VLC 2.1 convert/save not working

[Curry]

Hi all!

I want to convert a MTS file to MP4 but vlc crashes all time
The steps are the following:
File - Convert...
Added file to convert
Click on convert
Choosen file destination name
Profile: Video - H264 + mp3 (MP4) - (by default)

It seems that it works until vlc reaches the end and then crashes.

I've tried to activate logs but nothing is saved in disk, so i attached an image from my smartphone at the moment of the crash.
VLC versions used... 2.1.X ... then update to 2.1.3... then uninstalled and installed 2.0.8. All versions behave in the same way.

Any ideas or suggestions?

thanks

[EileenP]

I am having exactly the same problem - convert a large file from MTS to MP4 and newest version of VLC crashes. Repeatedly. Sometimes I get a MP4 file out of it, but there is no video in there, only audio. Frustrating. Bug?

[gschlact]

ANy progress on this problem at All??
I have 2.1.5 and no joy.

Trying to get to H264+AAC mp4 output file.
Only a 1k resulting file is created when executing CONVERT -> Start (after setting proper profile settings for conversion (H264 video and AAC audio).
When I select default profiles like MP4+ MP3 Audio, I only get Audio.

[lc99]

I use VLC 2.1.5 in Windows 7 x64.
I am working with H264 MPEG-4 .mp4 (h264) files, and I just want to use the basic "record" GUI function.
It always gives me 681-byte files .. mp41avc1qt moov,
and when I look at verbosity 2 (debug) messages in VLC it shows
a very long series of those

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main warning: trying to send non-dated packet to stream output!

lines.
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main debug: removing module "packetizer_h264" main debug: killing decoder fourcc `h264', 0 PES in FIFO

Then does it seem like my problem is coming from the same problem as most everyone else who posted in this topic?
Thanks; Larry

p.s. It seemed that I was running the x86 (32-bit) version 2.1.5 package.
So I uninstalled that, and am now running an x64 (64-bit) installation of 2.1.5.
But this problem persists; the short file and the messages appear to be the same as before.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

What format?

[lc99]

This

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Stream 0 Type: Video Codec: H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (h264) Resolution: 1920x1080 Frame rate: 30 Decoded format: Planar 4:2:0 YUV

