New Unsuported format

[acidraven]

Ok so everthing was going good for a while got 6 diffrent things encoded right, now when I encode a full file it comes up unsuported on the ps3 and Quick time gives me a "Error -2002 Bad public movie atom was fond in the movie" I am not sure if the two are related but it keeps happening when I encode files.

[acidraven]

Ohh and there was nothing odd in the log of the encode .

[Stewie]

Your using Quicktime right? It should work with VLC player.

[acidraven]

Dosn't work on the ps3 (the whole point) But Got an error in Quick time so I thought that the error might help.

[acidraven]

Unfortantly I have some minor issues with over scan and have to add padding to the left and right of the video to make it work. without clipping subtitles. But I didn't want to lose much on converting. so I made big files and then deleted them when done.

[vilvic]

I had this problem too. I noticed the file was an unusual resolution so I changed the resolution preset to 624x352. Every conversion since has worked ok and it doesn't seem to affect the amount of time it takes to process.

[nusakan]

I'm working to see what is the cause of it. At least in general what's causing the Unsupported Format issue is. I have about 200+ videos on queue right now converting (started it on friday on my system at work) and they're still going and running the exact same profile. Well, today I hard set the framerates. I used VLC to make a comparison when looking up the streaming information and the only thing I can find different so far is the framerate not being consistant. They're very close to 29.97 but some are +/- .005 frames different. My next step is to do a forced 29.97 on the videos that failed and see if it works this time.

Hopefully I give something within the next few days. I've had better luck with PSPVideo9, or more like I haven't seen any issue since I made a custom profile by modifying some setting in which framerate was hard set. We'll see.

Btw, just because it works on Quicktime or VLC doesn't mean it will work on your PSP/PS3. I can tell you that much already.

[nusakan]

So, tried 4 videos last night, two which I knew worked with the preset default and the two that I knew didn't work. I decided to try again even though I knew which will pass and which will fail with the preset defaults. I encoded those four and they remained the same (2 pass 2 fail). I modified the preset default so that the resolution was set to 720x480 (DVD resolution) instead of input (0x0) and the framerate at 29.97 instead of input (0x0). I ran it again and surely enough the two that failed works on the PS3 now.

When I did my 200+ encoding starting friday, I got about 113 videos that have the unsupported data issue. I'm going to re encode them with the modified setting to see what happens.

Default = MPEG-4 AVC 768 Kbps

Stay tuned.... i guess lol

[cozdiver]

So, tried 4 videos last night, two which I knew worked with the preset default and the two that I knew didn't work. I decided to try again even though I knew which will pass and which will fail with the preset defaults. I encoded those four and they remained the same (2 pass 2 fail). I modified the preset default so that the resolution was set to 720x480 (DVD resolution) instead of input (0x0) and the framerate at 29.97 instead of input (0x0). I ran it again and surely enough the two that failed works on the PS3 now.

When I did my 200+ encoding starting friday, I got about 113 videos that have the unsupported data issue. I'm going to re encode them with the modified setting to see what happens.

Default = MPEG-4 AVC 768 Kbps

Stay tuned.... i guess lol
Good information! Thanks. Could I ask what the resolution and framerates were on the source files that failed using defaults. Also wondering if the changed resolution was an increase or decrease and if that change also changed the ratio . Was the framerate changed from something other than 29.97 and if so, did the audio stay in sync with the video.

[nusakan]

Most of the stuff I'm converting is 640x480 so it seems I'm stretching it to be like DVD size (also effectivly reducing the quality a bit) but in my opinion that shouldn't be causing the issue since the PS3 can even take MP4s taken from stuff I converted for my PSP which is like 320x280 resolution, i think. So that's why I factored out that resolution isn't the issue.

I also looked at the framerates running at the original AVIs and they were running something like 23.976 FPS which i think is a number the PS3 doesn't take so forcing it at 29.97 seems to fix it. However, I don't know what will be the result if I were to convert a 15FPS video to 29.97 which may explain why people complain that the video runs faster than the audio (The nortorious Audio out of Sync issue) so you're essentially speeding up the video while leaving the audio in tact. For that my suggestion is to use something like VLC to see the frame rate of the video and then use PS3 video 9 and set the profile to closest to that video's setting to resolve it. It may be slightly off but as long as it is very close to the settings it may be pretty hard to tell until much closer towards the end of the movie.

[nusakan]

I should beable to test those videos tonight. I already know they work since I was sorta copying a few as they became completed.

[nusakan]

Sorry it took so long to get it done, I'm currently in a middle of moving crap at work so my dev system was offline for awhile. I can say that of the 50+ videos that were unsupported before, except for one which I haven't gone around to figuring out why, the rest are now working just by doing the framerate change.

Also besure you KNOW what the framerate of your original video is and that you don't actually "speed" up or down the video if you're going to do this

[NachoF]

Ps3 might not be able to play the 23.97fps files but why are the exact same files not playable on quicktime either??