Problem with some .mov files

[dlange]

Hello,

first of all thanks for great piece of opensource It's working really great with my avi and mpeg movies!

The problem is, I imported all my movies to iTunes using "VideoDrive" which creates so called "AppleTV container". If I understand that right, the for example ".avi" movie is moved into a ".mov" container (but remains untouched, which means the encoding is still the same as before (for example xvid). The subtitles are also stored in this ".mov" container. I don't really know how it works, but it works perfectly well with iTunes so I continued and at the moment I have all my movies imported to iTunes (as AppleTV containers). It would be a really pity if it would not be possible to stream/transcode those files to my PS3 because everytime I try to play such a movie I get a "The file is corrupted" error message ...

Does anybody have an idea on how to fix this?

Thanks,
Daniel

[meskibob]

The PS3 doesn't support MOV files so you'll need to remux or transcode. MEncoder can sometimes have issues with MOV files, so if you still get issues you might have to pre-convert them.

[dlange]

hmm okej, do you have any idea if I could fix this .mov problem by changing the MEncoder configuration? Or is there going to be an alternative transcoder which is better at transcoding .mov then MEncoder?

[dlange]

I tried some things today, but the didn't work out. Here is my debug.log from when I tried to start the file "300.mov":

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[New I/O server worker #2-2] DEBUG 18:03:28.924 Available Content-Length: 13000
[New I/O server worker #2-2] DEBUG 18:03:28.925 future: wrote the last chunk, remaining4808
[New I/O server worker #2-2] DEBUG 18:03:28.925 Sent to socket: Accept-Ranges: bytes
[New I/O server worker #2-2] DEBUG 18:03:29.001 Sent to socket: Connection: keep-alive
[New I/O server worker #2-2] DEBUG 18:03:29.001 Sent to socket: Content-Length: 13000
[New I/O server worker #2-2] DEBUG 18:03:29.001 Sent to socket: Content-Type: image/jpeg
[New I/O server worker #2-2] DEBUG 18:03:29.001 Sent to socket: Expires: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:50:08 GMT
[New I/O server worker #2-2] DEBUG 18:03:29.001 Sent to socket: Server: Mac_OS_X-x86_64-10.6.1, UPnP/1.0, PMS/1.20
[New I/O server worker #2-2] DEBUG 18:03:29.001 Sent to socket: TransferMode.DLNA.ORG: Interactive
[New I/O server worker #2-1] TRACE 18:03:29.001 Starting transcode/remux of 300.mov
[New I/O server worker #2-1] DEBUG 18:03:29.002 Searching an audio track with lang: swe
[Thread-199] INFO  18:03:29.002 Stopping process: osx/mplayer
[Thread-199] DEBUG 18:03:29.002 Killing the Unix process: 44991
[Thread-93] INFO  18:03:29.270 Stopping process: osx/ffmpeg
[Thread-93] DEBUG 18:03:29.270 Killing the Unix process: 44946
[Thread-206] INFO  18:03:29.287 Stopping process: osx/mplayer
[Thread-206] DEBUG 18:03:29.288 Killing the Unix process: 44992
[Thread-235] DEBUG 18:03:29.305 kill: 44991: No such process
[Thread-207] INFO  18:03:29.305 Destroying buffer
[Thread-237] DEBUG 18:03:29.407 kill: 44992: No such process
[Thread-94] INFO  18:03:29.408 Stopping process: osx/ffmpeg
[Thread-95] INFO  18:03:29.306 Stopping process: osx/ffmpeg
[Thread-95] DEBUG 18:03:29.555 Killing the Unix process: 44947
[Thread-93] INFO  18:03:29.555 Destroying buffer
[Thread-94] DEBUG 18:03:29.306 Killing the Unix process: 44948
[Thread-239] DEBUG 18:03:29.555 kill: 44946: No such process
[Thread-95] INFO  18:03:29.672 Destroying buffer
[Thread-241] DEBUG 18:03:29.672 kill: 44947: No such process
[Thread-243] DEBUG 18:03:30.083 kill: 44948: No such process
[Thread-94] INFO  18:03:30.084 Destroying buffer
[New I/O server worker #2-1] DEBUG 18:03:30.311 Searching an audio track with lang: ger
[New I/O server worker #2-1] DEBUG 18:03:30.314 Searching an audio track with lang: eng
[New I/O server worker #2-1] DEBUG 18:03:30.314 Matched audio track: Audio: AAC / lang: eng / ID: 1
[New I/O server worker #2-1] DEBUG 18:03:30.355 Found subtitles track : Sub: Embedded / lang: sve / ID: 0 / FILE: -
