<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Jonathan Hoskin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jonathan.hoskin@gmail.com" target="_blank">jonathan.hoskin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p style="color:#a0a0a8">On Sunday, 21 October 2012 at 4:33 PM, David Tildesley wrote:</p>
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<span><div><div><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"><div>Hi. I understand the freeview terrestial broadcast are in mp4 format but with some sort of mpeg2 wrapper? How then to quickly convert them to a format that android can use (tried the mpeg2 files with android and the sound doesn't work, while the picture is just fine).</div>
<div><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif">I currently use Handbrake to convert them but it takes an age and it seems a waste converting the videos just so that I can get the sound to work on Android.</div>
</div></div></div></span></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>The video is interlaced H.264, and the audio is LATM AAC. </div><div><br></div><div>You could try copying the video and audio streams into a supported container format, without re-encoding. However, I would doubt that Android has the capability to play interlaced video. Which means that you'll have to do re-encoding of everything anyway.</div>
</blockquote><br>He said the video was fine. That means that both the container format and the video codec is ok. It's just the audio that needs transcoding.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br></div>