Vlc encoding cannot be converted to any other format

[pau]

Dear all:

I have the problem that a few years ago a sysadmin encoded a talk in one of my workshops using Vlc. I asked him to produce a theora vorbis video. I am trying to upload now the movie to youtube but the interface is rejecting it because it does not recognize the format. I have not had this problem with any other Theora (ogv) movie that I created myself using other tools.

I have tried to convert the movie to a different format using ffmepg, mencoder and even Vlc but only the audio is converted, there's no video output. I have tried different outputs and even online converting tools, but nothing works, NOTHING.

Who dares to convert the movie to anything that youtube will accept?

Here you are the URL:

http://www.aei.mpg.de/~pau/conf_vid/DienstagVlc_3.ogg

I really do not know what else to try...

[mederi]

Even MediaInfo is not able to detect the video track in the provided file.
I have managed to demux the "Vorbis Audio" (-> .ogg) and the "MS MPEG-4 Video v3 (DIV3)" (-> .avi) using the VLC: Media > Convert/Save... wizard > create/edit&select transcoding profile: {AVI, Video, Keep original video track}, then {OGG, Audio, Keep original audio track}.
You should just try if YouTube accepts the DIV3.avi video, so you do not need to convert it to anything else. Then just mux the audio and video into some suitable container like MKV. I am not able to do it in VLC, but if I use mkvtoolnix (mmg), then I can easily get a working mkv file with the DIV3 video and Vorbis audio track. ffmpeg should work, too.

Perhaps somebody can explain what is wrong with the file/VLC here.

--- EDIT ---
Is MKV not supported on YouTube? https://support.google.com/youtube/trou ... 8402?hl=en

[pau]

thanks!

I do not have wizard, though... could you please guide me step by step through the process?

[mederi]

VLC (2.2.1 for Windows, 32bit):
Media > Convert/Save... > open File (or Network URL) > press [Convert/Save] button > Convert - Profile - press [Create new profile] button: Profile name [AVI], "Encapsulation" tab: AVI; "Video codec" tab: tick [v] Video, [v] Keep original video track; > press [Create] button > select Profile [AVI], specify Destination file: [H:\video.avi] > press [Start] button.
Then export Vorbis audio into OGG encapsulation the same way. Then mux both video and audio into MKV container (mkvtoolnix) or convert video first or ...