Comments on: Transcoding for iPhone in Sage

By: Syed Shani

Syed Shani — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:12:49 +0000

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By: Convert Sage recordings to iPhone « onlydarksets

Convert Sage recordings to iPhone « onlydarksets — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:21:49 +0000

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By: onlydarksets

onlydarksets — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:01:11 +0000

Now mencoder is giving me fits, and the video shows up black. I’m going to just use ffmpeg for now (since it just works), take the performance hit, and I’ll play with mencoder sometime down the road.

By: onlydarksets

onlydarksets — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:17:55 +0000

OK – no question, the mencoder/ffmpeg solution has more overhead than the mencoder/NicMP4Box solution. In my tests, remuxing was many times faster. Plus, I’m more used to mencoder profiles than ffmpeg, so that’s the route I’m going to go.

Either way, AtomicParsley is very easy to use, so writing metadata won’t be an issue. Getting the metadata…well, I’ll start a new thread if I have any issues!

By: onlydarksets

onlydarksets — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:32:51 +0000

Not really. Used to be it didn't support aac at all, so you needed ffmpeg. Now, it supports aac, but it needs to be remuxed with either ffmpeg or MP4Box in order to be recognized by iTunes. So, either way I have to run 2 passes to either: 1. Remove commercials using mencoder, then convert using ffmpeg. 2. Remove commercials and convert using mencoder, then remux using ffmpeg/MP4Box. I don't know which has more overhead, so I'll probably try them both. According to Coyote, splicing takes more time than remuxing, but I have two disks, so that should help.

By: andy vt

andy vt — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:34:44 +0000

mencoder doesn’t play nice with the iphone?

By: onlydarksets

onlydarksets — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:22:30 +0000

I didn't mention this was for the iPhone, did I? Post updated. I think I'll end up using the mencoder version you mentioned a while back to cut the commercials, ffmpeg to do the conversion, and then Atomic Parsley to write the metadata. I haven't tried AP yet, so I might give this GUI tool a go in the interim.

By: andy vt

andy vt — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:02:25 +0000

mencoder supports edl files, that’s what I use…