VLC says there's 17 streams...?

[Fabian]

I just now rendered out a video with stereo audio, H.264 45%, AAC 128kbps. I can view the video fine in the project, but VLC has problems playing it, it simply does not play it but gives no error message, nothing. If I check in VLC Media information under the codec tab, VLC claims that there are 17 streams, numbered 0 to 16. I expected one video stream and one (stereo) audio stream.

Trying to load the video into Reaper, it tells me "Could not import 1 of 1 items".

Available decoder information is:

Using output: DirectShow
Current video frame: 1920x1080 'YV12' #50

Available decoder information:

========== VLC ==========
VLC v3.0.x
Loaded from: P:\Reaper6\VLC

========== ffmpeg/libav ==========
ffmpeg/libav DLL decoder v58.35.100

Loaded from: P:\Reaper6\UserPlugins\64\avcodec-58.dll
ffmpeg/libav configuration:
  --disable-static
  --enable-shared
  --enable-gpl
  --enable-version3
  --enable-sdl2
  --enable-fontconfig
  --enable-gnutls
  --enable-iconv
  --enable-libass
  --enable-libbluray
  --enable-libfreetype
  --enable-libmp3lame
  --enable-libopencore-amrnb
  --enable-libopencore-amrwb
  --enable-libopenjpeg
  --enable-libopus
  --enable-libshine
  --enable-libsnappy
  --enable-libsoxr
  --enable-libtheora
  --enable-libtwolame
  --enable-libvpx
  --enable-libwavpack
  --enable-libwebp
  --enable-libx264
  --enable-libx265
  --enable-libxml2
  --enable-libzimg
  --enable-lzma
  --enable-zlib
  --enable-gmp
  --enable-libvidstab
  --enable-libvorbis
  --enable-libvo-amrwbenc
  --enable-libmysofa
  --enable-libspeex
  --enable-libxvid
  --enable-libaom
  --enable-libmfx
  --enable-amf
  --enable-ffnvcodec
  --enable-cuvid
  --enable-d3d11va
  --enable-nvenc
  --enable-nvdec
  --enable-dxva2
  --enable-avisynth

ffmpeg/libav search path:
  %PATH%
  P:\Reaper6
  P:\Reaper6\UserPlugins\64
  P:\Reaper6\UserPlugins
  P:\Reaper6\Plugins

========== DirectShow ==========
DirectShow available

Does anyone have any suggestions how to fix this?

[Fabian]

Rendering as mkv, which VLC again does not play, when loaded into MKVTools I get told that "No EBML head found. This file is probably not a Matroska file".

What is going on here...?

[Fabian]

If I render as AVI, VLC plays it and says that there are two streams, one video and one audio, just as expected. I can also load into Reaper and play it there.

But neither VLC nor Reaper play the audio from the beginning!

When playing it in Reaper, each time I play it, the audio starts later than it started the previous time. So, first time the audio starts after 2 seconds. Hit pause and play, audio starts after 4 seconds. Hit pause and play, audio starts after 7 seconds. Hit pause and play, audio starts after 10 seconds, etc... And now Reaper crashed! Playing a video it created itself.

Has anyone experienced this?

[EpicSounds]

where is the ffmpeg downloaded from?


mine says v58.134.100

yours says v58.35.100

[Fabian]

Originally Posted by EpicSounds

where is the ffmpeg downloaded from?


mine says v58.134.100

yours says v58.35.100

Yeah, I have several version of ffmpeg herem, I'm using the latest one that did not have this issue https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=245135

Yours is newer than the ones I have tested v58.54.100, v58.91.100 (4.3.0), v58.91.100 (4.3.1), v54.92.100. All of those have problems with h.264, AAC, and/or mp3. Maybe I should try that newer version.

Thanks.

[EpicSounds]

4.4.1 for reaper 6.43+ on windows.
do not use 5.0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWSum2b_Wcg