As some knowledgeable PDMLers pointed out to me a few months ago, all K5s (at least as of release of K5 II*) had a bug related to the FFMPEG audio codec which resulted in a clicking noise once uploaded to Youtube (or, possibly played in some players). http://pdml.net/pipermail/pdml_pdml.net/2013-July/353117.html
This forces me convert videos before I upload them to Youtube, which is a PITA, and takes considerable amount of time. So, my question is whether any changes to the codec were made in the recent firmware updates? My guess is no, and I just don't feel like testing it, but I thought maybe somebody already tested it. BTW, in case it is useful for anybody, my solution for the conversion before uploading to youtube is this .bat script in Windows, using Avidemux v.2.6.4. I copy this script to the folder where my videos are, and it creates a subfolder "UPLOAD", where it saves the new videos with the -upload added to the file name. Along the way, I recode the audio and the video, compressing them to minimize the time it takes for the upload. (I am not making Hi-Fi movies, so, that's OK for my purposes.) This might not be the best combination of codecs, but it took me some time to play with those to make sure they work with Youtube. ============================ 8<-------------------------------------- set avidemux="C:\Program Files\Avidemux 2.6\avidemux_cli.exe" set videocodec=XVID4 set audiocodec=LavAAC mkdir UPLOAD for /r %%f in (*.AVI) do %avidemux% --load "%%f" --video-codec %videocodec% --audio-codec %audiocodec% --output-format AVI --save "UPLOAD\%%~nf-upload.avi" --quit -------------------------------------- >8============================== Igor -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
