"Streaming" mp4, Youtube works, mine doesn't

[linyx]

Hello,
I'm trying to make my digital library accessible from several Android tablets. Now, for these files, I know the H.264/AAC (720x480, Baseline; stereo LC) settings are acceptable because they play perfectly when copied to the tablet.

However when pseudo-streaming from a NAS, they will only play for about 2 seconds and then stop, saying "This video cannot be played" or something to that effect. Any youtube video that I stick on the NAS will play just fine (with much higher bitrates than mine, therefore bandwidth isn't the problem), so I assume it's my muxing that is failing. I've tried

mp4box (with -isma)
ffmpeg (with mp4, with flv)
Yamb
x264 (with mp4)

and they all do the same thing. Any help you Doom9 geniuses could offer would be greatly appreciated!

[jmartinr]

Try one of mine: http://www.roelofs-coaching.nl/Blobs/Videos/20120520rwzwolle/Yuan%20F.mp4
It's made with mp4box (with -ipod). If it works i can give more details.

[linyx]

Thank you! Your's works perfectly; however, I just tried one of mine with -ipod, -psp, etc and it still failed.:confused:

[jmartinr]

Maybe the video is the problem. I wouldn't know. What does mediainfo say about the levels of your and my file? Secondly, is your copy of mp4box recent? If not, get it here: http://gpac.wp.mines-telecom.fr/downloads/gpac-nightly-builds/

I use a batch file for encoding my avisynth files (in 2-pass with a bitrate of 1000). The relevant simplified lines are:

x264.exe --preset veryslow --tune film "%%~fP" --pass 1 --bitrate %bitrate% --sar %sar% --stats "%%~dpnP.x264.stats" --vbv-bufsize 10000 --vbv-maxrate 10000 --profile baseline --level 3 --output NUL
x264.exe --preset veryslow --tune film "%%~fP" --pass 2 --bitrate %bitrate% --sar %sar% --stats "%%~dpnP.x264.stats" --vbv-bufsize 10000 --vbv-maxrate 10000 --profile baseline --level 3 --output "%%~dpnP.264"

mp4box.exe -add "%%~nP.264"#1 -add "%%~nP.aac.mp4"#1 -new "%%~nP.mp4" -ipod -par 1=%sar%
And I guess you could also leave the SAR bit out.

[linyx]

Doing mine exactly the way you did works! Yay! Now just to tweak the settings, thank you very much!!

[jmartinr]

Doing mine exactly the way you did works! Yay! Now just to tweak the settings, thank you very much!!
I wouldn't tweak it that much if I were you. I just left out some colormatrix options, nothing more.

If you just use the tune and level options and specify a bitrate that's not to low, it will all be quite well balanced.

However, my files are made for web-http-pseudostreaming. That's not exactly the same as your goal.