[Q] Weird video behaviour

[Philio25]

I encoded a film the other day and started watching it on the train today, but it would only play on fast forward!

Guessing the encoding is messed up or something, anyone seen this happen before?

 

[kmaxima]

I had this happen with some of the movies I encoded. For me I finally found that the reason was oddly enough due to the audio encoding. Somehow I had accidentally changed the setting to be 5.1 instead of stereo. Unfortunately I did about 7 or 8 movies with it like that before I tried one out and realized what had happened.

 

[Philio25]

Interesting! Everything I've been encoding is 5.1, however with this particular video I increased the audio bitrate. I figured the default FFMPEG AAC setting of 64 Kbit might be a bit low for a movie, so increased it. (Previously I've just been encoding South Park episodes, which hardly require high audio bitrate).

My plan was to maintain 5.1 and convert all my mkv movies to mp4, as it not only reduces the file sizes a fair but, but also plays on Windows without any codec pack.

I guess I need to experiment with some different audio bitrates, or drop to stereo.

Thanks for the info!

 

[dased14]

good to know, as i just ordered a xoom today
and will be encoding a bunch of movies for it