"Cannot be played on the Ipod"

[DVDguy]

80G IPOD Video. Lots of Room. Using v2.3

I convert using the DVD Decrypter method.

Video loads into itunes fine. Can play it there. When I try and sync my ipod, error says that the Video cannot be played on my Ipod.

Can anyone help?

[jrusch]

I am getting the exact same error message.

[DVDguy]

Are we alone out there?

[anime_phobia]

Yea i seem to be having the same problem. I selected the MPEG 4 786kbps Stereo/128kbps. It converts the file and everything and I can then take that file into iTunes and have it play but it says that my ipod can't play it. Every file that i've converted this way says that it is a MPEG 4 Movie file, but podcasts are displayed as a MPEG 4 Video file so is there something we just aren't doing or do we have defective ipods? How do we switch that MPEG 4 Movie to Video?

Thanks.

[Sketch]

Could one of you post a debug log of the conversion (up until the "press <q> to quit" part) please? You can activate debugging on the console tab.

[Mark Brock]

I bought an ipod video two days ago and have just tried to put my first movie, Pirates Of the Caribbean 2 on it, using this software but although i have put it onto my hard drive via DVD Decrypter and then used Videora V2.3 to convert to Mpeg4 it says it cant be loaded onto the ipod as the ipod cant play it. Any idea's. It plays in both Quicktime and itunes.

[DVDguy]

Ok, this is how it starts out:

EXEC: C:\Program Files\Red Kawa\Video Converter\Tools\MediaInfo\MediaInfo.exe --Inform=Video;file://"C:\Program Files\Red Kawa\Video Converter\Tools\MediaInfo\parameters.txt" "J:\Test\VIDEO_TS\VTS_09_1.VOB"

PlayTime=00:18:31.067
MSG - Video Length is 1111s

Width=720

Height=480

AspectRatio=1.333

FrameRate=29.970
EXEC: C:\Program Files\Red Kawa\Video Converter\Tools\FFmpeg\ffmpeg.exe -y -i "J:\Test\VIDEO_TS\VTS_09_1.VOB" -f mp4 -title "VTS_09_1" -timestamp "2007-02-28 08:43:39" -vcodec h264 -b 768k -bt 768 -flags +loop -cmp +chroma -partitions +parti4x4+partp4x4+partp8x8+partb8x8 -me umh -subq 7 -trellis 2 -refs 1 -coder 0 -me_range 16 -g 300 -keyint_min 25 -sc_threshold 40 -i_qfactor 0.71 -maxrate 10M -bufsize 10M -rc_eq "blurCplx^(1-qComp)" -qcomp 0.6 -qmin 10 -qmax 51 -qdiff 4 -level 30 -acodec aac -ac 2 -ab 128 "C:\Program Files\Red Kawa\Video Converter\Videos\iPod\H264\VTS_09_1.mp4-1"

FFmpeg version SVN-r7906, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
configuration: --enable-mp3lame --enable-libnut --enable-libogg --enable-vorbis --enable-faad --enable-faac --enable-libgsm --enable-xvid --enable-x264 --enable-mingw32 --enable-a52 --enable-dts --enable-pp --enable-amr_nb --enable-amr_wb --enable-swscaler --enable-avisynth --enable-pthreads --enable-gpl --enable-memalign-hack --cpu=i686 --extra-ldflags=-static
libavutil version: 49.3.0
libavcodec version: 51.32.0
libavformat version: 51.8.0
built on Feb 10 2007 17:57:18, gcc: 4.3.0 20070126 (experimental)
Input #0, mpeg, from 'J:\Test\VIDEO_TS\VTS_09_1.VOB':
Duration: 00:18:29.1, start: 0.300300, bitrate: 6321 kb/s
Stream #0.0[0x1e0]: Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 720x480, 7500 kb/s, 29.97 fps(r)
Stream #0.1[0x80]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 224 kb/s
Output #0, mp4, to 'C:\Program Files\Red Kawa\Video Converter\Videos\iPod\H264\VTS_09_1.mp4-1':
Stream #0.0: Video: h264, yuv420p, 720x480, q=10-51, 768 kb/s, 29.97 fps(c)
Stream #0.1: Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, stereo, 128 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Stream #0.1 -> #0.1
[h264 @ 00A06820]using SAR=8/9
[h264 @ 00A06820]using cpu capabilities MMX MMXEXT SSE SSE2
[h264 @ 00A06820]bitrate tolerance too small, using .01
Press [q] to stop encoding
frame= 19 q=10.0 size= 1kB time=0.3 bitrate= 40.2kbits/s
frame= 40 q=10.0 size= 2kB time=0.7 bitrate= 18.5kbits/s

