Transcoding is the direct digital-to-digital data conversion of one encoding to another (video and audio format)
Questions tagged [transcoding]
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How to detect generation loss of a transcoded audio
Lets say you have a 96 kbit mp3 and you Transcode the file into a 320 kbit mp3. How could you programmatically detect the original bit rate or quality? Generation loss is created because each time a lossy algorithm is applied new information will…

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Objective-C, AVFoundation Export movie with changed metadata
I want to export some video with custom creation date in metadata to mov file. The problem is, that I managed only to change one of dates stored in file. This is ffmpeg output of created video:
Metadata:
major_brand : qt
minor_version …

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Problems transcoding GoToMeeting output using FFmpeg
I'm having a nightmare of a time transcoding output from GoToMeeting, recorded using the latest OS X version, to something web-playable. No matter what settings I use, I end up with time syncing problems, at least with this particular recording.
The…

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FFMpeg's stream segmenter
I'm using FFMpeg to segment a WAV file into mp3s for use in HTTP Live Streaming.
I'm using this command:
ffmpeg -i input.wav -c:a libmp3lame -b:a 128k -map 0:0 -f segment
-segment_time 10 -segment_list outputlist.m3u8 -segment_format mp3…

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AAC's converted from CAFs for HTTP Live Streaming
I have several AAC files that were converted from CAF files, for use in HTTP Live Streaming. The stream works, however there is a small gap between each AAC file. It is my understanding that this gap is caused by the "Priming" and "Remainder" frames…

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Will using an NSKeyedArchiver/NSCoder persist even after an application update?
I have NSKeyedArchiver and NSCoder data being persisted (as .txt files) and working great. When I deploy new builds to the iphone, the text files are still present - in other words, they are not being written over.
However, I want to make sure that…

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How to encode audio in AAC-LC, AAC-HE-V1, AAC-HE-V2 using libavcodec?
I am trying to encode audio in AAC-LC,AAC-HE-V1, AAC-HE-V2 using libavcodec/ffmpeg APIs.
But when I am using the following configuration and API calls.It says "invalid AAC profile."
AVCodecContext *encoder_ctx;
encoder_ctx->codec_id = …

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How do you connect to AWS Elastic Transcoder?
I'm trying to transcode some videos, but something is wrong with the way I am connecting.
Here's my code:
transcode = layer1.ElasticTranscoderConnection()
transcode.DefaultRegionEndpoint =…

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HTML5 Multi-platform player with one Wowza stream
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FLV Video files being served by Wowza Media Server to be played on all devices, platform/browser independent. I'm currently working with a player loaded with AJAX which uses VideoJS.
WHERE IM WORKING
http://activemd.net/html5/
THE CODE
It…

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Remuxing mp4 on the fly with FFmpeg API
My goal is to stream out mpegts. As input, I take an mp4 file stream. That is, video producer writes mp4 file into a stream that I try to work with. The video may be anywhere from one minute to ten minutes. Because producer writes bytes into stream,…

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Raspberry Pi: MJPEG encoding
I'd like to transcode video from H264 to MJPEG on the Pi.
Schematically, there's a process that injects an H264 raw stream in a pipe and takes out (in real time) the same stream, encoded with MJPEG, from anoher pipe. Currently, the black box that…

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Video Format Analyzer
I have a video file I don't know what format it is.
Is there a software can analyze what kind of video container / compression format it uses?
I tried Gspot, but it doesn't work (Show "Unknown format")
I am sure the file is using some kind of public…

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android.media.MediaExtractor. Anyone got this beast to work? "Failed to instantiate extractor" exception
Trying to run this (example code from developer.android.com)
MediaExtractor extractor = new MediaExtractor();
extractor.setDataSource("/sdcard/myvideo.mp4");
Getting "Failed to instantiate extractor" exception on the second line.
Tried to place the…

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Does ffmpeg rewrite the header after finish transcoding?
Our client sends a request to download a movie file from a server. As the server receives the request, it will start a ffmpeg process to transcode the movie. The output of ffmpeg is temporarily saved to harddisk. We dont want to make client to wait…

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Mac OS command line tool handle asynchronous export video for re-encoding (Edited and working now)
I tested the export method on an iOS application and it works fine. But when I moved it to a command line project the method exportAsynchronouslyWithCompletionHandler doesn't work.
I know the possible cause is the command line tool cannot handle…

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