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Folks,
I'm desperately trying to convert a number of avi's to mp4 for my iPod G5
YES, I did follow the "iPod Video Conversion Guide" http://wiki.videolan.org/IPod_Video_Conversion_Guide
YES, I did some googling and reviewed the documentation, wikis ... before posting !

Issue :my source file is an avi, 78Mb (1min30, 640x480, audio=128kb/s, video=860kb/s), perfectly viewable with vlc 0.9.9 on XP Pro SP2
I tried a number of options:

1) Profile=IPod
:sout=#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,vb=800,scale=1,acodec=mp4a,ab=128,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=mp4,dst=R:\2.mp4\1\panel.mp4}}
errors:
Streaming / Transcoding failed:
VLC could not open the encoder.
Streaming / Transcoding failed:
VLC could not open the encoder.

made a 195bytes file

2) Profile=Ipod + width=320,canvas-height=240
:sout=#transcode{width=320,canvas-height=240,vcodec=mp4v,vb=800,scale=1,acodec=mp4a,ab=128,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=mp4,dst=R:\2.mp4\2\panel.mp4}}
errors:
Streaming / Transcoding failed:
VLC could not open the encoder.
Streaming / Transcoding failed:
VLC could not open the encoder.
Streaming / Transcoding failed:
VLC could not open the encoder.
Streaming / Transcoding failed:
VLC could not open the encoder.

made a 195bytes file

3) Profile=custom
Encapsulation=mp4
Video codec=H-264, 768kb/s
Audio codec=MPEG 4, 96kb/s
:sout=#transcode{vcodec=h264,vb=768,scale=1,acodec=mp4a,ab=96,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=mp4,dst=R:\2.mp4\3\panel.mp4}}
VLC crash --> 5374_appcompat.txt

4) Profile=custom + width=320,canvas-height=240
Encapsulation=mp4
Video codec=H-264, 768kb/s
Audio codec=MPEG 4, 96kb/s
:sout=#transcode{width=320,canvas-height=240,vcodec=h264,vb=768,scale=1,acodec=mp4a,ab=96,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=mp4,dst=R:\2.mp4\4\panel.mp4}}
VLC crash --> 1761_appcompat.txt

5) Profile=custom
Encapsulation=mp4
Video codec=MPEG-4, 768kb/s
Audio codec=MPEG 4, 96kb/s
:sout=#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,vb=768,scale=1,acodec=mp4a,ab=96,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=mp4,dst=R:\2.mp4\5\panel.mp4}}

Streaming / Transcoding failed:
VLC could not open the encoder.

made a 317Kbytes file


Any support would be MUCH appreciated!