[Kdenlive-devel] transcoding to ogg fails

[Patrick Matthäi]

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jb schrieb:
> 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.

This behaviour is confusing end users. Such options should only appear
if they may apply, or not?

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