[Joost Van voorst]

If you use the setting “same as source” you must be sure that anyone who wants to view your movie needs that AVID codec. Unless you are working in native DV. Personally I like the H264 codec. But choosing your own perfect codec settings is much like cooking. Every time you cook your favorite recipe it becomes a little better. And remember better ingredients make a better meal!

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond. – Marcel Proust

[Joost Van voorst]

Thanks for all the help.

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond. – Marcel Proust

[Joost Van voorst]

Crew,

The 8k/s I wrote down earlier is wrong. It is 8 s between kfs. So there is no keyframe issue at all.

I ended up re-building all the conversion tasks step by step. I came to the conclusion that the 2-pass during audio encoding is causing the issue. I changed this to a single pass and the issue is solved.

I’m sorry I can not explain exactly why this is the issue since I can’t find any log files and Carbon Coder is not leaving a lot of information in the event manager.

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond. – Marcel Proust

[Joost Van voorst]

That IS an interesting suggestion… I’ll have a glass of champagne tomorrow first, and I’ll be back on monday to give it a try!

Have a good one!

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond. – Marcel Proust

[Joost Van voorst]

Sorry, yes you guessed right. keyframes a second.

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond. – Marcel Proust

[Joost Van voorst]

Crew,

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. SInce this system is serving a newsroom I don’t have control over the source codecs being fed to the Carbon Coder. Besides that the “to use or not to use FLV” is an entire different discussion. Interesting, but not very valuable to the problem at hand.

Any suggestions on the phrase:

Your Windows Media installation is unable to execute the required tasks.
Please check your file and/or encoding parameters, or reinstall the Application.

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond. – Marcel Proust

[Joost Van voorst]

Source File: varies from AVI, Flash, Mov Etc.

Target File:

VIDEO
1 stream(s) (448 kbps) selected. Click for viewing all streams.
WM Video Stream 1
384×216
Video 16:9 Pix 1:1
FPS 25
Video Bitrate 448
8kf/s
Image Q 50
Constrained VBR
Max kbps 1000

AUDIO
1 stream(s) (128 kbps) selected. Click for viewing all streams.
Audio Stream 1
Windows Media Audio 9.1
128 kbps
KHz 44.1
Bits 16
Stereo
2-pass

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond. – Marcel Proust