Crash on import Google Pixel clips

[zaphodikus]

I've changed my video recording settings I think - I also updated to android 14. And now the clips all cause VS to crash on import.
I ran them clips through a simple import
ffmpeg -i "C:\Users\zapho\Videos\Projects\random_temp\PXL_20230817_182238171.mp4" -vcodec libx264 -acodec aac -y output.mp4

but VS then merely shows the 1st frame and then psychadelic noise when importing the result even though VLC will playback both files quite happily. Any ffmpeg conversion filters I might try to handle video show on Google Pixel 7 phone?

[rwernyei]

Your Pixel shoots H.265/HEVC and ffmpeg is looking for yuv420p profile to properly convert H.264 mp4.

Try this: ffmpeg -i C:\Users\zapho\Videos\Projects\random_temp\PXL_20230817_182238171.mp4 -c:v libx264 -preset ultrafast -crf 26 -pix_fmt yuv420p -c:a aac -b:a 128k output.mp4

You can change crf to 18 for best quality and the audio bitrate from 128k to whatever you want.

Hope this helps.

Robert

[zaphodikus]

You are awesome. The yuv profile thing was and still makes it all a bit black magic for my old noodle bowl of braincells, but I shall bookmark and just pop in a batch file.

I have a bit of time so I'm using the veryslow preset (I get about 2 frames-per-second) and it looks pretty sweet in the output. thanks a mill.