mooglinux
14th December 2008, 04:20
I have a batch of videos (anime) encoded with h.264 and in an mkv container with soft subs. i want to convert those to a small h.264 video that will play properly on a new ipod. Since ipod does not support soft subs, they need to be overlayed/hardcoded. Also, i really need this to be easy to run once setup, so someone besides me who is less techie can run it without a problem.
What i have tried:
VLC: i have stalked the vlc irc channel for days trying to resolve the issue of vlc not finding the encoders. i always get the error message Streaming / Transcoding failed:
VLC could not open the encoder.
I have been stalking the vlc irc channel for a week now and have had no luck getting it resolved. no luck.
MediaCoder: The problem here is that the sound and video are terribly out of sync. no matter what framerate i choose, it seems that the video plays back faster than it ought to. it does overlay subs, which is more than i have gotten out of any other gui i have tried
other guis, like MEgui and avidemux, can seem to only overlay the subs if provided in a seperate file, rather than the subs in the mkv. extracting them and then re-adding them works for one quick and dirty encode, but not a good final solution.
so thats my challenge. suggestions?
What i have tried:
VLC: i have stalked the vlc irc channel for days trying to resolve the issue of vlc not finding the encoders. i always get the error message Streaming / Transcoding failed:
VLC could not open the encoder.
I have been stalking the vlc irc channel for a week now and have had no luck getting it resolved. no luck.
MediaCoder: The problem here is that the sound and video are terribly out of sync. no matter what framerate i choose, it seems that the video plays back faster than it ought to. it does overlay subs, which is more than i have gotten out of any other gui i have tried
other guis, like MEgui and avidemux, can seem to only overlay the subs if provided in a seperate file, rather than the subs in the mkv. extracting them and then re-adding them works for one quick and dirty encode, but not a good final solution.
so thats my challenge. suggestions?