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    Default AVI stream vs MKV stream

    Problem No1.
    I tried to convert a DivX movie from AVI to MKV.
    The movie was previously as AVI normaly streamed from my PC to TV (Panasonic G30), but when I remuxed it with MKVmerge GUI to MKV container, it was not possible to stream it to TV. I've got a message that file is not supported on TV screen. This is crazy since in both cases there are the same audio and video files (and used codecs), the difference is only file container.

    Bellow I am posting the info about the both AV files:

    AVI
    General
    CompleteName : J:\Everybody's Fine[2009]DvDrip[Eng]-FXG.avi
    Format : AVI
    Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
    FileSize/String : 700 MiB
    Duration/String : 1h 39mn
    OverallBitRate/String : 982 Kbps
    Encoded_Application : VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 (build 2540/release)
    Encoded_Library/String : VirtualDubMod build 2540/release

    Video
    ID/String : 0
    Format : MPEG-4 Visual
    Format_Profile : Advanced Simple@L5
    Format_Settings_BVOP/String : 2
    Format_Settings_QPel/String : No
    Format_Settings_GMC/String : No warppoints
    Format_Settings_Matrix/String : Default (H.263)
    MuxingMode : Packed bitstream
    CodecID : DX50
    CodecID/Hint : DivX 5
    Duration/String : 1h 39mn
    BitRate/String : 845 Kbps
    Width/String : 704 pixels
    Height/String : 288 pixels
    DisplayAspectRatio/String : 2.40:1
    FrameRate/String : 23.976 fps
    ColorSpace : YUV
    ChromaSubsampling : 4:2:0
    BitDepth/String : 8 bits
    ScanType/String : Progressive
    Compression_Mode/String : Lossy
    Bits-(Pixel*Frame) : 0.174
    StreamSize/String : 602 MiB (86%)
    Encoded_Library/String : XviD 1.0.3 (UTC 2004-12-20)

    Audio
    ID/String : 1
    Format : MPEG Audio
    Format_Version : Version 1
    Format_Profile : Layer 3
    Format_Settings_Mode : Joint stereo
    Format_Settings_ModeExtension : MS Stereo
    CodecID : 55
    CodecID/Hint : MP3
    Duration/String : 1h 39mn
    BitRate_Mode/String : Constant
    BitRate/String : 128 Kbps
    Channel(s)/String : 2 channels
    SamplingRate/String : 48.0 KHz
    Compression_Mode/String : Lossy
    StreamSize/String : 91.2 MiB (13%)
    Alignment/String : Aligned on interleaves
    Interleave_Duration/String : 42 ms (1.00 video frame)
    Interleave_Preload/String : 504 ms

    MKV
    General
    Unique ID : 208709661691110793108736231014982813238 (0x9D0404CA667C33219E42DBF8FA7D0636)
    Complete name : J:\Everybody's Fine[2009]DvDrip[Eng]-FXG.mkv
    Format : Matroska
    Format version : Version 2
    File size : 694 MiB
    Duration : 1h 39mn
    Overall bit rate : 975 Kbps
    Encoded date : UTC 2011-10-28 20:08:01
    Writing application : mkvmerge v5.0.1 ('Es ist Sommer') built on Oct 9 2011 11:55:43
    Writing library : libebml v1.2.2 + libmatroska v1.3.0

    Video
    ID : 1
    Format : MPEG-4 Visual
    Format profile : Advanced Simple@L5
    Format settings, BVOP : Yes
    Format settings, QPel : No
    Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
    Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
    Codec ID : DX50
    Codec ID/Hint : DivX 5
    Duration : 1h 39mn
    Bit rate : 827 Kbps
    Width : 704 pixels
    Height : 288 pixels
    Display aspect ratio : 2.40:1
    Frame rate : 23.976 fps
    Color space : YUV
    Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
    Bit depth : 8 bits
    Scan type : Progressive
    Compression mode : Lossy
    Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.170
    Stream size : 589 MiB (85%)
    Writing library : XviD 1.0.3 (UTC 2004-12-20)

    Audio
    ID : 2
    Format : MPEG Audio
    Format version : Version 1
    Format profile : Layer 3
    Mode : Joint stereo
    Mode extension : MS Stereo
    Muxing mode : Header stripping
    Codec ID : A_MPEG/L3
    Codec ID/Hint : MP3
    Duration : 1h 39mn
    Bit rate mode : Constant
    Bit rate : 128 Kbps
    Channel(s) : 2 channels
    Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
    Compression mode : Lossy
    Stream size : 91.2 MiB (13%)

    Text #1
    ID : 3
    Format : UTF-8
    Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
    Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text

    Text #2
    ID : 4
    Format : UTF-8
    Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
    Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text

    Problem No 2.
    I noticed that at some MKV files the subtitles are presented on TV in the way that TV does it when movie is played from local USB port (quite small font and no support for east Europen letters). On the other hand, sometimes the subtitles are shown with full support for east european letters (bigger font similar to BS player with east European letters supported).
    It seems that subtitles were transcoded in Mezmo?! I would like to force such transcoding every time since I like bigger font.