And messages in opening and playing

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main debug: adding item `myfile.mp4' ( file:///D:/myfile.mp4 ) qt4 debug: Adding a new MRL to recent ones: file:///D:/myfile.mp4 main debug: processing request item: myfile.mp4, node: null, skip: 0 main debug: rebuilding array of current - root Playlist main debug: rebuild done - 1 items, index 0 main debug: starting playback of the new playlist item main debug: resyncing on myfile.mp4 main debug: myfile.mp4 is at 0 main debug: creating new input thread main debug: Creating an input for 'myfile.mp4' main debug: Creating an input for 'myfile.mp4' main debug: using timeshift granularity of 50 MiB, in path 'F:\Temp' main debug: `file:///D:/myfile.mp4' gives access `file' demux `' path `/D:/myfile.mp4' main debug: creating demux: access='file' demux='' location='/D:/myfile.mp4' file='D:\myfile.mp4' main debug: looking for access_demux module matching "file": 12 candidates main debug: no access_demux modules matched main debug: creating access 'file' location='/D:/myfile.mp4', path='D:\myfile.mp4' main debug: looking for access module matching "file": 20 candidates filesystem debug: opening file `D:\myfile.mp4' main debug: using access module "filesystem" main debug: Using stream method for AStream* main debug: starting pre-buffering main debug: received first data after 0 ms main debug: pre-buffering done 1024 bytes in 0s - 1000000 KiB/s main debug: looking for stream_filter module matching "any": 6 candidates main debug: no stream_filter modules matched main debug: looking for stream_filter module matching "record": 6 candidates main debug: using stream_filter module "record" main debug: creating demux: access='file' demux='' location='/D:/myfile.mp4' file='D:\myfile.mp4' main debug: looking for demux module matching "mp4": 63 candidates mod debug: MOD validation failed (ext=mp4) ts debug: TS module discarded (lost sync) main debug: using demux module "ps" main debug: looking for a subtitle file in D:\ main debug: looking for meta reader module matching "any": 2 candidates lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Users\someone\AppData\Roaming\vlc\lua\meta\reader lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\reader lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\reader\filename.luac main debug: no meta reader modules matched main debug: `file:///D:/myfile.mp4' successfully opened ps warning: garbage at input, trying to resync... ps warning: found sync code ps debug: we found a length of: 52439000 ps debug: contains a PSM main debug: selecting program id=0 main debug: looking for decoder module matching "any": 39 candidates qt4 debug: IM: Setting an input avcodec debug: trying to use direct rendering avcodec debug: allowing 4 thread(s) for decoding avcodec debug: avcodec codec (H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10)) started avcodec debug: using frame thread mode with 4 threads main debug: using decoder module "avcodec" main debug: looking for packetizer module matching "any": 21 candidates main debug: using packetizer module "packetizer_h264" main debug: Buffering 0% main debug: Buffering 11% main debug: Buffering 22% main debug: Buffering 33% main debug: Buffering 44% main debug: Buffering 54% main debug: Buffering 65% main debug: Buffering 76% main debug: Buffering 88% main debug: Buffering 98% main debug: Stream buffering done (329 ms in 0 ms) packetizer_h264 debug: found NAL_SPS (sps_id=0) packetizer_h264 debug: found NAL_PPS (pps_id=0 sps_id=0) main debug: looking for text renderer module matching "any": 2 candidates freetype debug: Using Arial as font from file C:\Windows\Fonts\arial.ttf freetype debug: using fontsize: 2 main debug: using text renderer module "freetype" main debug: looking for video filter2 module matching "any": 55 candidates swscale debug: 32x32 chroma: YUVA -> 16x16 chroma: RGBA with scaling using Bicubic (good quality) main debug: using video filter2 module "swscale" main debug: looking for video filter2 module matching "any": 55 candidates yuvp debug: YUVP to YUVA converter main debug: using video filter2 module "yuvp" main debug: Deinterlacing available main debug: deinterlace 0, mode blend, is_needed 0 main debug: Opening vout display wrapper main debug: looking for vout display module matching "any": 10 candidates main debug: no fetch required for (null) (art currently (null)) direct3d debug: creating Vout EventThread direct3d debug: DirectXCreateWindow main debug: looking for vout window hwnd module matching "qt4,any": 3 candidates qt4 debug: requesting video window... qt4 debug: Video was requested 0, 0 main debug: using vout window hwnd module "qt4" direct3d debug: created video sub-window direct3d debug: Vout EventThread running direct3d debug: disabling screen saver direct3d debug: Direct3d Device: Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000 32902 358 9 main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'resize' 1928x1107 window direct3d warning: trying surface pixel format: YV12 direct3d debug: selected surface pixel format is YV12 direct3d debug: Using D3DTEXF_LINEAR for minification direct3d debug: Using D3DTEXF_LINEAR for magnification direct3d debug: Direct3D scene created successfully direct3d debug: Direct3D device adapter successfully initialized main debug: using vout display module "direct3d" main debug: original format sz 1920x1080, of (0,0), vsz 1920x1080, 4cc I420, sar 1:1, msk r0x0 g0x0 b0x0 main debug: removing module "freetype" main debug: looking for text renderer module matching "any": 2 candidates freetype debug: Using Arial as font from file C:\Windows\Fonts\arial.ttf freetype debug: using fontsize: 2 main debug: using text renderer module "freetype" avcodec debug: using direct rendering main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'resize' 1604x765 window main debug: End of video preroll main error: Failed to resize display main debug: Received first picture freetype debug: Breaking line freetype error: Breaking unbreakable line direct3d debug: Created 1894x226 texture for OSD main debug: Decoder buffering done in 195 ms main debug: picture might be displayed late (missing 5 ms) main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor ... ... ... main debug: Stream buffering done (301 ms in 1 ms) main debug: End of video preroll main debug: Received first picture main debug: Decoder buffering done in 61 ms main debug: EOF reached main debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty main debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty main debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty main debug: finished input main debug: removing module "avcodec" avcodec debug: ffmpeg codec (H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10)) stopped main debug: killing decoder fourcc `h264', 0 PES in FIFO main debug: saving a free vout main debug: reusing provided vout main debug: removing module "packetizer_h264" main debug: removing module "ps" main debug: Program doesn't contain anymore ES main debug: removing module "record" main debug: removing module "filesystem" main debug: dead input main debug: changing item without a request (current 0/1) main debug: nothing to play main debug: destroying useless vout main debug: removing module "direct3d" direct3d debug: Direct3D scene released successfully direct3d debug: DirectXEventThread terminating direct3d debug: DirectXCloseWindow direct3d debug: WinProc WM_DESTROY qt4 debug: releasing video... qt4 debug: IM: Deleting the input qt4 debug: Video is not needed anymore main debug: removing module "freetype" main debug: removing module "yuvp" main debug: removing module "swscale"

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

main debug: using demux module "ps"

This is not good.

[b33bl3br0x]

Has there been any movement on this issue? I had similar issues but haven't tried it again in the last month? Is there a new build which corrects the issue?

[hans.j23.kloss]

I have the same problem using 2.1.5 on win7 - convert just does not work. I tried to do cd->flac or mp3 but then anything I tried I got empty ts file. I looked up the encapsulate tab but there is no option not to encapsulate which is odd. Trying few, that did not invoke 'not available mux' message, did not provide anything useful either. The files were empty and no error was produced.
I also tried the file list but the result was the same.
I recall I tried that many versions before and it did not work either so this seems to be persistent problem at least ins ome configurations.

[ambalat]

I had the same problem of convert to mp3 not working. Giving the complete path of the destination folder with the filename with .mp3 extension did the trick.

[jesusliveslovesyou]

In the Convert-Dialog Source: begins with file:///C:/Users/...
When I just copied this to Destination File: (chaning only the filename extension), I had no success (conversion stream didn't start).
But when I took away this file:///, it suddenly works. (-.