VC-1 CODEC ?

[tdtran1025]

Since HB is the last step of the process of digitization, I would like to ask if there's a chance of support for vc-1 codec in the future. Maybe I should clarify. I just bought a box set of BBC Life Series Oprah version and HB can't seem to handle the video codec.
Not that I have any sympathy for BBC going this route but I am stuck with what I bought. I just want to be able to transcode it.
Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated.

[mduell]

AFAIK VC1 is ok, it's just interlaced VC1 that's unsupported. Have you tried encoding it or did you give up when you say VC1?

MS Expression Encoder (free) might support it.

[nightstrm]

I'm pretty sure the BBC series is 1080i vc1, which as mduell said currently is not supported by ffmpeg.

[tdtran1025]

Thank you gentlemen for pointing that out. Had I known that before hand, I would have bought the 2009 version with D. Attenborough which is encoded with mpeg2, and it's cheaper. This is a deliberate attempt on BBC to give MS an upper hand with their proprietary codec.

[jbellanca]

You are correct, it's 1080i VC-1, which is not supported. Hopefully they'll be able to add it in the future. Does anyone know of any other tools that may work?

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[20:45:11] dvd: not a dvd - trying as a stream/file instead
[vc1 @ 0x10208ca00]Interlaced frames/fields support is not implemented
Input #0, matroska, from '/Volumes/Media/Life_Disc_1/title00.mkv':
  Duration: 00:42:46.53, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
    Chapter #0.0: start 0.000000, end 285.718756
    Metadata:
      title           : Chapter 00
    Chapter #0.1: start 285.718756, end 811.710889
    Metadata:
      title           : Chapter 01
    Chapter #0.2: start 811.710889, end 1137.870067
    Metadata:
      title           : Chapter 02
    Chapter #0.3: start 1137.870067, end 1560.859289
    Metadata:
      title           : Chapter 03
    Chapter #0.4: start 1560.859289, end 1937.735800
    Metadata:
      title           : Chapter 04
    Chapter #0.5: start 1937.735800, end 2566.530000
    Metadata:
      title           : Chapter 05
    Stream #0.0(eng): Video: vc1, yuv420p, 1920x1080 [PAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 30.30 fps, 29.97 tbr, 1k tbn, 29.97 tbc
    Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: dca, 48000 Hz, 6 channels, s16
    Metadata:
      title           : 3/2+1
    Stream #0.2(eng): Subtitle: pgssub
[20:45:11] Channels reported by ffmpeg (6) != computed layout channels (2).
[20:45:11] add_ffmpeg_subtitle: unknown subtitle stream type: 0x17006
[20:45:11] scan: decoding previews for title 1
[20:45:11] scan: audio 0x1: DCA, rate=48000Hz, bitrate=1536000 English (DTS) (5.1 ch)
[vc1 @ 0x10208ca00]Interlaced frames/fields support is not implemented
[20:45:13] scan: could not get a decoded picture