On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Dan Dennedy <d...@dennedy.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: >... >> I was following the command line on the section that I linked to: >> >> $ melt -profile square_pal somevideo.foo ... -consumer >> avformat:udp://224.224.224.224:1234?pkt_size=1316\&reuse=1 real_time=1 >> terminate_on_pause=0 f=mpegts vcodec=mpeg4 b=1000k s=320x240 >> acodec=mp2 ab=128k >> >> The text goes on to suggest trying h264 rather than mpeg4. And while > > I guess the text was being descriptive rather than literal or I made a > typo. If you do a little research about encoding H.264 with > ffmpeg/libav, then you'd know that you need to use "libx264" to do > H.264 encoding.
Gotcha. When I saw "h264" in mlt's video codecs, I went for it. ... and failed :-) I see what you mean about descriptive/prose rather than being an actual value for the cmdline. But as a newbie getting a feel for mlt, it was a bump in the road. Maybe the page could be tweaked? >> it seems ffmpeg (well, libav really) has h264, it isn't being seen by >> mlt. > > libavcodec has "h264" for decoding. When you run "melt -query > video_codecs" it is listing encoders only. The output of avconv > -codecs varies by version, and it used to have a separate decode-only > entry for h264 and encode-only entry for libx264. Now, it is lumping > them together. Perhaps you can now use "h264" as an alias for libx264; > I am not sure, but "libx264" is what MLT needs. Thanks for the detailed explanation. "avconv -codecs" has a column-based output with D and/or E specifying whether decoding/encoding are available. In my case (v0.8.6 of libav), it doesn't have h264 encoding available (installed on Ubuntu via libav-tools). I can get that fixed. I appreciate the quick help, all. Cheers, -g ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Mlt-devel mailing list Mlt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mlt-devel
