I took a few videos this past weekend and would like to edit them but Adobe Premier only picks up the audio track and iMovie doesn't recognize the files at all. I've run a few searches and tried a few programs to no avail.
If any of you have run into this what did you use to edit your videos?
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For anyone struggling with the same issue, I made some headway. It turns out simply changing the file extension from .mp4 to .mpg will allow QuickTime to play the file (which normally it won't) and Adobe Premier to import it properly.
I have yet to find the right way to export it so it's playable on the SGS. I exported as H.264 and it only plays the audio. I'll most likely keep going at it tonight and see what I find out.
You could try to use GSpot to find what codecs are used, may help in figuring out what is needed to edit them.
I'll give that a shot, but I already found out how to play and edit them. It seems the file extension simply didn't match the encoding so Premiere and QuickTime were unsuccessfully trying to open it.
As for the encoding, according to OSX Leopard, it says it's AAC/H.264. I'll definitely take a look at gspot though and see what it tells me. Maybe I can re-encode the edited video using same method as the original video and it'll play on my Fascinate.
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hi,
how do i convert videos taken with the blackstone?
i setup mpeg4 but neither windows movie thing editor nor virtualdub can handle the file.
but i can play it with mpc without any problems.
linux...at least i see the video
i like to convert it to some moviemaker compatible format so i can quick edit some files to one video with effects in between.
thx!
Blackstone videos are already highly compressed as it is, so recoding them only to be able to use them in movie maker would give you awful videos. your best bet is avisynth - a frameserving application which basically feeds uncompressed stream from original video to the editing application. The idea is this, you create a text file which contains a link to the input file, save it with an .avs extension and then open that with an editing application. The avs file could be as simple as this:
DirectShowSource("c:\VIDEO0001.mp4")
I tried it now, and it works. You need to download avisynth and install it. Unforunately, i don't remember which apps open .avs files.
sorry i don't get it...
it's not about compression in detail.
i mean i do not want to compress or decompress the files.
i can not use it with moviemaker cause i just hear the sound and the picture is black.
so i thought i convert it to a format moviemaker can handle as it seems htc is saving it in some format that can not be used.
which i think is strange but...what do i know...
i which i could do all that with my jaunty
Well, here's the deal - every time you edit a video and save it, you are recompressing it, meaning you're getting a degraded picture quality. If you are only cutting out portions of video, then you can save it without recompression, meaning you get the same quality as the original file. The moment you add effects to the video (transitions, resizing, etc...), you have to reencode video - and get lower quality. Now, that may not be a big deal when your input files are high resolution videos, but when the input file is a heavily compressed ile, such as those made with Blackstone, it will definitely show.
Movie maker can't open mp4 files. The way i see it, if you really want to edit the files, your best bet is to download Super, a freware app which uses AviSynth as a part of it's encoding process, then output the files from blackstone as avi files in HuffYuv codec (lossless compression codec), open it in Windows Movie Maker, edit it and then save it. Note that Windows Movie Maker doesn't output to mp4, only wmv.
As far as getting only the sound an no video - deinstall all codecs or codec packs from your system and install ffdshow.
When my Harrier (wm2003se) records video in its standard mp4 format, playback on the pc is greeted with a "samr" codec not found error, prohibiting sound. (This was just a bad marketing ploy that never took off.)
Renaming the extension to 3gp solves the error.
So I ask, is there anyway to record/save in the 3gp extension instead? Like a registry hack?
*I am not trying to record video in the 3gp format, I only want to save the result in .3gp instead of .mp4
ok, several things here:
1. if your pc is not able to playback those mp4 files, try vlc media player. it'll work, since it is not dependant on installed codecs but comes with a propreatary decoder, that works with nearly any media file extension. because you should really record in mp4 as it has much higher quality and resolution than 3gp.
2. changing the file extension hardly seems like a proper way to deal with a problem like that, it does not convert the file content, i cannot imagine, why that would work, except for a really strange media player, i mean, if i create a word document with word 2010 and it has the extension .docx, removing the x at the end does not make it readable with word 2003, instead of renaming it, you should rather encode it to another format.
