Re: PS3 problem playing get_iplayer h.264 videos
On 29/12/2011 16:15, Jon Davies wrote: which convinces me that the problem is in ffmpeg, and isn't really anything to do with get_iplayer. Interestingly ffprobe reports a 48khz sample rate for both broken and working files, whereas the PS3 reports 48khz for the broken ones, and 24khz for the working ones. Next step is to see if the latest builds of ffmpeg and/or libav still exhibit this behaviour. That still seems to be the case with ffmpeg 0.9, though I've encountered this problem in a different context (no PS3 here). I used Elgato Turbo.264 HD to encode video for an Apple TV 1, and it was also foxed by the audio sample rate in the headers of files remuxed by ffmpeg. The result was trashed audio in the output files. I could work around the problem by remuxing with mp4box and then running Turbo.264, but I generally chose to drive the Turbo.264 encoding via QuickTime 7 in order to preserve metadata tags. The 0.5 branch of ffmpeg is the only version that takes the audio sample rate from the FLV metadata. That bit of code was subsequently removed in 0.6 and later branches, but I was never energetic enough to track down the problem with whatever replaced it. AFAICT, the FLV metadata is written correctly by rtmpdump, and any QuickTime-based tool (or ffmpeg itself) has no problem converting the remuxed MP4 file, regardless of what is in the header. A bit of esoterica here. The audio sample rate is written in two places in the MP4 header (media header and sample table descriptor for audio track). I noticed a slight difference in the results depending on how I employed mp4box. If I used the simple version: mp4box -add broken.mp4 -new fixed.mp4 only one of the audio sample rate values (in sample table descriptor) was changed in the output file header. The mp4info utility (from libmp4v2) reported 48 kHz, though the file was still usable with Turbo.264. However, if I fully disassembled the tracks and reassembled a new file, e.g.: mp4box -raw 1 broken.mp4 -out broken.h264 mp4box -raw 2 broken.mp4 -out broken.aac mp4box -add broken.h264 -add broken.aac -new fixed.mp4 both audio sample rate values were changed and mp4info reported 24 kHz. I doubt it makes any difference, but if one method doesn't work for a particular application, perhaps the other will. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: PS3 problem playing get_iplayer h.264 videos
Glad you got it sorted. Hopefully the old version of ffmpeg will continue to work for some time yet. On 31/12/2011 15:52, don rossie wrote: Hi, It transpires that there was a fault with my PS3 (it was a second hand PS3 from ebay under warranty so I have now sent it back and bought a new slimline 160Gb). With my new PS3, it works just fine when using the older version of ffmpeg (r22140). I now have to convert all my other videos that were encoded with the newer version of ffmpeg but I can do this by running them through Handbrake. What is MP4Box, I have never heard of this ?? Thank you for all of your help in getting this resolved, it is greatly appreciated. Cheers Don. On 28 December 2011 17:47, spam.mcspam...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry I haven't caught up with this thread earlier, it's been a busy time of year. :-) It's very odd that your PS3 is resetting when trying to play a video file, I've not had problems like that. Just the normal no audio, too fast video problem. Hope there's not a problem with your PS3 itself. I have downloaded b018xsm2 (I've Never Seen Star Wars) today and it was encoded with the version of ffmpeg I posted a link to earlier. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7678269/Ffmpeg_getiplayer.zip SVN-r22140-Sherypya built 02 March 2010. The resulting file plays absolutely fine on my PS3 (Slimline model with latest firmware from Sony). The command line that get_iplayer used to convert the flv to .mp4 was: E:\gip\ffmpeg\bin\ffmpeg.exe -i E:\gip\Downloads/Ive_Never_Seen_Star_Wars_-_27_12_2011_b018xsm2_default.partial.mp4.flv -vcodec copy -acodec copy -f mp4 -y E:\gip\Downloads/Ive_Never_Seen_Star_Wars_-_27_12_2011_b018xsm2_default.partial.mp4 Maybe you could try downloading this file with get_iplayer and seeing if it plays on your PS3? Perhaps copy the file to a USB stick if you have one and plug it in the PS3 and try to play it from there which will eliminate the media streaming from the equation. I actually gave up using my PS3 as my media player (it was too noisy, a bit unreliable and I wanted to play HD mkv files without converting them) and I instead bought a eMachine ER1401 which I picked up for £110 from eBuyer.com. CPC had these on offer for a similar price recently but they're now out of stock again. On 27/12/2011 11:39, don rossie wrote: On 27 December 2011 04:35,don.ros...