MP4 problem H.263 codec

Communist_Hitler · Post by **Communist_Hitler** » Sat May 27, 2006 8:27 am

Heil

How do I tell my goddamned video editors that mp4 files DO have video streams? They keep treating them like audio files!!!!!

Gepetto · Post by **Gepetto** » Sat May 27, 2006 8:29 am

Communist_Hitler wrote:How do I tell my goddamned video editors that mp4 files DO have video streams?

Have you tried whispering it softly into their ears over a candlelit dinner?

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Sat May 27, 2006 11:29 am

Most video editing software is not designed to edit video in an mp4 container.

Communist_Hitler · Post by **Communist_Hitler** » Sun May 28, 2006 6:03 am

so what do I do about it?

Willen · Post by **Willen** » Sun May 28, 2006 10:00 am

Ideally, you'd re-encode them to another edit-friendly codec like Lagarith or Huffyuv. Or if you have gads of HDD space, uncompressed RGB AVI.

Communist_Hitler · Post by **Communist_Hitler** » Sun May 28, 2006 1:42 pm

Willen wrote:Ideally, you'd re-encode them to another edit-friendly codec like Lagarith or Huffyuv. Or if you have gads of HDD space, uncompressed RGB AVI.

I would do that, but virtualdub won't open the file. "Can't determine format".

Gepetto · Post by **Gepetto** » Sun May 28, 2006 1:46 pm

Communist_Hitler wrote:virtualdub won't open the file

Did you try EO Video?

I can't say for sure, but maybe dBpowerAMP can do it? It's an audio converter but since it treats wmv as audio, maybe you can shift from MP4 to WMV.

Of course, maybe it'll only transcode the audio stream and since you'll have to recompress the already recompressed wmv to avi you'll really lose a lot of quality in the source clip.

Communist_Hitler · Post by **Communist_Hitler** » Sun May 28, 2006 1:47 pm

either way it's worth a shot. Where do I download it?

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Sun May 28, 2006 1:48 pm

No, use this: http://yamb.unite-video.com/

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Sun May 28, 2006 1:53 pm

Well, actually, that will only work if its an ASP video stream, if it tries to toss an AVC video stream into an avi you will probably have trouble.

The other viable method is to load the MP4 file through AVISynth.

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