I have a number of old crusty Real Media files I need to convert and was hoping to write a script to batch process them. I'm able to do a Real Media -> AVI conversion with FFMpegX, but when I try to replicate the conversion with ffmpeg, it always errors out with something like:
[avi @ 0x10084fa00] Too large number of skipped frames 117425 > 60000
It may have something to do with the funky format of these Real Media files:
Duration: 01:28:23.42, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 448 kb/s
Stream #0:0: Data: none, 32 kb/s
Stream #0:1: Data: none, 192 kb/s
Stream #0:2: Audio: sipr (sipr / 0x72706973), 8000 Hz, mono, flt, 6 kb/s
Stream #0:3: Video: rv20 (RV20 / 0x30325652), yuv420p, 320x240, 13 kb/s, 15 fps, 15 tbr, 1k tbn, 1k tbc
Stream #0:4: Video: rv20 (RV20 / 0x30325652), yuv420p, 320x240, 8 kb/s, 15 fps, 15 tbr, 1k tbn, 1k tbc
Stream #0:5: Video: rv20 (RV20 / 0x30325652), yuv420p, 320x240, 5 kb/s, 15 fps, 15 tbr, 1k tbn, 1k tbc
Stream #0:6: Video: rv20 (RV20 / 0x30325652), yuv420p, 320x240, 27 kb/s, 15 fps, 15 tbr, 1k tbn, 1k tbc
Stream #0:7: Audio: cook (cook / 0x6B6F6F63), 22050 Hz, mono, fltp, 32 kb/s
Stream #0:8: Video: rv20 (RV20 / 0x30325652), yuv420p, 320x240, 192 kb/s, 30 fps, 30 tbr, 1k tbn, 1k tbc
Stream #0:9: Video: rv20 (RV20 / 0x30325652), yuv420p, 320x240, 136 kb/s, 30 fps, 30 tbr, 1k tbn, 1k tbc
Stream #0:10: Audio: sipr (sipr / 0x72706973), 8000 Hz, mono, flt, 6 kb/s
Stream #0:11: Audio: sipr (sipr / 0x72706973), 8000 Hz, mono, flt, 6 kb/s
Stream #0:12: Video: rv20 (RV20 / 0x30325652), yuv420p, 320x240, 13 kb/s, 15 fps, 15 tbr, 1k tbn, 1k tbc
Stream #0:13: Video: rv20 (RV20 / 0x30325652), yuv420p, 320x240, 13 kb/s, 15 fps, 15 tbr, 1k tbn, 1k tbc
Stream #0:14: Video: rv20 (RV20 / 0x30325652), yuv420p, 320x240, 13 kb/s, 15 fps, 15 tbr, 1k tbn, 1k tbc
Stream #0:15: Video: rv20 (RV20 / 0x30325652), yuv420p, 320x240, 5 kb/s, 15 fps, 15 tbr, 1k tbn, 1k tbc
Does anyone have any tips on either how to find out what FFMpegX is doing to make the conversion work, or a better way to go about using ffmpeg to do this?
EDIT
Including the ffmpeg command (thank you to @Mondain for teaching me about the stream mapping!) and output:
Command:
ffmpeg -i cc121307pm.rm -map 0:8 -map 0:7 -c:v libx264 -c:a libfaac -b:a 32k test.avi
Output:
ffmpeg version 1.2.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers
built on Aug 7 2013 12:29:30 with gcc 4.2.1 (GCC) (Apple Inc. build 5664)
configuration: --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/1.2.1 --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-nonfree --enable-hardcoded-tables --enable-avresample --enable-vda --cc=/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 --host-cflags='-Os -w -pipe -march=core2 -msse4.1 -mmacosx-version-min=10.6' --host-ldflags=-L/usr/local/lib --enable-libx264 --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libxvid
libavutil 52. 18.100 / 52. 18.100
libavcodec 54. 92.100 / 54. 92.100
libavformat 54. 63.104 / 54. 63.104
libavdevice 54. 3.103 / 54. 3.103
libavfilter 3. 42.103 / 3. 42.103
libswscale 2. 2.100 / 2. 2.100
libswresample 0. 17.102 / 0. 17.102
libpostproc 52. 2.100 / 52. 2.100
[rm @ 0x10180f200] Unsupported stream type 00000265
[rm @ 0x10180f200] Unsupported stream type 00000652
[rm @ 0x10180f200] max_analyze_duration 5000000 reached at 5004000 microseconds
Input #0, rm, from 'input.rm':
Metadata:
File ID : 41deac0f-94fb-3595-325c-c717943bc532
Content Rating : (PICS-1.1 "http://www.classify.org/safesurf" labels comment "RealProducer Plus 8.5.0.200 Windows" ratings (SS~~000 1))
