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 Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2014 11:46 pm Post subject: How do I check a video file audio track is what it pretends? |
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Hi.
I have a video file which is supposed to deliver 6 CHannels but mplayer desperately plays it in stereo only. Any attempt at forcing 6 channels results in mplayer pooping with an error message about “unsupported sample type”.
| mplayer -ao alsa:device=spdif -afm hwac3, -channels 6 -af channels=6,lavcac3enc=1:640:3 file.mp4: | ...
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 6 ch, floatle, 149.6 kbit/1.62% (ratio: 18697->1152000)
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[ac3_fixed @ 0x7faffcde3b80]Specified sample format s16 is invalid or not supported
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| mplayer -af scaletempo,format=ac3le,channels=6,lavcac3enc=1:448:3 file.mp4: | ...
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 6 ch, floatle, 149.6 kbit/1.62% (ratio: 18697->1152000)
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[format] Sample format little-endian AC3 not yet supported
[libaf] Reinitialization did not work, audio filter 'format' returned error code -2
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But this plays stereo
| mplayer -af format=s32le,channels=6 file.mp4: | ...
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 6 ch, floatle, 149.6 kbit/1.62% (ratio: 18697->1152000)
Codec audio sélectionné : [ffaac] afm : ffmpeg (FFmpeg AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio))
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AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s32le (4 bytes per sample)
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| midentify file.mp4 | grep AUDIO: | ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=MP4A
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=149576
ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=6
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=149576
ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=6
ID_AUDIO_CODEC=ffaac |
FTR I have a DTS compatible amp' and am using my PC's SPDIF output. I have many video files which play successfully in DTS and AC3.
So I basically want to make sure the audio track is indeed what it pretends to be, eventually eliminating bad encoding. And since I know mplayer can reencode audio on the fly, is there a way to convert the audio format to one that qould be accepted by my amplifier through the SPDIF channel?
[I tried Paul Bredbury's .asoundrc but it didn't work. No idea if it's sufficient to save the file as is though.]
Thanks in advance for any hint or suggestion.
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| Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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Hi man! this may be a shot in the dark but...
have you tried any other video file with multichannel audio?
Also, what does ffmpeg -i <your file> say?
mplayer is notorious for giving wrong information when identifying stuff, at least for me...
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| Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2014 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Wintershade, thanks. Didn't mention it but, yes, I did give ffmpeg a try (or of some sort like ffplay) and it did play stereo only -- I can see from the LEDs on my amp' when it switches to surround mode, it didn't. I'm still puzzled because I think I compiled mplayer with ffmpeg backend so both might want to give the very same results.
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| Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2014 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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Please post the output of ffmpeg -i <your file>.
Also...
| Quote: | | I think I compiled mplayer with ffmpeg backend |
what exactly do you mean by this? I've just checked the USE flags for mplayer (both amd64 and ~amd64) and I haven't seen ffmpeg in that list...
what does emerge --info mplayer say?
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| Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2014 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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| VinzC wrote: | | How do I check a video file audio track is what it pretends? |
Have you tried using MediaInfo?
