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Old 29-04-2005   #1 (permalink)
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A Tricky Conversion Problem - H264

A have downloaded a movie and it has been encoded with H264 (on a Mac).

THe format of the file is xxxx.mp4.

I wish to transcode it to a more common codec ie DivX or xvid on a PC running
WinXP.

Any help appreciated.

Regards to all.
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Old 29-04-2005   #2 (permalink)
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Open the file in Avicodec or Gspot (both free) and see what the actual info for the file is. Use Virtual dub mpeg2 (free and opens all mpeg/avi files) to re-encode to xvid/divx
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Thanks for the help - but no joy

Gspot gives the following info:

File Type 3GPP Media (3GP / mp4 compat)
Mimetype: video/mp4

Vdub cannot detect the filetype
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A have downloaded a movie and it has been encoded with H264 (on a Mac).

THe format of the file is xxxx.mp4.

I wish to transcode it to a more common codec ie DivX or xvid on a PC running
WinXP.
what for? you can play avc .mp4 files on windows with mplayer, videolan or in any directshow player, when installing nero or haali's mp4 parser + ffdshow and of course in the new qt7 for windows
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A have downloaded a movie and it has been encoded with H264 (on a Mac).

THe format of the file is xxxx.mp4.

I wish to transcode it to a more common codec ie DivX or xvid on a PC running
WinXP.

Any help appreciated.

Regards to all.

i use a proggie called "MainConcept H.264 Encoder" for most of my re-encoding....it works with nearly all formats (i.e. DivX to DVD) with quality output similar to Canopus Procoder, but at much faster speeds, like VDub...it will have no problems reading your file...
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"MainConcept H.264 Encoder" doesnt understand avc-in-mp4
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If you use avicodec it can take directly to the website to get an H264 codec, I believe. This might help. I've not had a similarly encoded file so I can't be certain about this.
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what for? you can play avc .mp4 files on windows with mplayer, videolan or in any directshow player, when installing nero or haali's mp4 parser + ffdshow and of course in the new qt7 for windows
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"I wish to transcode it to a more common codec"

waltonjb, if that file plays on your machine, i would try the avisynth's "directshowsource" to load it to vdub and encode as usual form there.
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Can anyone help I have a movie in h264/x264 I can just aboutplay itin wmp but it is outof sync the sound is ok but the video lags, I am on win98se with 312MB ram, is there any program that can get the movie to play in sync?

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