3. i don't know about possible camera-related differences between the blueangel and the harrier, but if i wanted my blueangel to record in 3gp format, i'd go to camera (of course, why would i open the calculator here ), click "tools", "options", "modes", choose "video" in the first dropdown menu and in the 2nd one, named encoder, i would change from MPEG4 to H.263, which is 3gp
if it is absolutely necessary for you to work with 3gp, i hope the 3rd point works for you, but i think you would be better off, using mp4. if, however, it does not work for you, please make sure to post back, i would really like to know, whether the harrier is so much different.
I've got an annoying problem that I don't know how to fix.
I have a script that uses handbrake to encode videos for me and spits them out as a .mp4 file. I used to view these from a local open web directory so I could stream them while I was in the bath or in the kitchen or having a dump or whenever I wasn't in front of my TV.
They work on my iPhone, iPod touch and on the various Android things I put on my HD2. How can it work on a flashed WinMo phone and not on a proper Android device?
What's frustrating is that they work when I transfer them over using Astro or downloading them in the browser. I assume it would work if I put them on a memory stick but all of these solutions take more time.
I was thinking I should root the Tab and put a custom Android on it, but is there anything else I can do without re-encoding a bunch of files?
What exactly is the problem? How are you trying to stream them?
I have an open web directory which is basically just a list of .mp4 files. I open the browser and point it to my site, 192.168.1.3/movies, and then click on whatever I want to watch.
Then usually it gives me an option of what app I want to play it in and I usually just pick the default video player.
This doesn't work on the Tab where it does on my other devices (Android and iOS).
So the problem is that its not giving you an option to pick which app to open the .mp4 with?
Maybe you dont have any other apps that can play the file?-
It does give me an option, it just refuses to play saying that the type is not supported. I've tried the built in video player, rockplayer, meridian. I've also tried it on a file manager like Astro.
The files just refuses to play like they do on my hacked HD2 and iPhone.
Are you trying to emulate this like the AllShare program? Cant seem to get this to work too on the network media
I don't know what AllShare is unfortunately. Did it work on a previous device?
Allshare is sammys DLNA client. Its pretty good for small folders on a LAN server. But it doesn't understand headers very well. Search is your friend.
Someone pointed me in the right direction on another board.
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OK, figured it out. The problem is that most MPEG4/QuickTime muxers append a critical piece of metadata to the end of the file and it needs to be moved to the beginning to allow streaming/progressive downloading in the Android media player (it's not a Samsung-specific problem).
If you already have a bunch of non-streaming-compatible MP4 files, there's a tool that comes with ffmpeg called qt-faststart that rewrites them (without reencoding) in a compatible fashion.
Also, it looks like Handbrake 0.9.2 and up have an option for producing "Web optimized" MPEG-4 files, which if you enable should fix future videos.
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So, I have been using this program for my HTC HD2 movie rips.
Worked perfectly up until recently.
I saw there was an update so did so.
When ripping the movie it was creating this HUGE file.
I decided to go back to the previous version.
Now when i try and rip I get "Error -2401: an invalid sample description was found in the movie."
The movie will not play on the computer nor will it play on the phone.
It seems this may be an audio issue from the research i have done, but I cannot find the settings on Xmedia Recode that work now and I do not know why it would simply stop working properly.
Anyone?
Try coreplayer it works with a lot of formats. Go to www.download.com they have a lot of PC video converters. Sorry if I couldn't answer that issue your having.
I appreciate the response, but yeah...that wasn't quite what I am looking for.
The error seems to be some sort of audio mismatch though some have remedied it by changin ght extension of the file from mp4 to 3gp...this did not work for me either (and would not translate on the phone.
I have other programs that work, but Xmedia player worked flawlessly up until now!
I re-encoded some of my video's using handbreak to a 800x480 resolution to save on space and I noticed that all of them have audio sync issues when played on the phone but nothing on the PC, moving the original files to the phone also has no audio sync issues.
Im encoding using high profile and nothing else much is changed, anyone know whats causing this ?
This happens with both the stock player and mvideo..
Gave up on Handbrake a long time ago for that reason, didn't matter what codec I used, everything was always out of sync, either resizing or direct scaling.
