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hi there ive been using ffmulticonverter to redo some videos so i can watch them on the tv , but they so blocky / pixelated that they are not worth watching . and the source videos are high quality. so im wondering if there is a better converter or some way of redoing them so they are watchable?

What audio/video format are the source videos? And why do you need to convert them, most newer TV's will play anything up to 1080p directly ...
Also, which settings did you use for ffmulticonverter (to which format did you convert) ?

The easiest is probably to use VLC to convert your videos, no need for some external converter.
another aternative would be TraGtor: http://mein-neues-blog.de/tragtor-gui-for-ffmpeg/

doktor5000 wrote:What audio/video format are the source videos? And why do you need to convert them, most newer TV's will play anything up to 1080p directly ...
Also, which settings did you use for ffmulticonverter (to which format did you convert) ?

The easiest is probably to use VLC to convert your videos, no need for some external converter.
another aternative would be TraGtor: http://mein-neues-blog.de/tragtor-gui-for-ffmpeg/

hi there various format avi,mpg4,mkv ... i need to play them thru my LG dvd player i dont think my my new lg 42ln5300 tv plays file directly and i need to convert to a format my dvd will play. ive converted to several formats and they all come out the same very blocky/pixelated.

ill try vlc see how that works thanks

Copy the original videos to an usb flash drive or an external harddisk, and connect it to the TV. Should work,
unfortunately all LG pages to look up the spec are currently not working, so cannot confirm.

doktor5000 wrote:Copy the original videos to an usb flash drive or an external harddisk, and connect it to the TV. Should work,
unfortunately all LG pages to look up the spec are currently not working, so cannot confirm.

tv doesnt play videos directly . i need to go thru dvd player.

Well, the specifications mention at least Divx (which should also include xvid):

http://www.lg.com/us/tvs/lg-42LN5300-led-tv/technical-specifications wrote:
CONNECTIVITY

USB Playback DivX HD®, JPEG, JPG, MPO, AC3 (Dolby® Digital), EAC3, HAAC, AAC, MPEG, MP3, PCM, DTS®

geraldw321 wrote:

doktor5000 wrote:What audio/video format are the source videos? And why do you need to convert them, most newer TV's will play anything up to 1080p directly ...
Also, which settings did you use for ffmulticonverter (to which format did you convert) ?

The easiest is probably to use VLC to convert your videos, no need for some external converter.
another aternative would be TraGtor: http://mein-neues-blog.de/tragtor-gui-for-ffmpeg/

hi there various format avi,mpg4,mkv ... i need to play them thru my LG dvd player i dont think my my new lg 42ln5300 tv plays file directly and i need to convert to a format my dvd will play. ive converted to several formats and they all come out the same very blocky/pixelated.

ill try vlc see how that works thanks

You have to convert these movie files to mpeg2 format that's the dvd standard.
The only thing I can tell you is to export it as an MPG , and then go to an outside burner program (I use AppGeeker DVD Creator for that). Then just burn it from there.
E.g. How to burn MP4 to DVD for home DVD player
Try it out and at least you will be able to see exactly what the converted files should look like.

I use mencoder for exactly this.

its a bit of a esoteric command line, but there are many exampled to be found on a trawl of google, the thing with mencoder is it can do anything, like crop, rescale, resize, reprocess.

for example



ffmpeg is also similar but simpler.

for example

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ffmpeg -i BBB.mp4 -vcodec mpeg2video -b 4000000 -s 1920x1080 -acodec copy -f mpegts BBB.ts

it can also use all the cores on your CPU, and for example, had to convert a full HD the other day because it was broken, mencoder was running at 100 frames per second.

I can post some examples of its use later if you need them.

regards peter

FWIW, vlc also offers command line, plus you can configure the conversion easily via the GUI, and get the command line out of it for batch processing

geraldw321 wrote:hi there ive been using ffmulticonverter to redo some videos so i can watch them on the tv , but they so blocky / pixelated that they are not worth watching . and the source videos are high quality. so im wondering if there is a better converter or some way of redoing them so they are watchable?

you can try to convert video to video format which your tv support to play,such as converting avi to mp4.

See some of the former replies, OP says it doesn't work - which I still can't believe. I'd exchange that TV against one which has some standard features or supports watching streams from your PC/media server.

this is the script i put together for upscaling and reprocessing the output from my DVB satilite card.

i run this in a directory called inbox and append ../outbox to the command to specify the destination directory for all the processed videos.

it just loops through them all till they are all done.

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cat /home/bin/recode
CWD=`pwd`
if [ "${1}X" != "${CWD}X" ];then
ls -A1|while read A; do B=`echo "${A}"|sed 's/.mpg/.avi/'`;mencoder "${A}"  -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:threads=8:vbitrate=6000 -oac mp3lame -vf scale=720:576,harddup -o ${1}/"${B}"; done
else
echo "Usage: recode destination-directory (cant be current dir)"
fi


regards peter