[FFmpeg-user] Transcoding for the Roku with recent ffmpeg

[Yan Seiner]

Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> Yan Seiner <yan <at> seiner.com> writes:
>
>   
>> One more time, lots of googling and this seems to be 
>> my problem. Is there any way to set the audio and 
>> video interleave?
>>
>> The Roku Box does not support playing content that 
>> does not interleave the audio and the video.
>>     
>
> I don't remember a bug report about bad mov interleaving 
> and I don't think this changed lately so this sounds 
> very unlikely to me.
>
> Given that the two files you posted information about 
> were completely differently encoded (x264 options), I 
> strongly suspect this is where the problem lies.
>   
Well, my latest effort is pretty close:

ffmpeg 1.0, doesn't play ***********************************************************

< Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.152
< Stream size                              : 1.57 GiB (89%)
< Writing library                          : x264 core 129 r2230 1cffe9f
< Encoding settings                        : cabac=0 / ref=3 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x1:0x111 / me=hex / subme=7 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=0 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=3 / lookahead_threads=1 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=0 / weightp=0 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=19.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00

ffmpeg 0.8, plays ************************************************************

> Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.163
> Stream size                              : 937 MiB (88%)
> Writing library                          : x264 core 114
> Encoding settings                        : cabac=0 / ref=5 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x1:0x111 / me=umh / subme=8 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=0 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=3 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=0 / weightp=0 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=50 / rc=abr / mbtree=1 / bitrate=1200 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.41 / aq=1:1.00


The only difference is the me_method, which I have fixed in my current attempt, and the rc and ref, which I'm still trying to figure out....

do you know what options control those settings?