Mux h.264 into TS with Project-X?

[zzuser]

Hi all!

Does anybody know if it is possible to mux a h.264 file into an MPEG-2 Transport Stream with Project-X? All I manage to get is dropped video due to large GOPs. Perhaps Project-X is not up to the task?

Thanks in advance for any help or pointers.

-> Input File 0: 'D:\short_1500.h264' (11 049 896 bytes)
-> Filetype is ES (MPEG Video)
-> dropping video data, GOP larger than 6MB

-> Video: fr/ ct/ 1p/ cg/ og/ dg -> 0/ 0/ 0/ 0/ 0/ 0

summary of created media files:
=> 0 bytes written...
-> we have 0 warnings/errors.

- Zed

[popper]

Hi all!

Does anybody know if it is possible to mux a h.264 file into an MPEG-2 Transport Stream with Project-X? All I manage to get is dropped video due to large GOPs. Perhaps Project-X is not up to the task?

Thanks in advance for any help or pointers.

-> Input File 0: 'D:\short_1500.h264' (11 049 896 bytes)
-> Filetype is ES (MPEG Video)
-> dropping video data, GOP larger than 6MB

-> Video: fr/ ct/ 1p/ cg/ og/ dg -> 0/ 0/ 0/ 0/ 0/ 0

summary of created media files:
=> 0 bytes written...
-> we have 0 warnings/errors.

- Zed

good question, is there any free tool that will as zed asks, place a avc/aac/ac3 inside a valid transport stream.

[bond]

why do you need avc in ts?

[zzuser]

why do you need avc in ts?

In order to be able to distribute the MPEG-4 stream.

- Zed

[pandy]

good question, is there any free tool that will as zed asks, place a avc/aac/ac3 inside a valid transport stream.

VLC ?

trying with ffmpeg wit some problems (bad data rate, plenty of PTS errors etc) - seems that VLC can create valid TS without stuffing (PID $1FFF)

[zzuser]

VLC ?

The new nightly builds of VLC are definitely getting better. Playback of streams muxed with VLC usually goes just fine, but that is not quite satisfactory. I've tried all free and commercial software muxers I can think of: VLC, ffmpeg, Project-X, Mainconcept encoder, Elecard Xmuxer and Ateme encoder.

The problems with the muxers manifest themselves in the following ways, in ascending severity:
(i) the muxer fails to work
(ii) the muxer produces streams with a bitrate which is multiple times larger than the input bitrate
(iii) the muxed stream has playback problems
(iv) the muxed stream crashes the STB

Somehow I had this silly notion of finding a muxer that (i) works, (ii) produces the correct bitrate, (iii) has no playback problems and (iv) does not crash STBs.

- Zed

[popper]

ha, you will be wanting to include PAL PIP,SD, and HD encodes in there too i bet.........

by the way, is standard PIP spec compatable with the new DVB-H/screensizes ?, if not then perhaps that might also be needed/wanted to be included in the streams.

what STB by the way?, whats its spec,capabilitys etc.

[zzuser]

ha, you will be wanting to include PAL PIP,SD, and HD encodes in there too i bet.........

I wish. Just getting a workin mux for single track audio and plain video seems to be a challenge.

what STB by the way?, whats its spec,capabilitys etc.

I'm using Mototola STBs, manufactured by Kreatel. The bad news is that they seem to have dropped of the face of the earth since being acquired, so good luck finding any specs online. The STBs are basically passively cooled Linux boxen with a crappy processor and a MPEG-2/MPEG-4 decoder DSP. Codecs by courtesy of Ateme.

- Zed