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While I can successfully convert the audio tracks from videos to MP3, the fact that the file name can only end in .raw is silly. Having to change the file extension in the command window is just an annoyance. Even sillier: if I change the destination file extension manually to .mp3 prior to hitting ...

Hi all,
Tried VideoLAN 0.9.8, same problems with video codecs and initial visual artifacts.

Any clues about new / better codecs for VideoLAN?

Update for everyone: I switched over to AviDemux for my video-to-mp4 conversion, under the advice of people in this forum. And it's a great tool...except it can't generate mp4s that can be played by an iPhone at all. It pretends to, but the video is blank. So...please work on the codecs for VideoLAN...

You are right. QuickTime doesn't handle the audio decoding correctly. And video encoding doesn't work on best possible way (it seems like it misses the first keyframe). There has been changes on AAC audio encoding on upcoming 1.0.0 that hopefully fixes audio issues. Yeah, it's weird that v0.86i did...

Could you also tell transcoding options you used?

input file was WMV

output container was mp4

audio was AAC, either 96 or 192 kbps

video was mpeg4 @ 1024 kbps (for vlan 0.86i) and 800 kbps (for vlan 0.96)

both input and output files were on my local disk

You can for example use Rapidshare or Megaupload for file sharing. And paste the transcoding option also. But if you just want to change your video another format, I suggest AVIdemux. You can do two-pass encoding and get better quality/total size value. Ah, but that site (like most) requires that y...

Having two problems with version 0.96 on windows. One is new, one has been around since at least 0.86. Input file: "source.wmv" (I have all these files in a zip, but I can't figure out how to attach them here :( ) Output files: "test v96.mp4 (produced by VLC 0.96, showing latest audio...