Its shows a ton of "frame" conversions .....

Have to go to work, so couldn't post how it wraps up. Will do so tonight. But that is how it starts.

[DVDguy]

Ok, home for lunch and it was done.

EXEC: C:\Program Files\Red Kawa\Video Converter\Tools\MediaInfo\MediaInfo.exe --Inform=Video;file://"C:\Program Files\Red Kawa\Video Converter\Tools\MediaInfo\parameters.txt" "J:\Test\VIDEO_TS\VTS_09_1.VOB"

PlayTime=00:18:31.067
MSG - Video Length is 1111s

Width=720

Height=480

AspectRatio=1.333

FrameRate=29.970
EXEC: C:\Program Files\Red Kawa\Video Converter\Tools\FFmpeg\ffmpeg.exe -y -i "J:\Test\VIDEO_TS\VTS_09_1.VOB" -f mp4 -title "VTS_09_1" -timestamp "2007-02-28 09:06:01" -vcodec h264 -b 768k -bt 768 -flags +loop -cmp +chroma -partitions +parti4x4+partp4x4+partp8x8+partb8x8 -me umh -subq 7 -trellis 2 -refs 1 -coder 0 -me_range 16 -g 300 -keyint_min 25 -sc_threshold 40 -i_qfactor 0.71 -maxrate 10M -bufsize 10M -rc_eq "blurCplx^(1-qComp)" -qcomp 0.6 -qmin 10 -qmax 51 -qdiff 4 -level 30 -acodec aac -ac 2 -ab 128 "C:\Program Files\Red Kawa\Video Converter\Videos\iPod\H264\VTS_09_1.mp4-1"

FFmpeg version SVN-r7906, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
configuration: --enable-mp3lame --enable-libnut --enable-libogg --enable-vorbis --enable-faad --enable-faac --enable-libgsm --enable-xvid --enable-x264 --enable-mingw32 --enable-a52 --enable-dts --enable-pp --enable-amr_nb --enable-amr_wb --enable-swscaler --enable-avisynth --enable-pthreads --enable-gpl --enable-memalign-hack --cpu=i686 --extra-ldflags=-static
libavutil version: 49.3.0
libavcodec version: 51.32.0
libavformat version: 51.8.0
built on Feb 10 2007 17:57:18, gcc: 4.3.0 20070126 (experimental)
Input #0, mpeg, from 'J:\Test\VIDEO_TS\VTS_09_1.VOB':
Duration: 00:18:29.1, start: 0.300300, bitrate: 6321 kb/s
Stream #0.0[0x1e0]: Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 720x480, 7500 kb/s, 29.97 fps(r)
Stream #0.1[0x80]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 224 kb/s
Output #0, mp4, to 'C:\Program Files\Red Kawa\Video Converter\Videos\iPod\H264\VTS_09_1.mp4-1':
Stream #0.0: Video: h264, yuv420p, 720x480, q=10-51, 768 kb/s, 29.97 fps(c)
Stream #0.1: Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, stereo, 128 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Stream #0.1 -> #0.1
[h264 @ 00A06820]using SAR=8/9
[h264 @ 00A06820]using cpu capabilities MMX MMXEXT SSE SSE2
[h264 @ 00A06820]bitrate tolerance too small, using .01
Press [q] to stop encoding
frame= 22 q=10.0 size= 1kB time=0.3 bitrate= 40.2kbits/s
frame= 44 q=10.0 size= 2kB time=1.2 bitrate= 14.0kbits/s
frame= 66 q=10.0 size= 2kB time=1.7 bitrate= 11.6kbits/s
frame= 88 q=10.0 size= 3kB time=2.3 bitrate= 10.5kbits/s

