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    <p>What i am trying to do is convert video into mp4 format that will play in Android.</p> <p>I've gone through <a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html">http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html</a></p> <p>I am setting the following options</p> <p>-vcodec libx264 -vprofile baseline -acodec libfaac -ar 44100 -ac 1 -ab 128k yet I get the error message "Sorry, This Video is not valid for streaming to this device"</p> <p>I Played the video in android browser using videoJS <a href="http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.mp4">http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.mp4</a> and it WORKS fine.</p> <p>I download the video oceans-clip.mp4 and tried to convert using minimalist options </p> <p>-y -i working.mp4 -vprofile baseline pleasework.mp4</p> <p>yet I get the same error message.</p> <p>The following is the FFMPEG info dump of the video files</p> <p><strong>Working.mp4</strong></p> <pre><code>Array ( [0] =&gt; ffmpeg version N-40229-g24e3f44-syslint Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the FFmpeg developers [1] =&gt; built on Apr 29 2012 22:01:41 with gcc 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-52) [2] =&gt; configuration: --prefix=/usr/local/cpffmpeg --enable-shared --enable-nonfree --enable-gpl --enable-pthreads --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-decoder=liba52 --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --extra-cflags=-I/usr/local/cpffmpeg/include/ --extra-ldflags=-L/usr/local/cpffmpeg/lib --enable-version3 --extra-version=syslint [3] =&gt; libavutil 51. 48.100 / 51. 48.100 [4] =&gt; libavcodec 54. 17.101 / 54. 17.101 [5] =&gt; libavformat 54. 3.100 / 54. 3.100 [6] =&gt; libavdevice 53. 4.100 / 53. 4.100 [7] =&gt; libavfilter 2. 72.100 / 2. 72.100 [8] =&gt; libswscale 2. 1.100 / 2. 1.100 [9] =&gt; libswresample 0. 11.100 / 0. 11.100 [10] =&gt; libpostproc 52. 0.100 / 52. 0.100 [11] =&gt; Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'working.mp4': [12] =&gt; Metadata: [13] =&gt; major_brand : isom [14] =&gt; minor_version : 1 [15] =&gt; compatible_brands: isomavc1 [16] =&gt; creation_time : 2010-05-18 04:24:00 [17] =&gt; Duration: 00:00:46.54, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 3342 kb/s [18] =&gt; Stream #0:0(und): Video: h264 (Constrained Baseline) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p, 640x264 [SAR 132:133 DAR 320:133], 3195 kb/s, SAR 127:128 DAR 635:264, 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 24k tbn, 47.95 tbc [19] =&gt; Metadata: [20] =&gt; creation_time : 2010-05-18 04:24:00 [21] =&gt; handler_name : GPAC ISO Video Handler [22] =&gt; Stream #0:1(und): Audio: aac (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 44100 Hz, stereo, s16, 144 kb/s [23] =&gt; Metadata: [24] =&gt; creation_time : 2010-05-18 04:24:01 [25] =&gt; handler_name : GPAC ISO Audio Handler [26] =&gt; At least one output file must be specified ) </code></pre> <p><strong>Not Working.mp4</strong></p> <pre><code>Array ( [0] =&gt; ffmpeg version N-40229-g24e3f44-syslint Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the FFmpeg developers [1] =&gt; built on Apr 29 2012 22:01:41 with gcc 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-52) [2] =&gt; configuration: --prefix=/usr/local/cpffmpeg --enable-shared --enable-nonfree --enable-gpl --enable-pthreads --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-decoder=liba52 --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --extra-cflags=-I/usr/local/cpffmpeg/include/ --extra-ldflags=-L/usr/local/cpffmpeg/lib --enable-version3 --extra-version=syslint [3] =&gt; libavutil 51. 48.100 / 51. 48.100 [4] =&gt; libavcodec 54. 17.101 / 54. 17.101 [5] =&gt; libavformat 54. 3.100 / 54. 3.100 [6] =&gt; libavdevice 53. 4.100 / 53. 4.100 [7] =&gt; libavfilter 2. 72.100 / 2. 72.100 [8] =&gt; libswscale 2. 1.100 / 2. 1.100 [9] =&gt; libswresample 0. 11.100 / 0. 11.100 [10] =&gt; libpostproc 52. 0.100 / 52. 0.100 [11] =&gt; Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'pleasework.mp4': [12] =&gt; Metadata: [13] =&gt; major_brand : isom [14] =&gt; minor_version : 512 [15] =&gt; compatible_brands: isomiso2avc1mp41 [16] =&gt; creation_time : 2010-05-18 04:24:00 [17] =&gt; encoder : Lavf54.3.100 [18] =&gt; Duration: 00:00:46.54, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1843 kb/s [19] =&gt; Stream #0:0(und): Video: h264 (Constrained Baseline) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p, 640x264 [SAR 127:128 DAR 635:264], 1715 kb/s, 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 24k tbn, 47.95 tbc [20] =&gt; Metadata: [21] =&gt; creation_time : 2010-05-18 04:24:00 [22] =&gt; handler_name : VideoHandler [23] =&gt; Stream #0:1(und): Audio: aac (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 44100 Hz, stereo, s16, 124 kb/s [24] =&gt; Metadata: [25] =&gt; creation_time : 2010-05-18 04:24:00 [26] =&gt; handler_name : SoundHandler [27] =&gt; At least one output file must be specified ) </code></pre> <p>The metadata looks almost the same yet it doesn't seem to play in android. Any help appreciated.</p>
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