Hi,

I have been trying to encapsulate an H.264 elementary stream into an MPEG Transport Stream file but I am having problems. The command I use is:

ffmpeg -y -i Vantage_x264_6Mbps.264 -vcodec copy vantage.ts

My output for the above command is:

FFmpeg version 0.5-30.el5, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
configuration: --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 --shlibdir=/usr/lib64 --mandir=/usr/share/man --enable-shared --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-sws cale --enable-avfilter --enable-avfilter-lavf --enable-pthreads --enable-x11grab --enable-vdpau --disable-avisynth --disable-libamr-nb --disable-libamr-wb - -enable-libdc1394 --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-libfaadbin --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264 --enable- libxvid --extra-cflags=-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -fPIC --disab le-stripping --extra-cflags=-I/usr/include/nvidia-graphics --extra-ldflags=-L/usr/lib64/nvidia-graphics
libavutil 49.15. 0 / 49.15. 0
libavcodec 52.20. 0 / 52.20. 0
libavformat 52.31. 0 / 52.31. 0
libavdevice 52. 1. 0 / 52. 1. 0
libavfilter 0. 4. 0 / 0. 4. 0
libswscale 0. 7. 1 / 0. 7. 1
libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
built on Mar 15 2009 14:08:04, gcc: 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)

Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 48.00 (48/1) -> 24.00 (48/2)
Input #0, h264, from 'Vantage_x264_6Mbps.264':
Duration: N/A, bitrate: N/A
Stream #0.0: Video: h264, yuv420p, 1920x1080, 24 tbr, 1200k tbn, 48 tbc
Output #0, mpegts, to 'vantage.ts':
Stream #0.0: Video: libx264, yuv420p, 1920x1080, q=2-31, 90k tbn, 24 tbc
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Press [q] to stop encoding
[mpegts @ 0x11caa190]dts < pcr, TS is invalid
Last message repeated 48211 times557kB time=99.92 bitrate=9884.5kbits/s
[NULL @ 0x11ca9d90]missing picture in access unit
frame= 2853 fps= 0 q=-1.0 Lsize= 142889kB time=118.87 bitrate=9847.0kbits/s
video:87314kB audio:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 63.649827%
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

The generated TS doesn't play using the VLC player.

Interestingly, if I try to put the H.264 Elementary Stream into an MP4 container, all works fine and the playback is superb:

ffmpeg -y -i Vantage_x264_6Mbps.264 -vcodec copy vantage.mp4


Can someone please point me to what I need to do to get this working?
Thanks.

Try with mencoder

Yes, I have been looking into mencoder as well to create the MPEG-TS file but I have had no success.
Does anyone know the command line to put a H.264 Elementary Stream in MPEG-TS container?

You want to create a DVD? Did you tried tools like 2ManDVD (recommanded, but you have to check dependencies manually) or DeVeDe?

No, I don't want to create a DVD. I would like to put an H.264 encoded Elementary Stream (encoded using x264) into an MPEG-TS container for streaming and testing purposes.

I tried using a more recent SVN version (9/11/09) of ffmpeg to
encapsulate a raw H.264 Elementary Stream file into an MPEG-TS
container file and I got different results (from an older version from March '09) which still didn't work.

Here is my command line:

./ffmpeg -i ./Narnia.264 -vcodec copy -an narnia2.ts

Output:

FFmpeg version SVN-r19819-snapshot, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice
Bellard, et al.
configuration:
libavutil 50. 3. 0 / 50. 3. 0
libavcodec 52.35. 0 / 52.35. 0
libavformat 52.38. 0 / 52.38. 0
libavdevice 52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0
libswscale 0. 7. 1 / 0. 7. 1
built on Sep 11 2009 10:26:09, gcc: 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)

Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate:
48.00 (48/1) -> 24.00 (48/2)
Input #0, h264, from './Narnia.264':
Duration: N/A, bitrate: N/A
Stream #0.0: Video: h264, yuv420p, 1920x1080, 24 tbr, 1200k tbn, 48 tbc
Output #0, mpegts, to 'narnia2.ts':
Stream #0.0: Video: 0x0000, yuv420p, 1920x1080, q=2-31, 90k tbn, 24 tbc
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Press [q] to stop encoding
[mpegts @ 0x7643ab0]first pts value must set
av_interleaved_write_frame(): Error while opening file

Any tips??

ffmpeg -i input.m4v output.ts

That would normally work, if it don't, then you are missing some codecs.

I don't think so because, according to ffmpeg output, it is correctly able to identify the stream and also it doesn't need to decode/encode but just copy it into the MPEG-TS container. At this point, I don't care about sticking with mencoder or ffmpeg. If anyone has info about any other tool that can put a H.264 ES into a MPEG-TS, that would make my day.

You can look at avidemux. It is available via most distro's package managers. It simplifies a lot of conversions.

Hi
I am new in this field, and i want to do vedio file segmentation for my Linux server. I have done the segmentation for my MAC OS, But really i have no clue and idea of doing it for Linux. As i am a beginner, so please post how to do it.
I have read in various commands that we have to do it by using segmenter.c with FFMPEG. I dont know anything about both of it. So can anybody please tell me the procedure in detail from scratch to do it.
Any little help will be appreciated greatly, as i should have to do it asap, coz i am stuck in it from the past 5,6 days and today i want to leave the seat after doing it. So dear looking forward for your positive response.