Lots of Frames then this:

frame=33293 q=10.0 size= 121282kB time=1110.3 bitrate= 894.9kbits/s
frame=33299 q=23286.0 Lsize= 121951kB time=1110.9 bitrate= 899.3kbits/s

video:103969kB audio:17313kB global headers:1kB muxing overhead 0.550897%
[h264 @ 00A06820]slice I:133 Avg QP:18.67 size: 21438
[h264 @ 00A06820]slice P:33166 Avg QP:22.16 size: 3124
[h264 @ 00A06820]mb I I16..4: 57.4% 0.0% 42.6%
[h264 @ 00A06820]mb P I16..4: 6.4% 0.0% 1.5% P16..4: 28.8% 6.6% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% skip:56.0%
[h264 @ 00A06820]final ratefactor: 22.92
[h264 @ 00A06820]SSIM Mean Y:0.9807169
[h264 @ 00A06820]kb/s:766.6
EXEC: C:\Program Files\Red Kawa\Video Converter\Tools\NicMP4Box\NicMP4Box.exe -itags "Name=VTS_09_1" -add "C:\Program Files\Red Kawa\Video Converter\Videos\iPod\H264\VTS_09_1.mp4-1" "C:\Program Files\Red Kawa\Video Converter\Videos\iPod\H264\VTS_09_1.mp4"


Then:

Importing ISO File: | | (01/100)
Importing ISO File: | | (02/100)
Importing ISO File: | | (03/100)
Importing ISO File: | | (04/100)
Importing ISO File: |= | (05/100)
Importing ISO File: |= | (06/100)
Importing ISO File: |= | (07/100)
Importing ISO File: |= | (08/100)
Importing ISO File: |= | (09/100)

Lots of Importing.... then:


Importing ISO File: |=================== | (98/100)
Importing ISO File: |=================== | (99/100)

Saving C:\Program Files\Red Kawa\Video Converter\Videos\iPod\H264\VTS_09_1.mp4: 0.500 secs Interleaving
ISO File Writing: | | (01/100)
ISO File Writing: | | (02/100)
ISO File Writing: | | (03/100)

Lots of Writing .... then:

ISO File Writing: |=================== | (98/100)
ISO File Writing: |=================== | (99/100)

EXEC: C:\Program Files\Red Kawa\Video Converter\Tools\AddToItunes\AddToItunes.exe -add "C:\Program Files\Red Kawa\Video Converter\Videos\iPod\H264\VTS_09_1.mp4"

iTunes Library Tool
Red Kawa Inc.
http://www.redkawa.com
Failed
DELETE: C:\Program Files\Red Kawa\Video Converter\Videos\iPod\H264\VTS_09_1.mp4-1

[samie81]

I am having the same problem...Can't be played on iPod. The older version (I don't know which) of Videora Convert worked just fine.

Also, it took all night (18 hours or so) to convert one movie to MPEG 4 with the new standard settings...It used to take 4 hrs (double pass). I'm wishing I hadn't upgraded quite yet.

[Sketch]

DVD guy: Your resolution is too big. iPod only supports up to 640x480 output video. If you are not resizing the video before running the converter, you need to set the output resolution manually (edit) within the converter settings.

[DVDguy]

Sketch... thanks for the note.

"DVD guy: Your resolution is too big. iPod only supports up to 640x480 output video."

So this setting is within' Videora???

You know what, it surprises me that a program that promotes itself as a "iPod Converter" would allow resolution higher than what an IPOD will play.

