. Well, this time it's a "black screen" I get. Sorry, I have no handbrake log. And sorry if this post is a bit long. Oh yea, and sorry if the whole xbox 360 thing gets a bit tedious for some. Anyway, I posted THIS up at xboscene. It was in response to another guy who has the black screen problem on some of his vids. Here goes.------------
I use Handbrake to encode to h264 (xbox or ps3 preset), and I also get SOME videos that produce the "black screen". I don't get audio, though. Strange, indeed. I'm trying to figure this out, as well. Maybe it's that damn mp4box? I swear I have more trouble using mp4box when it comes to muxing audio and video streams. So now I use mp4creator, and I have (so far) 100% success when trying to fix videos that the 360 refuses to play (these particular videos are of a different problematic nature, but still related to muxing.). Right now, I'm testing those "black screen" videos with mp4creator to see if I have any luck. I'll report back if I have any success. In the meantime, if anyone could shed any light on the problem here...... I'm using dvd+r discs and usb drives.
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mp4creator was a no go on the black screen videos. Also, (I know I'm an idiot for not testing the video before) the same video(s) doesn't play back with Media Player Classic. The same black screen with no audio. It "seems" to freeze. Doesn't want to start playing. It plays fine with VLC, though. But then again...VLC plays just about everything. So...could this be just a plain ol' bad video encode? Is it spiking? What is "spiking", anyway? I'm lost. Some of this technical stuff is simply above my head and below my knees. It's fun trying to track down the problem, but it's also a pain. I want to know why?!....for future encodes. Anyway, below is an AVINAPTIC report on the original Handbrake encode. Also, I DID use yamb to combine a movie that was split onto 2 dvds. Maybe yamb is the culprit? It's Lord of the Rings part 3. Maybe someone can shed some light on all this? The avinaptic report:
[ Info sul file ]
Nome: 3_The Return of the King.mp4
Data: 21/01/2008 18:30:30
Dimensione: 2,206,410,831 bytes (2104.197 MB)
[ Info generiche ]
Durata: 04:12:30 (15149.738333 s)
Tipo di contenitore: MP4/MOV
Major brand: ISO Base Media version 1
Data creazione: 21/01/2008 00:07:40 UTC
Data modifica: 21/01/2008 00:07:40 UTC
Streams totali: 2
Tipo stream n. 1: video (avc1)
Tipo stream n. 2: audio (AAC Low complexity) {GPAC ISO Audio Handler}
Audio streams: 1
[ Dati rilevanti ]
Risoluzione: 720 x 358
Larghezza: multipla di 16
Altezza: multipla di 2
[ Traccia video ]
Codec: avc1
Risoluzione: 720 x 358
Frame aspect ratio: 360:179 = 2.011173
Pixel aspect ratio: 1:1 = 1
Display aspect ratio: 360:179 = 2.011173
Framerate: 23.976024 fps
Frames totali: 363235
Bitrate: 1000.048165 kbps
[ Traccia audio ]
Codec: AAC Low complexity
Bitrate: 159.954443 kbps
Canali: 2
Frequenza: 48000 Hz
[ Info sulla codifica H.264 ]
User data: x264
User data: core 56 svn-665M
User data: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC codec
User data: Copyleft 2005
User data: http://www.videolan.org/x264.html
User data: cabac=1
User data: ref=2
User data: deblock=1:-2:-1
User data: analyse=0x3:0x133
User data: me=umh
User data: subme=6
User data: brdo=1
User data: mixed_ref=1
User data: me_range=16
User data: chroma_me=1
User data: trellis=1
User data: 8x8dct=1
User data: cqm=0
User data: deadzone=21,11
User data: chroma_qp_offset=0
User data: threads=3
User data: nr=0
User data: decimate=1
User data: mbaff=0
User data: bframes=2
User data: b_pyramid=1
User data: b_adapt=1
User data: b_bias=0
User data: direct=3
User data: wpredb=1
User data: bime=1
User data: keyint=479
User data: keyint_min=25
User data: scenecut=40(pre)
User data: rc=2pass
User data: bitrate=1000
User data: ratetol=1.0
User data: rceq='blurCplx^(1-qComp)'
User data: qcomp=0.60
User data: qpmin=10
User data: qpmax=51
User data: qpstep=4
User data: cplxblur=20.0
User data: qblur=0.5
User data: ip_ratio=1.40
User data: pb_ratio=1.30
User data: aq=1:0.5:5.0
SPS id: 0
Profile: High@L4
Num ref frames: 5
Aspect ratio: Custom pixel shape (32:27 = 1.185185)
Chroma format idc: YUV 4:2:0
PPS id: 0 (SPS: 0)
Codifica entropica: CABAC
Weighted prediction: No
Weighted bipred idc: B slices - implicit weighted prediction
8x8dct: Sì
[ Profile compliancy ]
Profilo da testare: MTK PAL 6000
Risoluzione: Ok
Framerate: 23.976024 <> 25
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Rapporto generato da AVInaptic (18-11-2007) in data 3 mar 2008, h 23:12:47