| Code: | $ mediainfo -f ~/Videos/avatar2009aug0820a-tsr_h1080p.mov | sed -n '/Audio$/,/Other/p'
Audio
Count : 222
Count of stream of this kind : 1
Kind of stream : Audio
Kind of stream : Audio
Stream identifier : 0
StreamOrder : 1
ID : 2
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Commercial name : AAC
Format profile : LC
Codec ID : 40
Codec : AAC LC
Codec : AAC LC
Codec/Family : AAC
Codec/CC : 40
Duration : 129171
Duration : 2mn 9s
Duration : 2mn 9s 171ms
Duration : 2mn 9s
Duration : 00:02:09.171
Source duration : 129173
Source duration : 2mn 9s
Source duration : 2mn 9s 173ms
Source duration : 2mn 9s
Source duration : 00:02:09.173
Bit rate mode : CBR
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 448000
Bit rate : 448 Kbps
Channel count : 6
Channel count : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Channel positions : 3/2/0.1
ChannelLayout : C L R Ls Rs LFE
Sampling rate : 48000
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Samples count : 6200208
Frame count : 6055
Source frame count : 6055
Compression mode : Lossy
Compression mode : Lossy
Delay : 3597417
Delay : 59mn 57s
Delay : 59mn 57s 417ms
Delay : 59mn 57s
Delay : 00:59:57.417
Delay_DropFrame : No
Delay, origin : Container
Delay, origin : Container
Delay relative to video : 0
Video0 delay : 0
Stream size : 7501687
Stream size : 7.15 MiB (4%)
Stream size : 7 MiB
Stream size : 7.2 MiB
Stream size : 7.15 MiB
Stream size : 7.154 MiB
Stream size : 7.15 MiB (4%)
Proportion of this stream : 0.04309
Source stream size : 7501687
Source stream size : 7.15 MiB (4%)
Source stream size : 7 MiB
Source stream size : 7.2 MiB
Source stream size : 7.15 MiB
Source stream size : 7.154 MiB
Source stream size : 7.15 MiB (4%)
Source_StreamSize_Proportion : 0.04309
Language : en
Language : English
Language : English
Language : en
Language : eng
Language : en
Encoded date : UTC 2009-08-18 16:44:12
Tagged date : UTC 2009-08-20 13:39:59
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| Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 12:29 am Post subject: |
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+1 to that, Mediainfo rocks. I somehow always forget about it, probably cos I'm used to ffmpeg.
Again, it would be useful to know whether it's just this file that has issues with mplayer, or every file that has multichannel audio. Have you tried playing anything else? Were the results same, or...?
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| Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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I didn't even know of mediainfo  . Here's what it tells about the audio part:
| mediainfo: | Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : LC
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 1h 30mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 150 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 167 Kbps
Channel count : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 97.3 MiB (5%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2014-01-09 07:11:42
Tagged date : UTC 2014-01-10 01:18:42 |
So it really looks like there's something going wrong somewhere. Melikes to know what could, possibly  .
| Wintershade wrote: | | Have you tried playing anything else? Were the results same, or...? |
Oh, yes, I did. I tried mplayer2, vlc; same thing. As for «playing something else», as in «other video files with surround audio», yes I did. And it's not the first surround experience in fact. I have quite a few other files that play surround sound and my amp switches appropriately.
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| VinzC wrote: | | As for «playing something else», as in «other video files with surround audio», yes I did. And it's not the first surround experience in fact. I have quite a few other files that play surround sound and my amp switches appropriately. |
So if I understand this correctly, on other files, surround sound plays as it should?
If that's the case, then your video file is the problem. I've had quite a few bad experiences with poorly encoded video (and audio) files.
This thread on ffmpeg.org might give you a bit of info and ideas where to search next. FFmpeg documentation can also provide you with bits of insight on how to map your audio channels properly, now that you have the information from mediainfo.
Also, try this...
| Code: | | ffmpeg -i <your file> -acodec copy -vcodec copy <new file>.mkv |
Be sure to convert it to .mkv. It's arguably the best container for modern video. Even if your video already is in .mkv, try it.
What this command will do, essentially, is repack your video and audio into another file, and put it in the .mkv container. It won't transcode anything (hence the copy in the line - it's literally a direct stream copy), so don't worry about any quality loss. You'll probably have to do this in any case, especially if you'll have to remap audio channels, as mentioned above.
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| Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 4:21 am Post subject: |
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| Wintershade wrote: |
Also, try this...
| Code: | | ffmpeg -i <your file> -acodec copy -vcodec copy <new file>.mkv |
Be sure to convert it to .mkv. It's arguably the best container for modern video. Even if your video already is in .mkv, try it.