@googlemail.comwrote: I tried an older version of ffmpeg on my windows 7 setup and all this did was to reset my ps3 (older 40gb model, also known as the fat shiny top model) to a shutdown state with the red power light flashing. This happened as soon as the video was started with the ps3 controller X button. The video was running from my zyxel 310 nas. The funny thing is that the same video works just fine on my Ipad?? Don... On 27 Dec 2011 03:56, Andy Bircumshawa...@networkned.co.ukwrote: On 22 December 2011, at 19:24, don rossie wrote: ... I have been reading up on this problem which is the video files play at double speed with no audio and the solution seems to be to use an older version of ffmpeg. For the record, I'm also getting this on my PS3 at the moment, using ffmpeg 0.7.7 on Linux. I'm pretty sure that Shevek has documented this in the past, but I must have accidentally slipped into upgrading to a buggy version. I never normally use my PS3 for watching iPlayer downloads now, so I have no idea how many videos on my NAS are affected. I'll try to test a newer version of ffmpeg the next few days. aB. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: PS3 problem playing get_iplayer h.264 videos
On 28 December 2011 17:47, spam.mc spam...@gmail.com wrote: I have downloaded b018xsm2 (I've Never Seen Star Wars) today and it was encoded with the version of ffmpeg I posted a link to earlier. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7678269/Ffmpeg_getiplayer.zip SVN-r22140-Sherypya built 02 March 2010. I've also done some experiments - and running a 'broken' file through MP4Box results in a file that plays perfectly. So we have - ffmpeg = r22140 works - ffmpeg newer than that (or something around there) doesn't work - broken files run through MP4Box fixes the broken files. (using something like MP4Box -add broken.mp4 fixed.mp4) which convinces me that the problem is in ffmpeg, and isn't really anything to do with get_iplayer. Interestingly ffprobe reports a 48khz sample rate for both broken and working files, whereas the PS3 reports 48khz for the broken ones, and 24khz for the working ones. Next step is to see if the latest builds of ffmpeg and/or libav still exhibit this behaviour. Jon ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: PS3 problem playing get_iplayer h.264 videos
Sorry I haven't caught up with this thread earlier, it's been a busy time of year. :-) It's very odd that your PS3 is resetting when trying to play a video file, I've not had problems like that. Just the normal no audio, too fast video problem. Hope there's not a problem with your PS3 itself. I have downloaded b018xsm2 (I've Never Seen Star Wars) today and it was encoded with the version of ffmpeg I posted a link to earlier. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7678269/Ffmpeg_getiplayer.zip SVN-r22140-Sherypya built 02 March 2010. The resulting file plays absolutely fine on my PS3 (Slimline model with latest firmware from Sony). The command line that get_iplayer used to convert the flv to .mp4 was: E:\gip\ffmpeg\bin\ffmpeg.exe -i E:\gip\Downloads/Ive_Never_Seen_Star_Wars_-_27_12_2011_b018xsm2_default.partial.mp4.flv -vcodec copy -acodec copy -f mp4 -y E:\gip\Downloads/Ive_Never_Seen_Star_Wars_-_27_12_2011_b018xsm2_default.partial.mp4 Maybe you could try downloading this file with get_iplayer and seeing if it plays on your PS3? Perhaps copy the file to a USB stick if you have one and plug it in the PS3 and try to play it from there which will eliminate the media streaming from the equation. I actually gave up using my PS3 as my media player (it was too noisy, a bit unreliable and I wanted to play HD mkv files without converting them) and I instead bought a eMachine ER1401 which I picked up for £110 from eBuyer.com. CPC had these on offer for a similar price recently but they're now out of stock again. On 27/12/2011 11:39, don rossie wrote: On 27 December 2011 04:35,don.ros...