've settled on this at the moment :sout=#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,vb=110,scale=0.5,acodec=vorb,ab=32,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=http,...

I'm trying to get the best performance possible out of my 30kbyte/s upload capability of my connection.. its obvious that i could do with just a bit more and it'd all look nice.. Anyways i've chosen various video settings.. 128kbit/s or there abouts is about the max i can do with default mpeg4 video...