[New I/O server worker #2-1] DEBUG 18:03:30.355 Searching a subtitle track with lang: swe
[New I/O server worker #2-1] DEBUG 18:03:30.373 Searching a subtitle track with lang: ger
[New I/O server worker #2-1] DEBUG 18:03:30.375 Searching a subtitle track with lang: eng
[osx/mencoder] INFO  18:03:30.406 Starting /Applications/PS3 Media Server.app/Contents/Resources/Java/osx/mencoder -ss 0 -quiet /Volumes/Mediathek/iTunes Music/Movies/300.mov -quiet -quiet -oac lavc -of mpeg -quiet -quiet -mpegopts format=mpeg2:muxrate=500000:vbuf_size=1194:abuf_size=64 -ovc lavc -channels 6 -lavdopts debug=0:threads=2 -lavcopts autoaspect=1:vcodec=mpeg2video:acodec=ac3:abitrate=256:threads=2:keyint=1:vqscale=1:vqmin=2 -subfont /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home/lib/fonts/LucidaSansRegular.ttf -subfont-text-scale 3 -subfont-outline 1 -subfont-blur 1 -subpos 98 -aid 1 -subdelay 20000 -quiet -quiet -ofps 24000/1001 -quiet -quiet -mc 0.1 -quiet -af lavcresample=48000 -srate 48000 -o - -really-quiet -msglevel all=-1
[Thread-222] INFO  18:03:30.417 Stopping process: osx/ffmpeg
[Thread-222] DEBUG 18:03:30.418 Killing the Unix process: 44981
[Thread-245] DEBUG 18:03:30.425 kill: 44981: No such process
[Thread-222] INFO  18:03:30.426 Destroying buffer
[Thread-222] INFO  18:03:30.690 Destroying buffer
[osx/mencoder] INFO  18:03:30.908 Attaching thread: osx/mencoder
[Timer-18] DEBUG 18:03:30.908 Buffered Space: 0 bytes / inputs: 0
[Thread-247] DEBUG 18:03:30.909 [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x1005c00]multiple edit list entries, a/v desync might occur, patch welcome
[Thread-229] INFO  18:03:31.020 Stopping process: osx/ffmpeg
[Thread-229] DEBUG 18:03:31.020 Killing the Unix process: 44993
[Thread-250] DEBUG 18:03:31.046 kill: 44993: No such process
[Thread-229] INFO  18:03:31.046 Destroying buffer
[Thread-229] INFO  18:03:31.405 Destroying buffer
[Thread-225] INFO  18:03:31.590 Stopping process: osx/mplayer
[Thread-225] DEBUG 18:03:31.591 Killing the Unix process: 45000
[Thread-131] INFO  18:03:31.593 Stopping process: osx/ffmpeg
[Thread-131] DEBUG 18:03:31.593 Killing the Unix process: 44959
[Thread-252] DEBUG 18:03:31.759 kill: 44959: No such process
[Thread-131] INFO  18:03:31.760 Destroying buffer
[Thread-254] DEBUG 18:03:31.934 kill: 45000: No such process
[Thread-143] INFO  18:03:32.150 Stopping process: osx/ffmpeg
[Thread-143] DEBUG 18:03:32.191 Killing the Unix process: 44966
[Thread-256] DEBUG 18:03:32.259 kill: 44966: No such process
[Thread-143] INFO  18:03:32.260 Destroying buffer
[Timer-18] DEBUG 18:03:32.909 Buffered Space: 0 bytes / inputs: 0
[Thread-155] INFO  18:03:32.915 Stopping process: osx/ffmpeg
[Thread-155] DEBUG 18:03:32.915 Killing the Unix process: 44971
[Thread-258] DEBUG 18:03:32.943 kill: 44971: No such process
[Thread-155] INFO  18:03:32.944 Destroying buffer
[Thread-247] DEBUG 18:03:33.468     Last message repeated 3 times
[Thread-247] DEBUG 18:03:33.468 [h264 @ 0x105ba00]Cannot parallelize deblocking type 1, decoding such frames in sequential order
[osx/mencoder] DEBUG 18:03:33.477 EOF
[Thread-169] INFO  18:03:34.022 Stopping process: osx/ffmpeg
[Thread-169] DEBUG 18:03:34.022 Killing the Unix process: 44978
[Thread-260] DEBUG 18:03:34.047 kill: 44978: No such process
[Thread-169] INFO  18:03:34.047 Destroying buffer
[Thread-180] INFO  18:03:34.333 Stopping process: osx/ffmpeg
[Thread-180] DEBUG 18:03:34.333 Killing the Unix process: 44979
[Thread-262] DEBUG 18:03:34.355 kill: 44979: No such process
[Thread-180] INFO  18:03:34.356 Destroying buffer
[Timer-18] DEBUG 18:03:34.909 Buffered Space: 4096 bytes / inputs: 0
[Thread-187] INFO  18:03:35.028 Stopping process: osx/ffmpeg
[Thread-187] DEBUG 18:03:35.028 Killing the Unix process: 44981
[Thread-264] DEBUG 18:03:35.053 kill: 44981: No such process
[Thread-187] INFO  18:03:35.053 Destroying buffer
[Thread-210] INFO  18:03:36.330 Stopping process: osx/ffmpeg
[Thread-210] DEBUG 18:03:36.330 Killing the Unix process: 44993
[Thread-266] DEBUG 18:03:36.356 kill: 44993: No such process
[Thread-210] INFO  18:03:36.356 Destroying buffer


