I’m looking for a procedure to convert MOV files from the panasonic lumix lx2 that will play back on WDTV (Gen 1, latest firmware).
By default the movies do not play on the WDTV. I’ve tried the supplied software that comes with the WDTV without successful results. The audio is simply corrupted after transcoding.
The movies are MJPEG + PCM STEREO codec. they *might* be VBR audio. In every trial, the audio is severly delayed. I’ve tried offsetting the audio in with mkvmerge and MediaCoder with no results.
The best result was converting to an AVI using the LAME audio encoder with VBR selected. The audio is still off, but not as much as other trials. The only problem is that I cannot FFwd or Rewind the AVI on WDTV.
If anyone is interested in tackling this issue, I would gladly send a movie created on the panasonic lumix lx2 for transcoding purposes.
MPEG Streamclip: video converter for Mac & Windows
MPEG Streamclip is a powerful free video converter, player, editor for Mac and Windows. It can play many movie files, not only MPEGs; it can convert MPEG files between muxed/demuxed formats for authoring; it can encode movies to many formats, including iPod; it can cut, trim and join movies.
check if smplayer is able to play the clip, if it can, mencoder should be able to convert it
Thanks! 2 quick questions…
What is smplayer and mencoder? I will google them but could you give a quick explain as to why these to applications for everyones benefit?
After searching, I’ve found very little info on converting files from this popular camera, for the WDTV. This thread might become very useful in the future!
Update!!!
MPEG Streamclip – This application seems to have work! I will try it on some of my older, larger movies, but we may have a conversion solution here!