[FFmpeg-user] coding video for some old Sony

[Kieran O Leary]

Hi

On Thu, 8 Aug 2019, 20:07 Erik Dobák, <erik.dobak at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> i have an old Sony Bravia which accepts only MPEG4 as video and MP3 as
> audio. If i want to watch videos i do it with this command:
>
> ffmpeg -i the_kingdom_of_dreams_and_madness.mp4 -b:v 1M -vcodec mpeg4 -vtag
> xvid -acodec libmp3lame -q:a 2 the_kingdom_of_dreams_and_madness.avi
>
> but for some reason some video do not play at all. some do.
>
> is there a way that the input video could influence the output? I thought
> that when i resample with ffmpeg to these basic codecs all will work...
>
Maybe frame size and bitrate? Post the complete console output of an
instance where the file worked ok your TV and one instance where it didn't.

Best,

Kieran



> Any hints?
>
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