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    Can you please post the output of the "Get FFmpeg Information" command for those files? I need to see them as Mezzmo does to understand what could be going on better.

    Mezzmo does not currently transcode subtitles, but there's an option (off by default) to copy existing subtitle streams. If you can post FFmpeg information on one file which has control and one which doesn't over how subtitles are presented, perhaps I can spot what the difference is.

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    Dear Dennis, I just found out that the audio was the problematic at my "Problem No 2." I made a mistake when choosing audio profile at Vidcoder app. to be transcoded. I have chosen Surround and that was a mistake for my TV.
    I solved this by properly troanscoding audio file from 5.1 to simple stereo (AAC or AC3).

    There is still unsolved "Problem No1.
    I tried to convert a DivX movie from AVI to MKV.
    The movie was previously as AVI normaly streamed from my PC to TV (Panasonic G30), but when I remuxed it with MKVmerge GUI to MKV container, it was not possible to stream it to TV. I've got a message that file is not supported on TV screen. This is crazy since in both cases there are the same audio and video files (and used codecs), the difference is only file container."

    I have managed to stream different containers to my G30 but I have rarerly noticed a problem when remuxing HD material to.MKV (MTS, M2ts, AVCHD, BDAV, other MKV with downmixed audio etc.) As far as I can see the problem appears only when trying to put DivX / Xvid with .srt subtitle from .AVI to .MKV container.
    I will post the "Get FFmpeg Information" command in a few minutes...

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    Everybody's Fine

    AVI
    ffmpeg version N-33781-g35674a2, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
    built on Oct 19 2011 10:31:16 with gcc 4.6.1
    configuration: --enable-memalign-hack --arch=x86 --target-os=mingw32 --cross-prefix=i686-w64-mingw32- --enable-static --disable-shared --enable-zlib --disable-postproc --prefix=/media/ffmpeg --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-gpl --extra-libs='-lx264 -lpthread' --enable-runtime-cpudetect --extra-cflags=-I/home/dennis/cc/include --extra-ldflags=-L/home/dennis/cc/lib --pkg-config=pkg-config
    libavutil 51. 22. 0 / 51. 22. 0
    libavcodec 53. 21. 0 / 53. 21. 0
    libavformat 53. 16. 1 / 53. 16. 1
    libavdevice 53. 4. 0 / 53. 4. 0
    libavfilter 2. 44. 0 / 2. 44. 0
    libswscale 2. 1. 0 / 2. 1. 0
    [mpeg4 @ 01598E20] Invalid and inefficient vfw-avi packed B frames detected

    Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 23.98 (65535/2733) -> 23.98 (2997/125)
    Input #0, avi, from 'F:\Torrs\Za przenje\Everybody's Fine[2009]DvDrip[Eng]-FXG\Everybody's Fine[2009].avi':
    Metadata:
    encoder : VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 (build 2540/release)
    Duration: 01:39:34.05, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 982 kb/s
    Stream #0:0: Video: mpeg4 (Advanced Simple Profile) (DX50 / 0x30355844), yuv420p, 704x288 [SAR 1:1 DAR 22:9], 23.98 tbr, 23.98 tbn, 23.98 tbc
    Stream #0:1: Audio: mp3 (U[0][0][0] / 0x0055), 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 128 kb/s
    At least one output file must be specified


    ---> DB Level Info: 5, 15
    ---> Frame rate: 23,98
    ---> Aspect ratio: 22:9

    MKV
    ffmpeg version N-33781-g35674a2, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
    built on Oct 19 2011 10:31:16 with gcc 4.6.1
    configuration: --enable-memalign-hack --arch=x86 --target-os=mingw32 --cross-prefix=i686-w64-mingw32- --enable-static --disable-shared --enable-zlib --disable-postproc --prefix=/media/ffmpeg --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-gpl --extra-libs='-lx264 -lpthread' --enable-runtime-cpudetect --extra-cflags=-I/home/dennis/cc/include --extra-ldflags=-L/home/dennis/cc/lib --pkg-config=pkg-config
    libavutil 51. 22. 0 / 51. 22. 0
    libavcodec 53. 21. 0 / 53. 21. 0
    libavformat 53. 16. 1 / 53. 16. 1
    libavdevice 53. 4. 0 / 53. 4. 0
    libavfilter 2. 44. 0 / 2. 44. 0
    libswscale 2. 1. 0 / 2. 1. 0
    [mpeg4 @ 01479460] Invalid and inefficient vfw-avi packed B frames detected
    Input #0, matroska,webm, from 'F:\Torrs\Za przenje\Everybody's Fine[2009]DvDrip[Eng]-FXG\Everybody's Fine[2009].mkv':
    Duration: 01:39:34.05, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 974 kb/s
    Stream #0:0: Video: mpeg4 (Advanced Simple Profile) (DX50 / 0x30355844), yuv420p, 704x288 [SAR 1:1 DAR 22:9], 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 1k tbn, 23.98 tbc (default)
    Stream #0:1: Audio: mp3, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 128 kb/s (default)
    Stream #0:2: Subtitle: text (default)
    At least one output file must be specified


