export in H264

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export in H264

Postby moggy » 21 Feb 2006 02:43

It seems impossible to export a file in H264. It works in mp4.
The problem is on the mac version, because exportation in h264 works fine on a PC on XP.
I have G4 and MacIntel (imac duo), and the problem is the same on the different machines, using of course the PPC version on the G4 and the last nightly build on the MacIntel.
Any reason for the problem?

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Postby The DJ » 21 Feb 2006 12:04

Playback of H264 is already highly experimental. recording, storing and encoding to H264 isn't even close to being fully supported.
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Postby geo » 21 Feb 2006 14:13

DJ, Moggy,

I've been using the SVN version to transcode MPEG2-TS to H.264. The resulting files play fine in QT Player 7, and when hinted stream fine from under QTSS. I'm only on PPC G4/5.

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clivlc -vvv -I logger --logfile ~/Library/logs/VLC-Transcode.log "/Users/geo/UCTV/DEV/databases/SPOOL/aaatest/TEST.ts" --sout '#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp4a,vb=350,ab=48,width=640,height=352,deinterlace} :std{access=file,mux=mov,dst="/Users/geo/Movies/TEST.mov"}}' vlc:quit
Anything I'm doing wrong?

I've written an Automator action that uses VLC as a transcoding engine. I should get to finish it in the next few days and will be looking for testers.

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H264 transcoding and other comments

Postby moggy » 21 Feb 2006 15:00

I understand H264 is highly experimental, but it seeems reading works.
What I don't understand is the fact that the transcoding in H264 really works on a PC on windows and not at all on a PPC or Intel Mac.

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Postby compufix » 21 Feb 2006 16:02

Please allow me to test...what I have a need to do is tune in a stream, then re-stream as h.264 or MP4 and create the SDP file, and maybe save a local MOV. If you could have these in an automator action, fantastic...as I have not played with automator... I was going to look into just using Applescript to pass arguments to a shell script...and was just going to start playing with that today.


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Postby geo » 22 Feb 2006 07:03

New thread for the VLC Transcoder

viewtopic.php?p=54412


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