What this command will do, essentially, is repack your video and audio into another file, and put it in the .mkv container. It won't transcode anything (hence the copy in the line - it's literally a direct stream copy), so don't worry about any quality loss. You'll probably have to do this in any case, especially if you'll have to remap audio channels, as mentioned above. |
Or just use mkvtoolnix:
| Code: | | mkvmerge -o file.mkv file.mp4 |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks again guys. I converted the video container to Matroska but unfortunately nothing has changed  . Here's what I get when I play the file, be it (no matter before or after converting this said):
| Code: | ...
Selected audio codec: AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) [libavcodec]
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 6 ch, floatle, 128.0 kbit/1.39% (ratio: 16000->1152000)
[AO_ALSA] Format floatle is not supported by hardware, trying default.
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback... |
My amp still plays stereo sound although the MKV file is detected as 6CH:
| midentify: | ID_VIDEO_ID=0
ID_AUDIO_ID=0
ID_AID_0_LANG=eng
ID_CLIP_INFO_NAME0=MAJOR_BRAND
ID_CLIP_INFO_VALUE0=isom
ID_CLIP_INFO_NAME1=MINOR_VERSION
ID_CLIP_INFO_VALUE1=1
ID_CLIP_INFO_NAME2=COMPATIBLE_BRANDS
ID_CLIP_INFO_VALUE2=isomavc1
ID_CLIP_INFO_NAME3=ENCODER
ID_CLIP_INFO_VALUE3=Lavf54.63.104
ID_CLIP_INFO_N=4
ID_FILENAME=/tmp/file.mkv
ID_DEMUXER=lavfpref
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=H264
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=0
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=1888
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=784
ID_VIDEO_FPS=23.976
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=2.4082
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=MP4A
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=0
ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=6
ID_START_TIME=0.00
ID_LENGTH=5456.70
ID_SEEKABLE=1
ID_CHAPTERS=0
ID_VIDEO_CODEC=ffh264
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=0
ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=6
ID_AUDIO_CODEC=ffaac |
And with mediainfo
| Code: | Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : LC
Codec ID : A_AAC
Duration : 1h 30mn
Channel count : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Delay relative to video : 1mn 5s
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Encoded date : UTC 2014-01-09 07:11:42
HANDLER_NAME : Sound Media Handler |
Is there something my amplifier is responsible for? (It's a rather "old" amp by the way, a Denon AVR1800.)
EDIT: Trusting mplayer's ability to downsample in realtime I ran mplayer -af s16le <my video file>, still playing in stereo. Losing my religion on this one!
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| Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2014 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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You can check to see if that six channels are different. I think this will produce six files with the six different channels: | Code: | | for x in {0..5} ; do ffmpeg -i <your file> -map 0:a -map_channel 0.1.$x -acodec mp3 out-$x.mp3; done |
assuming your file has audio on stream 1. (see the output of ffprobe) |
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| Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2014 10:56 am Post subject: |
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Thanks a lot Nicias. Indeed they're all different, kind of feels relieving . Now it looks like it all boils down to telling mplayer to convert "floatle" samples to something like "s16le" or "s32le" on-the-fly, right?
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| Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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Hey, know what? I upgraded media-libs/x264, recompiled ffmpeg and mplayer2 and now — tadaaaaa — it works and I get surround sound:
| mplayer2 -channels 6 -af scaletempo,lavcac3enc=1:640:3 file.mp4: | ...
Selected audio codec: AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) [libavcodec]
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 6 ch, floatle, 149.6 kbit/1.62% (ratio: 18697->1152000)
[ac3 @ 0x7effd3faeb80]Channel layout not specified
[ac3 @ 0x7effd3faeb80]No channel layout specified. The encoder will guess the layout, but it might be incorrect.
[AO_ALSA] Format ac3be is not supported by hardware, trying default.
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch ac3le (2 bytes per sample)
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At least now I have surround sound despite the possibly "incorrect" guessing. Note: these settings still do not work with mplayer.
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