Converting Stops if no Audio Source

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Converting Stops if no Audio Source

Post by thevvs » Mon Aug 01, 2011 9:40 pm

I record many FLV clips, some with and some without Audio and convert them into AVI with MC 5176 (Version uninteresting, cause it persists since I know MC).

The problem:
If MC tries to convert a FLV without Audio, it simply stops there (waiting for the Mencoder or ffmpeg process to finish, which wont - cause the process doesn´t do anything (it uses 0% CPU)) - terminating the process is the only solution - MC gives an Error 19 on the file and converts the next one.

There was a time (I don´t know which MC release it was) that using FFMPEG was a solution - it just created an error19 and jumps to the next file without stopping.
After a finished batchrun I delete the correctly converted files from the list, uncheck the "Audio enabled" box, and start conversion again - then I have the AVI files without Audio.

So my asking:
Isn´t it possible for MC to detect if theres no audio (I mean it does, but MC doesn´t use this information) and switch Audio encoding off for this file, like the Checkbox does?

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Re: Converting Stops if no Audio Source

Post by meRobs » Mon Aug 22, 2011 10:53 am

I just created an FLV file with no audio and used MediaCoder 5175 to convert it to MPEG4/AVI with Audio Enabled and it worked.
The process completed without an error!
I used the settings given in the Encoding Guide, under Tips & Guides (link below).
Have you checked out the Tips & Guides for MediaCoder? Try: http://forum.mediacoderhq.com/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=8061
Also, get older builds at: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/MediaCoder/old-versions#download

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