"If you are not resizing the video before running the converter"

So does that mean I have to resize Video BEFORE running Videora...???

[DVDguy]

I Don't see any section within Videora to change : "640x480 output video".

And some how I can't see DVDDcryptor changing the resolution either.

[Red Kawa]

There is a small but very nasty bug present in Videora iPod Converter that is causing this and also the slow encoding problems.

We will issue a new release as soon as we are able to fix this.

[DVDguy]

SWEET!

Glad you found the problem, and we look forward to seeing a the new release!

[dsockel]

I want to know if 2.01 or 2.02 are good to use.

[spike]

I've been having this problem with 2.02 and 2.03. Is the bug you identified causing this error or is it the resolution? Has anyone been able to change the resolution settings and get it to load on their ipod?

Thanks.

[Red Kawa]

You should not use 2,01, 2,02 or 2,03.
You should use 2.04.

This issue should now be fixed as of version 2.04.

Please see our blog post for more details:
http://www.redkawa.com/blog/post.php?t=486

[DVDguy]

Downloaded the new version.... converting the exact same Video... will report back.

[abcdmbbs]

Which profile to be used to convert avi file for ipod... Though it should be less than 640x840 -- the converter has no mention of it in the profile... they all are in kbps

[trekkie101]

In the profile settings
(Settings--->Converter Tab--->Profile list(pick one)--->click Edit Profile button)
Video "Tab" and on the upper left hand corner it should say original all the way down. Then below that AutoResize is usually enabled to make sure the video isn't over sized...so You'll be ok using any profile but there is a difference between VGA and QVGA. VGA=640x480max QVGA=320x240max.

Personally, I would suggest H.264 VGA 768kbps Stereo/128kbps.

[DVDguy]

Update:

Just did the exact same file. Converted. Moved to IPOD. And the sucker works!!! There we go. Thanks for reacting so quickly, hope my posts helped in some way.

[spike]

Worked for me too...WOOHOO!!! I used H.264 VGA 768kbps Stereo/128kbps

Just one more question. If I have a widescreen movie that I would like to convert and would like to preserve the whole widescreen while allowing the black bars on the top and bottom, what profile should I use?

[trekkie101]

Any will do, Use the same profile. It will automatically keep it widescreen.

[Sketch]

Any will do, Use the same profile. It will automatically keep it widescreen.
So for 2.35:1 content, the bars are cropped from the input source automatically?

[spike]

trekkie - actually, the top and the bottom are brought to the full edges of the screen but the left and right sides are cropped. I can tell because the movie credits are chopped off when I watch it from the beginning.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Red Kawa]

There is no automatic cropping or cropping tool present.

If you want to crop your video you'll have to do it manually:
1. Create a profile with a position set to somewhere in the movie and duration of like 5 seconds, make sure resolution is set to original and AutoResize is off.
2. Encode your movie with that profile
3. Open it up a figure out how many pixels you want to crop from the top and the bottom
4. Create a 2nd new profile, enter your crop values into the crop section and save.
5. Encode your video with the second profile

And thats it.

[ediblecorpse]

I had the exact same problem with this on my iPod. I'm no techical expert, and have no idea what's wrong, but I got it to work fine by changeing the video profile from H.264 VGA 768kbps Stereo.128kbps to H.264 QVGA 512kbps Stereo/128kbps and everything transfers just fine now. I don't know if that will be what solves the problem in a way that everyone will like, but I figured I'd just put it out there.

Edit: Er, just ignore me. Missed the post with the solution :P

[Help My IPod]

hi i just downloaded a mpeg 4 movie off of a bittorrent and i imported it onto my itunes and it plays on itunes but when i go to put it on my ipod it sais my ipod cant play the video. i read the thing about the resolution has to be lower than 640x840 but i cant tell what the resolution is on it. could anyone tell me where i can find the resolution of the movie on itunes?

[Sketch]

Start your own thread and with a console log (instructions in my sig), please.