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Great to hear this ILEoo, thanks.

I couldn't find a current nightly build, but the video you link to plays all right in QuickTime.

If you want me to test anything else, just let me know what to do.

Thanks a lot for the workaround! Unfortunately VLC (both 1.0.5 and 1.1RC crashes for me when using it. ssp% /Applications/Vision/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC -I dummy ~/Dropbox/Public/VLC/Original.dv --sout='#transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=main,level=3},vb=800,scale=1,acodec=mp4a,ab=128,chann...

Ok, can you file a bug?

Sure, filed here: http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/3685

Hope that's enough information.

When playing a DV file the audio is badly distorted, with the distortion being mainly in the right audio channel. I am hearing this in all the DV files I have (which all come from the same camera, though) with both VLC 1.0.5 and 1.1-RC. QuickTime plays the audio in these DV files just fine. Example ...

BTW, using my proper stereo at home (rather than headphones in a noisy environment), I am afraid I have to report that the audio I reported OK in my previous reports still sounds broken in all the files I created. So that may be another issue lingering there. I looked into this a bit more and I def...

Great to hear this makes sense to you. On a sidenote you shouldn't use the Git versions (aka v1.2.0) for now because they are quite unstable and I strongely suggest you to use the Branch versions (aka v1.1.0) instead as they are actually in RC stage. Thanks for the note. I think I just followed buil...

A friend helped me make the following observation in case that helps: unpacking the audio and video track from their VLC-created MP4 container and repacking them into a new MP4 container seems to fix the problem. We used the mp4creator tool to do that and got the file at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3829...

That's because Pyramidal B-Frames (b-pyramid) are now enabled by default in x264 but this option is not QuickTime compatible. You should turn it off in the Preferences: Tools -> Preferences (All) -> Input / Codecs -> Video codecs -> x264 […] Thanks a lot for the explanation. I tried using the setti...

… continued * Conversion to MP4 using VLC built from current git: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/382997/VLC/VLC-git.mp4 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/382997/VLC/VLC-git.log Using a version built from source off the current (2010-05-25) git repository. I have set it up (using the VLC GUI) to use H.264 Main profil...

Thanks for having a look at this! I put a number of files online, the original and converted versions along with the console output created by VLC while doing its work. * Original DV video: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/382997/VLC/Original.dv DV file as coming from video camera, imported via FireWire by i...

It'd be cool if anybody could let me know what you think about this: Are these issues known? intentional? Do you care? Would you want additional information? If yes, which?

I transcoded some videos to MP4/H264 with VLC. When using the 1.1.0-pre3 version on the Mac, the resulting file has black video when opened in QuickTime (a regression compared to 1.0.5). I first suspected this is due to the 1.1.0-pre3 version using the High Profile (there seems to be a change in the...

Answering to myself again after going through VLC's GUI preferences and finding the popup menu to change to the Main profile at level 5.1 as used in the 1.0.5 version (instead of the High profile at level 3).

However QuickTime still can't play the the file created by this, which puzzles me.

I played around a bit with the command line tool now and got the following results in case that's any help: with VLC 1.0.5: I ran the command /Applications/Vision/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC -I dummy /Volumes/Jakob/iMovie\ Events.localized/Brunetti/clip-2009-07-31\ 16\;28\;35.dv --sout='#transcode{vc...

I am trying to export some DV videos to MPEG 4 and possibly Ogg and tried a few of the applications available for that task on the Mac. It turned out that the filtering/denoising/sharpening VLC applies to the movie is pretty much exactly what I need for the task at hand (much better than iMovie or H...