    ---> DB Level Info: 5, 15
    ---> Frame rate: 23,98
    ---> Aspect ratio: 22:9


    Fast and Furious 5 Fast Five (2011)
    AVI
    ffmpeg version N-33781-g35674a2, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
    built on Oct 19 2011 10:31:16 with gcc 4.6.1
    configuration: --enable-memalign-hack --arch=x86 --target-os=mingw32 --cross-prefix=i686-w64-mingw32- --enable-static --disable-shared --enable-zlib --disable-postproc --prefix=/media/ffmpeg --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-gpl --extra-libs='-lx264 -lpthread' --enable-runtime-cpudetect --extra-cflags=-I/home/dennis/cc/include --extra-ldflags=-L/home/dennis/cc/lib --pkg-config=pkg-config
    libavutil 51. 22. 0 / 51. 22. 0
    libavcodec 53. 21. 0 / 53. 21. 0
    libavformat 53. 16. 1 / 53. 16. 1
    libavdevice 53. 4. 0 / 53. 4. 0
    libavfilter 2. 44. 0 / 2. 44. 0
    libswscale 2. 1. 0 / 2. 1. 0

    Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 23.98 (65535/2733) -> 23.98 (2500000/104271)
    Input #0, avi, from 'F:\Torrs\Za przenje\Fast and Furious 5 Fast Five (2011) DVDRip XviD-MAXSPEED\Fast and Furious 5 Fast Five (2011).avi':
    Metadata:
    encoder : AVI-Mux GUI 1.17.8.3, Feb 16 201019:42:50
    title : Fast Five (2011)
    JUNK :
    Duration: 02:10:20.03, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1499 kb/s
    Stream #0:0: Video: mpeg4 (Advanced Simple Profile) (XVID / 0x44495658), yuv420p, 720x304 [SAR 1:1 DAR 45:19], 23.98 tbr, 23.98 tbn, 23.98 tbc
    Stream #0:1: Audio: ac3 ([0] [0][0] / 0x2000), 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), s16, 448 kb/s
    At least one output file must be specified


    ---> DB Level Info: 5, 15
    ---> Frame rate: 23.98
    ---> Aspect ratio: 45:19

    MKV
    ffmpeg version N-33781-g35674a2, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
    built on Oct 19 2011 10:31:16 with gcc 4.6.1
    configuration: --enable-memalign-hack --arch=x86 --target-os=mingw32 --cross-prefix=i686-w64-mingw32- --enable-static --disable-shared --enable-zlib --disable-postproc --prefix=/media/ffmpeg --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-gpl --extra-libs='-lx264 -lpthread' --enable-runtime-cpudetect --extra-cflags=-I/home/dennis/cc/include --extra-ldflags=-L/home/dennis/cc/lib --pkg-config=pkg-config
    libavutil 51. 22. 0 / 51. 22. 0
    libavcodec 53. 21. 0 / 53. 21. 0
    libavformat 53. 16. 1 / 53. 16. 1
    libavdevice 53. 4. 0 / 53. 4. 0
    libavfilter 2. 44. 0 / 2. 44. 0
    libswscale 2. 1. 0 / 2. 1. 0
    Input #0, matroska,webm, from 'F:\Torrs\Za przenje\Fast and Furious 5 Fast Five (2011) DVDRip XviD-MAXSPEED\Fast and Furious 5 Fast Five (2011).mkv':
    Duration: 02:10:20.03, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1208 kb/s
    Stream #0:0: Video: mpeg4 (Advanced Simple Profile) (XVID / 0x44495658), yuv420p, 720x304 [SAR 1:1 DAR 45:19], 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 1k tbn, 23.98 tbc (default)
    Stream #0:1: Subtitle: text (default)
    Stream #0:2: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 160 kb/s (default)
    At least one output file must be specified


    ---> DB Level Info: 5, 15
    ---> Frame rate: 23.98
    ---> Aspect ratio: 45:19
    Last edited by Forbix; 11-01-2011 at 05:37 AM.

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    Thanks for the info - they do look very similar to originals. Can you please post FFmpeg information on an MKV that works after remuxing like that?

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    Basically, every MTS, M2ts and AVCHD remuxed with MKVMergeGui was possible to stream to my Viera. There arre problems only with older DivX movies.

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