Real men use MeGUI
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Gave up on Handbrake a long time ago for that reason, didn't matter what codec I used, everything was always out of sync, either resizing or direct scaling.
Real men use MeGUI
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I never had this issue with the S1, Ill try to join the real men's club.. give me few mins to try it
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Could not get the app to work, after it performs an auto update the updatecopier something crashes and deletes .exe file ~_~
Which version? Probably don't need to update, should be enough profiles.
2028, it auto updates a lot of stuff. ill try to skip the update.
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I dont know how to properly use this app, I added a test file on the queue and it starts to process it then I get an error result on the queue, its also asking for some avsynth something.
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2028, it auto updates a lot of stuff. ill try to skip the update.
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I dont know how to properly use this app, I added a test file on the queue and it starts to process it then I get an error result on the queue, its also asking for some avsynth something.
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Yeah, you need avisynth, among other things.
MeGUI isn't really for beginners, but is straightforward enough if you have the time. It's not a one-click job. It's still well worth it IMO - you can convert just about anything to anything after a DVD rip, and the quality is as good or as bad as you want it to be.
If all you're after is something to downscale existing avi/H264/MKVs, I think avisynthdemux will do it - correct me if I'm wrong anyone, been a while since I've used it.
Here's a link to a quite old wiki for MeGUI, but it should be good enough if you're still interested.
hthttp://mewiki.project357.com/wiki/Guides/Basic_Guidetp://
http://www.doom9.org/ is good for all things video.
Ill give it another go a little later, only if it would update properly.
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Ill give it another go a little later, only if it would update properly.
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What OS do you use? Heard Win7 64-bit users have had some problems.
Forgot to check my version of MeGUI (at work now), but it works flawlessly with my W7 x86.
Can send all necessary files to you this weekend if you're still interested.
Windows 7 64bit Ultimate.
I tried the vids encoded with handbreak on an S1, theres no audio sync issue.
If you can just compress them into a single zip file.
Of course. Will do it tomorrow sometime (+1 GMT here).
So I've finally gotten the app to work after all this time and still getting the same audio sync issues, I tried encoding with a CUDA based app and still get the same problem.. Could it be an issue with the source file? But it plays perfectly fine on my PC and on the Galaxy S1..
Got the same probleme using SUPER. In the reencoded video sound is about 250 msec behind video. Tried various containers but it's all the same. There are two ways to fix it. Rather wait for incredible Coreplayer to be released for android (you can set and audio sync offset manualy there) or set an offset while encoding. It'll take some time to find the right offset value, but as far as I can see the lag is constant and doesn't depend on file type or resolution, so once found the right value can be used for all video files.
I have the same 250 msec lag in all flash videos in any browser (e.g. from youtube). Still can't find the way to fix it.
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I was wrong that files were ok on PC. The source file is really in sync on PC, but it's also in sync on SGS2. The reason I decided to reencode this file was that it played flawlessly for 10-15 sec, then became choppy for about 5 sec and then played flawlessly again. When reencoding the video file programm extracts elementary audio and video streams from the container, makes the given operations and joins them back together in the output file. Some tomes the source file has wrong or insufficient data (like offset, pulldown, FPS, etc.) that makes an output file out of sync.I tried to remux my source file in the same container just to check that elementary streams can be extracted and joined together with no defect. The result was dreadfully out of sync. The offset value I foud later was -1250 msec (1,25 sec). I made a remux of a source file with offset found and used remuxed file as a source for reencoding to DivX (avi). 1 minute long fragment played flawlessly with stock videoplayer (using hadware acceleration I gues) with perfect sync. Now whole file is being encoded.
Post your files that are out of sync on SGS2 here.
MX Video Player sorts it
I've found that some of my DVD rips made using Handbrake play out of sync on my GS2 which is disappointing. Most are fine, but the ones that aren't play fine on the PC, so it's not a Handbrake encoding issue.
The solution I've found is to use MX Video Player (better than Mobo Player). This allows me to choose software decoding instead of hardware coding for problem videos, and this cures the audio out of sync problem. Slightly disappointing that there appears to be an issue with the GS2 hardware decoder for some files, but at least the amazing CPU has no problem with S/W decoding.
MX Video Player is excellent and worth trying even if you don't have audio sync issues.