Help getting freeware TV calibration disk to AVCHD, MP4-->MOV

[hwjohn]

Hi guys,
I am working with a few other guys over at the AV Science forums (www.avsforum.com) on creating a HD calibration disc for televisions. So far we have manage to hash out an HD DVD version, but we would also like to have an AVCHD version for Blu-ray players. This project will be distributed to the community for free, so any help is greatly appreciated.

The guy in charge of authoring is using Ulead Movie Factory, which supports AVCHD creation, but will only accept .mov files as input. I am using Avisynth and MeGUI to encode 1080p clips in h264/mp4. My problem is in getting the MP4 with no audio track to .mov so that we can author it. We don't want any transcoding to take place because we don't want the patterns to be tampered with. We just need to get the MP4 muxed and into .mov.

Are there any freeware programs available that will mux the MP4 without an audio track? If that program exists and won't output to .mov, is there another program that will convert the ouput to .mov? I have tried combinations of all of the following:

VideoLAN
MpegStreamClip
Yamb/MP4box
TMPGEnc
AviDemux
Elecard Xmuxer Pro trial
MeGUI

Any suggestions?

[audyovydeo]

We just need to get the MP4 muxed and into .mov.
Any suggestions?

if you rename your .mp4 file to .mov you might cheat Ulead Movie Factory ?

cheers
audyovydeo

[hwjohn]

if you rename your .mp4 file to .mov you might cheat Ulead Movie Factory ?

cheers
audyovydeo

Hadn't thought of that, thanks for the suggestion.

[Shinigami-Sama]

I had thought mkv tool could output to the mov container?

[bill_baroud]

ffmpeg should be able to output mov without much problem...

[SeeMoreDigital]

....My problem is in getting the MP4 with no audio track to .mov so that we can author it. We don't want any transcoding to take place because we don't want the patterns to be tampered with. We just need to get the MP4 muxed and into .mov.

Are there any freeware programs available that will mux the MP4 without an audio track? Some people have had varying degrees of success using FFmpeg.

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=130765

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=117772

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=128922

However, if you're after 100% compatibility with the .MOV container you'll have to use (pay for) QuickTime7Pro.


Cheers

[hwjohn]

Thanks guys. I actually tried ffmpeg (forgot to list it). It blew the file size up about 400% and created a file that would not play in anything (WMP, VideoLan, etc.).

I'll take a look at mkv tool. The problem is that is is difficult to even get the thing muxed because I don't have an audio track to go with it, so a lot of programs won't even attempt to mux it. I'm not sure if the problem is in the conversion to mov or that the muxed mp4 isnt correct from the start.

Thanks again for the suggestions.

[Shinigami-Sama]

Thanks guys. I actually tried ffmpeg (forgot to list it). It blew the file size up about 400% and created a file that would not play in anything (WMP, VideoLan, etc.).

I'll take a look at mkv tool. The problem is that is is difficult to even get the thing muxed because I don't have an audio track to go with it, so a lot of programs won't even attempt to mux it. I'm not sure if the problem is in the conversion to mov or that the muxed mp4 isnt correct from the start.

Thanks again for the suggestions.

you could start by re-muxing the mp4, and/or checking for compliance
and its mkvtoolnix theres thread about it hanging around here