@googlemail.com wrote: I tried an older version of ffmpeg on my windows 7 setup and all this did was to reset my ps3 (older 40gb model, also known as the fat shiny top model) to a shutdown state with the red power light flashing. This happened as soon as the video was started with the ps3 controller X button. The video was running from my zyxel 310 nas. The funny thing is that the same video works just fine on my Ipad?? Don... On 27 Dec 2011 03:56, Andy Bircumshawa...@networkned.co.uk wrote: On 22 December 2011, at 19:24, don rossie wrote: ... I have been reading up on this problem which is the video files play at double speed with no audio and the solution seems to be to use an older version of ffmpeg. For the record, I'm also getting this on my PS3 at the moment, using ffmpeg 0.7.7 on Linux. I'm pretty sure that Shevek has documented this in the past, but I must have accidentally slipped into upgrading to a buggy version. I never normally use my PS3 for watching iPlayer downloads now, so I have no idea how many videos on my NAS are affected. I'll try to test a newer version of ffmpeg the next few days. aB. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: PS3 problem playing get_iplayer h.264 videos
On 22 December 2011, at 19:24, don rossie wrote: ... I have been reading up on this problem which is the video files play at double speed with no audio and the solution seems to be to use an older version of ffmpeg. For the record, I'm also getting this on my PS3 at the moment, using ffmpeg 0.7.7 on Linux. I'm pretty sure that Shevek has documented this in the past, but I must have accidentally slipped into upgrading to a buggy version. I never normally use my PS3 for watching iPlayer downloads now, so I have no idea how many videos on my NAS are affected. I'll try to test a newer version of ffmpeg the next few days. aB. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: PS3 problem playing get_iplayer h.264 videos
Hi, I did what you suggested and when I try to play the mp4 on my PS3, it shuts down the PS3 and leaves a flashing red light. The PS3 comes back on OK when I press the power button and everything else works fine (games, blurays, avi's etc). This is weird?? The file starts to play but only the first couple of frames before it shuts dowm my ps3. I have searched the web but with no real success, can you think off any reason why it shuts down my PS3?? Cheers Don... On 22 December 2011 22:02, spam.mc spam...@gmail.com wrote: Looks like my previous link has expired. So try this one: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7678269/Ffmpeg_getiplayer.zip Unzip then just copy the new .exe to your ffmpeg/bin directory, you could rename your existing one first, then it's easy to go back again should you want. On 22/12/2011 19:24, don rossie wrote: Hi, I have been reading up on this problem which is the video files play at double speed with no audio and the solution seems to be to use an older version of ffmpeg. Can anyone tell me where I can download an older copy that will work with the PS3 so that any new vids that I d/l with get_iplayer will work the PS3. Lastly, I have a lot of vids that I have stored on my NAS, is there a way of setting up a batch file that will convert all of these to be able to play on the PS3. Any help that can be offered will be very much appreciated but can the advice offered be quite explicit in the methods offered to fix my problems as I am not all that PC savvy. Cheers ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: PS3 problem playing get_iplayer h.264 videos
Looks like my previous link has expired. So try this one: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7678269/Ffmpeg_getiplayer.zip Unzip then just copy the new .exe to your ffmpeg/bin directory, you could rename your existing one first, then it's easy to go back again should you want. On 22/12/2011 19:24, don rossie wrote: Hi, I have been reading up on this problem which is the video files play at double speed with no audio and the solution seems to be to use an older version of ffmpeg. Can anyone tell me where I can download an older copy that will work with the PS3 so that any new vids that I d/l with get_iplayer will work the PS3. Lastly, I have a lot of vids that I have stored on my NAS, is there a way of setting up a batch file that will convert all of these to be able to play on the PS3. Any help that can be offered will be very much appreciated but can the advice offered be quite explicit in the methods offered to fix my problems as I am not all that PC savvy. Cheers ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
