[Kdenlive-devel] transcoding to ogg fails

[jb]

On Sunday 03 January 2010 18:49:13 Patrick Matthäi wrote:

> I tried out the transcoding feature and it fails.
> This is my input avi file:
> 
> RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 512 x 288, 25.00 fps, video: XviD,
> audio: MPEG-1 Layer 3 (stereo, 48000 Hz)
> 
> I choosed "Fix OGG Theora" as output:
> -sameq -vcodec libtheora -acodec copy %1.ogv
> 
> But it directly fails with:
> Could not write header for output file #0 (incorrect codec parameters ?)
> Transkodieren fehlgeschlagen!
> 
> The last line means: Transcoding fails.

That seems like a normal behaviour. The "Fix OGG Theora" transcoding profile is 
provided to fix an issue with some ogg theora files (audio sync or something 
like that, I don't remember exactly, it was provided by Dan Dennedy).

This transcoding profile should only be used on OGG Theora files, which is why 
it fails with your xvid file...

More generally, the transcoding profiles called "Fix xxx" only apply to the 
files already in format xxx.

regards
jb