ZProcess: Transcoding avis with non english characters

[zehd]

Ok, I also get the Swedish characters to show in the infile field in Ztranscode and the hebrew characters are also replaced by ??? for me. However, the mismatch problem is still there for both character sets.

Looking forward to your fix.

Thanks,

\\Agerdin

Go ahead and try the new version on the wiki...

Bad news. I have tracked down and followed the process and Hebrew and Swedish (I should say non-English Western) characters aren't working with MEncoder, MPlayer or FFmpeg... I KNOW I've passed the commands correctly. They just don't want to work...

I'm looking into that with the MEncoder folks... (They do FFmpeg too)

As far as Hebrew, well that's probably a limitation of VB6 and my lack of willing to buy a $899 control that will do that for me...

I think I will have better luck with Swedish and other Western languages. Unless something drops out of the sky, I don't think I'll be doing Hebrew.

Hard to pronounce anyway !

[zehd]

I Lied.... I was able to get it all working but only with FFmpeg

(Sorry still no Hebrew)

Basically get the newest version and then for the Trans2MVP Profile select FFmpeg.exe as your preferred Transcoder...

At least you'll have something until I can find out about MEncoder

BTW I had to Hard code an aspect ratio. I chose 4x3...

[agerdin]

(Sorry still no Hebrew)

Zehd, thanks for your help and I understand your VB6 problem with Hebrew characters. I will ask my wife to start renaming

The "Type Mismatch" problem is gone but as I get the ??? instead of hebrewit will not work. The result if of course that file is not found. See below the command line result.

Code:

C:\Documents and Settings\Limor>"C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\Third Party\FFmpeg\ffmpeg.exe" -y -i "D:\My Videos\_Israeli movies\Children Shows\?????? ????? ???
?? ????????.avi" -vcodec mpeg2video -b 2400k -acodec mp3 -ab 192 -ar 44100 -ac 2 -s 640x576 -r 25 -aspect 4:3  -vstats "D:\My Videos\_Israeli movies\Children Sh
ows\MVP000DFE0C49F61.mpg"
FFmpeg version SVN-r7165, Copyright (c) 2000-2006 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
  configuration:  --enable-mp3lame --enable-libnut --enable-libogg --enable-vorbis --enable-faad --enable-faac --enable-libgsm --enable-xvid --enable-x264 --ena
ble-mingw32 --enable-a52 --enable-dts --enable-pp --enable-amr_nb --enable-amr_wb --enable-swscaler --enable-avisynth --enable-gpl --enable-memalign-hack --cpu=
i686 --extra-ldflags=-static
  libavutil version: 49.1.0
  libavcodec version: 51.25.0
  libavformat version: 51.6.0
  built on Nov 24 2006 18:53:03, gcc: 4.0.3
D:\My Videos\_Israeli movies\Children Shows\?????? ????? ????? ????????.avi: I/O error occured
Usually that means that input file is truncated and/or corrupted.

Thanks for your efforts,

\\Agerdin

[zehd]

Zehd, thanks for your help and I understand your VB6 problem with Hebrew characters. I will ask my wife to start renaming

The "Type Mismatch" problem is gone but as I get the ??? instead of hebrewit will not work. The result if of course that file is not found. See below the command line result.

Code:

C:\Documents and Settings\Limor>"C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\Third Party\FFmpeg\ffmpeg.exe" -y -i "D:\My Videos\_Israeli movies\Children Shows\?????? ????? ???
?? ????????.avi" -vcodec mpeg2video -b 2400k -acodec mp3 -ab 192 -ar 44100 -ac 2 -s 640x576 -r 25 -aspect 4:3  -vstats "D:\My Videos\_Israeli movies\Children Sh
ows\MVP000DFE0C49F61.mpg"
FFmpeg version SVN-r7165, Copyright (c) 2000-2006 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
  configuration:  --enable-mp3lame --enable-libnut --enable-libogg --enable-vorbis --enable-faad --enable-faac --enable-libgsm --enable-xvid --enable-x264 --ena
ble-mingw32 --enable-a52 --enable-dts --enable-pp --enable-amr_nb --enable-amr_wb --enable-swscaler --enable-avisynth --enable-gpl --enable-memalign-hack --cpu=
i686 --extra-ldflags=-static
  libavutil version: 49.1.0
  libavcodec version: 51.25.0
  libavformat version: 51.6.0
  built on Nov 24 2006 18:53:03, gcc: 4.0.3
D:\My Videos\_Israeli movies\Children Shows\?????? ????? ????? ????????.avi: I/O error occured
Usually that means that input file is truncated and/or corrupted.

Thanks for your efforts,

\\Agerdin

Yeah, I expected that with the hebrew... but does the Swedish work with FFmpeg?

[agerdin]

Yeah, I expected that with the hebrew... but does the Swedish work with FFmpeg?

Zehd, I actually never had to do this in Swedish but I have tried for testing purposes. See result below. Seems to work just fine even thought the Swedish characters are replaced by other unknown characters.

Code:

C:\Documents and Settings\Limor>"C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\Third Party\FFmpeg\ffmpeg.exe" -y -i "D:\My Videos\_Israeli movies\Children Shows\Från ä till ö.av
i" -vcodec mpeg2video -b 2400k -acodec mp3 -ab 192 -ar 44100 -ac 2 -s 640x576 -r 25 -aspect 4:3  -vstats "D:\My Videos\_Israeli movies\Children Shows\MVP000DFE0
C49F61.mpg"
FFmpeg version SVN-r7165, Copyright (c) 2000-2006 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
  configuration:  --enable-mp3lame --enable-libnut --enable-libogg --enable-vorbis --enable-faad --enable-faac --enable-libgsm --enable-xvid --enable-x264 --ena
ble-mingw32 --enable-a52 --enable-dts --enable-pp --enable-amr_nb --enable-amr_wb --enable-swscaler --enable-avisynth --enable-gpl --enable-memalign-hack --cpu=
i686 --extra-ldflags=-static
  libavutil version: 49.1.0
  libavcodec version: 51.25.0
  libavformat version: 51.6.0
  built on Nov 24 2006 18:53:03, gcc: 4.0.3
Input #0, avi, from 'D:\My Videos\_Israeli movies\Children Shows\Frσn Σ till ÷.avi':
  Duration: 00:04:27.3, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 3228 kb/s
  Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 720x576, 25.00 fps(r)
  Stream #0.1: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 320 kb/s
Output #0, mpeg, to 'D:\My Videos\_Israeli movies\Children Shows\MVP000DFE0C49F61.mpg':
  Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 640x576, q=2-31, 2400 kb/s, 25.00 fps(c)
  Stream #0.1: Audio: mp3, 44100 Hz, stereo, 192 kb/s
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
  Stream #0.1 -> #0.1
Press [q] to stop encoding
[mp3 @ 008F9D60]lame: output buffer too small (buffer index: 237, free bytes: 2067)
frame=  259 q=6.9 Lsize=    3480kB time=10.3 bitrate=2762.4kbits/s
video:3198kB audio:261kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 0.597626%
Received signal 2: terminating.

To bad about the Hebrew thought. Let me know if something comes up in the future.

\\Agerdin

[zehd]

\\Agerdin

Umm... your log indicates that the program terminated incorrectly.... is this really an example of the swedish working, though the characters are wrong?

[agerdin]

Umm... your log indicates that the program terminated incorrectly.... is this really an example of the swedish working, though the characters are wrong?

Ahhh, dont know, I just Ctrl-c as soon as I saw it started transcoding. Thought that was enough to prove that it worked.

\\Anders

[zehd]

Just to clarify, the latest version of ZProcess and MEncoder (1.0rc1-3.4.2) will work with western, non-english characters like French and Swedish.

There still seems to be a problem with FFmpeg...