Streaming partial extract not working
Posted: 25 Nov 2006 04:48
My mission is simple: I want to save some extracts from my Xvid-encoded movies. I was hoping VLC is the tool to choose, but after 3 hours of trying, I cannot make it work.
To transcode an extract with the GUI, one must use the wizard, which already makes me lose some important options such as ratio. I try transcoding to H264, mp4a and mp4 - only audio is output. I try mp4v, mp4a and mp4 - only audio. I really would like to transcode to something iPod-compatible from the beginning - why is it not working? The same transcoding setting works if I choose to transcode the while file, not just an extract.
Ok, so I try command line. After reading the long, long help file, I find the parameters start-time and stop-time. They seem to do the same as choosing the extract times from the GUI - but still only audio is output.
Have anyone suceeded outputting extracts of a video to file, preferrably something iPod-comatible? What am I doing wrong?
(oh, by the way - I am using the latest nightly, which by the way always crashes when I try to add my movie to the playlist).
To transcode an extract with the GUI, one must use the wizard, which already makes me lose some important options such as ratio. I try transcoding to H264, mp4a and mp4 - only audio is output. I try mp4v, mp4a and mp4 - only audio. I really would like to transcode to something iPod-compatible from the beginning - why is it not working? The same transcoding setting works if I choose to transcode the while file, not just an extract.
Ok, so I try command line. After reading the long, long help file, I find the parameters start-time and stop-time. They seem to do the same as choosing the extract times from the GUI - but still only audio is output.
Have anyone suceeded outputting extracts of a video to file, preferrably something iPod-comatible? What am I doing wrong?
(oh, by the way - I am using the latest nightly, which by the way always crashes when I try to add my movie to the playlist).