Modification Date: 12/13/2007 16:26:16
Generated By : RealProducer Plus 8.5.0.200 Windows
Keywords :
Abstract :
Target Audiences: 28K Modem (20 Kbps);56K Modem (34 Kbps);256K DSL/Cable Modem (225 Kbps);
Video Quality : Normal Motion Video
Audio Format : Voice Only
Creation Date : 12/13/2007 14:57:49
ASMRuleBook : #($Bandwidth < 15000),Stream2Bandwidth = 6500, Stream3Bandwidth = 5499;#($Bandwidth >= 15000) && ($Bandwidth < 20000),Stream2Ba
title :
author :
copyright : ?2007
comment :
Duration: 01:28:23.42, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 448 kb/s
Stream #0:0: Data: none, 32 kb/s
Stream #0:1: Data: none, 192 kb/s
Stream #0:2: Audio: sipr (sipr / 0x72706973), 8000 Hz, mono, flt, 6 kb/s
Stream #0:3: Video: rv20 (RV20 / 0x30325652), yuv420p, 320x240, 13 kb/s, 15 fps, 15 tbr, 1k tbn, 1k tbc
Stream #0:4: Video: rv20 (RV20 / 0x30325652), yuv420p, 320x240, 8 kb/s, 15 fps, 15 tbr, 1k tbn, 1k tbc
Stream #0:5: Video: rv20 (RV20 / 0x30325652), yuv420p, 320x240, 5 kb/s, 15 fps, 15 tbr, 1k tbn, 1k tbc
Stream #0:6: Video: rv20 (RV20 / 0x30325652), yuv420p, 320x240, 27 kb/s, 15 fps, 15 tbr, 1k tbn, 1k tbc
Stream #0:7: Audio: cook (cook / 0x6B6F6F63), 22050 Hz, mono, fltp, 32 kb/s
Stream #0:8: Video: rv20 (RV20 / 0x30325652), yuv420p, 320x240, 192 kb/s, 30 fps, 30 tbr, 1k tbn, 1k tbc
Stream #0:9: Video: rv20 (RV20 / 0x30325652), yuv420p, 320x240, 136 kb/s, 30 fps, 30 tbr, 1k tbn, 1k tbc
Stream #0:10: Audio: sipr (sipr / 0x72706973), 8000 Hz, mono, flt, 6 kb/s
Stream #0:11: Audio: sipr (sipr / 0x72706973), 8000 Hz, mono, flt, 6 kb/s
Stream #0:12: Video: rv20 (RV20 / 0x30325652), yuv420p, 320x240, 13 kb/s, 15 fps, 15 tbr, 1k tbn, 1k tbc
Stream #0:13: Video: rv20 (RV20 / 0x30325652), yuv420p, 320x240, 13 kb/s, 15 fps, 15 tbr, 1k tbn, 1k tbc
Stream #0:14: Video: rv20 (RV20 / 0x30325652), yuv420p, 320x240, 13 kb/s, 15 fps, 15 tbr, 1k tbn, 1k tbc
Stream #0:15: Video: rv20 (RV20 / 0x30325652), yuv420p, 320x240, 5 kb/s, 15 fps, 15 tbr, 1k tbn, 1k tbc
[libx264 @ 0x101889c00] using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 FastShuffle SSE4.1 Cache64
[libx264 @ 0x101889c00] profile High, level 1.3
Output #0, avi, to 'test.avi':
Metadata:
File ID : 41deac0f-94fb-3595-325c-c717943bc532
Content Rating : (PICS-1.1 "http://www.classify.org/safesurf" labels comment "RealProducer Plus 8.5.0.200 Windows" ratings (SS~~000 1))
Modification Date: 12/13/2007 16:26:16
Generated By : RealProducer Plus 8.5.0.200 Windows
Keywords :
Abstract :
Target Audiences: 28K Modem (20 Kbps);56K Modem (34 Kbps);256K DSL/Cable Modem (225 Kbps);
Video Quality : Normal Motion Video
Audio Format : Voice Only
Creation Date : 12/13/2007 14:57:49
ASMRuleBook : #($Bandwidth < 15000),Stream2Bandwidth = 6500, Stream3Bandwidth = 5499;#($Bandwidth >= 15000) && ($Bandwidth < 20000),Stream2Ba
INAM :
author :
ICOP : ?2007
ICMT :
ISFT : Lavf54.63.104
Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (H264 / 0x34363248), yuv420p, 320x240, q=-1--1, 30 tbn, 30 tbc
Stream #0:1: Audio: aac ([255][0][0][0] / 0x00FF), 22050 Hz, mono, s16, 32 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0:8 -> #0:0 (rv20 -> libx264)
Stream #0:7 -> #0:1 (cook -> libfaac)
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
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input.rm: Input/output error
frame= 0 fps=0.0 q=0.0 Lsize= 10kB time=00:00:00.00 bitrate=N/A
video:0kB audio:0kB subtitle:0 global headers:0kB muxing overhead inf%
Output file is empty, nothing was encoded (check -ss / -t / -frames parameters if used)