I really hope that somebody has an idea, it would be so nice to be able to use my PS3 as a mediaclient

// Daniel

[shagrath]

[h264 @ 0x105ba00]Cannot parallelize deblocking type 1

in transcoding settings / number of cores, select "1", even if you have a dual core

[dlange]

Hi shagrath,

thanks for your response, but that didn't work either
But I think I have understood what the problem is. When I wrapped my movies into a .mov container (to import it into iTunes) the program added a frame to trick iTunes ... If I try to reconvert the movie, the program only converts the first frame (it doesn't even notice the rest of the movie, it just only sees this first frame).

I think this is the problem, but I still don't have any idea how to get PMS to stream the movie ...

[shagrath]

ok, so maybe mencoder doesn't get it as well and do a bad transcoding of the mov file, resulting in a very shortened video. Unfortunately mencoder is kind of weak with some mov/mp4 files

[dlange]

Exactly, I think this might be the problem. But do you have any idea how to trick mencoder to skip the first frame?

If nothing works I could also try to retransform the movies to .avi, but I do not know how to do this either (I do not want to reencode the movie!!! this would take to much time, I'm more thinking about getting the xvid movie out of the .mov container again (it is still a xvid movie) and get it into the .avi container instead) ... this could be the easiest solution if anybody know how to do this?
I tried for example with ffmpeg (copy the codecs so that it does not reencode the movie) but I get the same problem here, ffmpeg only adds the first frame to the avi movie and then stops copying ...

[shagrath]

Exactly, I think this might be the problem. But do you have any idea how to trick mencoder to skip the first frame?

you can try to add this for example in the custom options of the mencoder config panel:

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-ss 10

[dlange]

you can try to add this for example in the custom options of the mencoder config panel:

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-ss 10

Thanks for the try, but I still get the same error