[Maya-Python] Re: anyone here experienced with ffmpeg?

2012-09-28 Thread deanareeno
Are you using Quicktime Player to play the .mov file on Windows? In the past that's the only time I've experienced 'messy green' when viewing back playblasts. Solved by doing the following in Quicktime Player: Edit > Preferences > Quicktime Preferences > Advanced > Video > click 'Safe Mode (GDI

Re: [Maya-Python] Re: anyone here experienced with ffmpeg?

2012-09-28 Thread Emre Yilmaz
One thing the OP said that jumped out for me-- "Is it because h.264 doesn't like my resolution? When I playblast at 1920x1080 it seems to always work." How much choice do the users of your tool have over image size? While I'm not familiar with ffmpeg on windows, I have a memory that h.264, MPEG-4

Re: [Maya-Python] Re: anyone here experienced with ffmpeg?

2012-09-28 Thread Mark Jackson
http://markj3d.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Playblast not sure if any of that helps, but we've been through a lot of pain in the past with Codecs! On 28 September 2012 16:24, Emre Yilmaz wrote: > > One thing the OP said that jumped out for me-- "Is it because h.264 doesn't > like my resolution?

Re: [Maya-Python] Re: anyone here experienced with ffmpeg?

2012-09-28 Thread Panupat Chongstitwattana
Hi all. @ deanareeno. Yes I was using quicktime player! But the output also shows up weird on VLC and WMC too. I'm guessing I'm not using the codec right :( After a lot of experimenting, the problem seems really random. Usually the first few times after restarting, the conversion seems to be fine

Re: [Maya-Python] Re: anyone here experienced with ffmpeg?

2012-09-28 Thread Panupat Chongstitwattana
Hi everyone. After experimenting more I think I'm getting more predicable result now. A couple things I had done at home. - playblast out as PNG sequence. FFmpeg reads jpg sequence much faster with less CPU, but for some reason it always get the aspect ratio of jpg wrong. - force resolution to be