My bad Steve, yeah your right its "low-complexity" instead of "simple".
Now that we have our words right again I ask the community, does anyone know of a good transcoder that handles the "low-complexity" h.264 MP4 conversions (640x480 ipod compatable with bitrate manipulation) on the PC? I've tried Videora, but the darn thing loses sound sync so bad that its almost worthless. I would appreciate any tips all, I really would like to be able to go 640x480 with my next episode. Rev. Chumley http://www.cultofuhf.com --- In [email protected], "Steve Watkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ahh I get you, the confusion is still about the term 'simple profile'. > Simple profile is, as I said before, an mpeg4 profile, not a h264 one. > > Ive looked at the Apple specs, and I think you mean 'low complexity > baseline profile'... > > " * H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 x 480, 30 frames per sec., > Low-Complexity version of the Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to > 160 kbps, 48 Khz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats > * H.264 video, up to 768 kbps, 320 x 240, 30 frames per sec., > Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 kbps, 48 > Khz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats > * MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 x 480, 30 frames per sec., > Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 kbps, 48 Khz, stereo audio > in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats" > > > So yeah, for 640x480 res stuff to work on the ipod, it either needs to > be either Low-Complexity baseline profile h264, or simple profile > mpeg4. I know how you can do simple profile in mpeg4 in quicktime, but > admit Im not sure how to activate low-complexity encoding using manual > h264 settings in quicktime. I'll see if I can find out, anybody know > if it can be done? > > Cheers > > Steve Elbows > > --- In [email protected], "Chumley" <metaflibble@> wrote: > > > > Baseline works fine in h.264 320x240 for ipods, but baseline profile > > in 640x480 h.264 is not ipod compatable at any bitrate. In order for > > it to be ipod compatable at 640x480 it has to be in the new Simple > > h.264 profile. > > > > I've tried every bitrate I can think of in h.264 with baseline profile > > but none of them will transfer if its in 640x480. Straight MP4 will > > work, but it looks terrible compared to h.264 and the file size is > > always larger. >
