[HELP] Videos unable to be played after compiling

[epicaccount]

Whenever my video finishes compiling, it's saying that "the video is encoded in a format that does not have support", despite being in .mp4.
I assume it's not what format the video is but maybe something in the video, maybe the coded or something, i did find a solution by uploading the video on youtube and re-downloading it but then it's kinda compressed and it takes ages to upload long videos because of my bad internet ...

I wonder if it's possible to make it so i can play it immedeately/install a plugin to add the support to these types of videos ..
VLC media also can't play my videos, maybe i'm doing something wrong?

I'm a newbie so any help is appreciated, thank you.

[Selur]

Sadly, not enough info to really help.
I assume the encoding worked without Hybrid reporting any issues, right?

• What audio format, video format, container format, subtitle format are you encoding to?
  
• Create a debug output (read sticky on how to do that) of one of your encodings, so I know what you are doing.
  
• On what ?media player? are you trying to play back the created video?
  

Cu Selur

[epicaccount]

Hey, I'll try to reply in best of my understanding. I use the latest Hybrid version.

- Yes. encoding worked without Hybrid reporting any issues, "job finished". Only thing that kind of noted my attention was "Ignoring time codes for output since Vapoursynth deinterlacing is used and the frame rate changed." but idk if that means something.
- I'm converting .avi PAL 720x576 recordings in 25fps to mp4, i had an format pcd error but i solved it by putting "autoadd all" instead of "passthrough all", no subtitles.
- I'm deinterlacing it with bob enabled, and lossless as "resharpening before", color matrix from Rec.601 to Rec.701, using the ProRes 422 HQ, and I'm using only two denoisers - MC Temporal Denoise and mClean.
- HybridDebug attached.
- Trying to play it anywhere really, VLC media and TV & Movies windows software both didn't want to preview the video, it's telling me it's in an apch format which is often not supported on Windows, should i use something else instead of a ProRes?

Also one more question, is it possible to not put hybrid into Hidden icons? when i hit minimise it disappears from the bottom system tray and hides itself. Thanks.

Brunhilda

[Selur]

Also one more question, is it possible to not put hybrid into Hidden icons? when i hit minimise it disappears from the bottom system tray and hides itself.

Disabling "Config->View->Minimize to system tray" will stop Hybrid from minimizing to the system tray.

- Trying to play it anywhere really, VLC media and TV & Movies windows software both didn't want to preview the video, it's telling me it's in an apch format which is often not supported on Windows, should i use something else instead of a ProRes?

ProRes:

• is a format targeted as intermediate format between some editing tools.
  
• in mp4 is allowed, but not supported by all tools. Better use .mov as container.
  

(for archival, and even as intermediate, I personally prefer lossless formats)

Normal Windows Software will not support ProRes, since it is DirectShow based and afaik. there is not DirectShow decoder for ProRes.
I'm surprised that VLC does play it on your system.
VLC and MPC-HC plays it fine here.
I tried using VLC 4.0.0 from https://nightlies.videolan.org/, I also read that the 3.0.23 fixed some bugs related to ProRes playback.
=> maybe you just need to update your VLC.

Cu Selur

[epicaccount]

Hello, thank you for the sistem tray thing, and yeah i was also surprised VLC didn't want to play it, i have 3.0.23 and i will try the 4.0 version.
Now, .mov doesn't really work on my editing software, hence why I'm trying to use .mp4 predominantly. I forgot to mention it originally i want to use it in an editing software as well.

What do you mean by lossless formats? I hope the .avi file is enough and unaltered, though for the hybrid result I don't really need to have a "lossless format" as I want to compile the multiple .avi videos into one long 90 minute video and upload it to YouTube which will destroy the original quality still but that's no biggie, I just want to share it.
Though my main problem is that by uploading the .mp4 file that didn't want to play, downloading it, compile the video into the long 90 minute one, and then upload it to YouTube again for some reason really compressed the video a second time so that's why I'd rather only upload it once - if the problem is YouTube compressing it twice? (i tried uploading only a part of the video, not the whole video as well, and it heavily compressed it either way)

And what format would you recommend so i can properly compile it to .mp4/.mkv so i can work from it straightforward?

Brunhilda

[Selur]

Now, .mov doesn't really work on my editing software, hence why I'm trying to use .mp4 predominantly. I forgot to mention it originally i want to use it in an editing software as well.

If your editing software doesn't support mov, it probably will not support ProRes. ProRes is only common in .mov.

Check if your editing software supports one of these:
a. Lossless H.265 with 'Main 4:4:4 - 12bit' (supported by x265)
b. FFvHuff with 'i444' and 16-bit (supported by FFvHuff)
c. FFV1 with 'i444' and 16-bit (supported by FFV1)
There are other options like DNxHD, ProRes and others that are at most 12bit or 10bit and not lossless.
(Personally, I would probably use FFV1, since it should be supported by anything at supports libav.)
Lossless compression will create large files, but that is okay for intermediate files (files that still get edited).
Ideally your take your source and stay lossless until the last compression for distribution.
You probably don't want to upload a lossless file to YouTube due to the size. So for that I would either use x264 if the resolution <= HD and x265 otherwise.
(both with crf encoding and at most a crf of 18)
YouTube will reencode everything you upload, no matter whether it is a file you downloaded from YouTube or not.

Cu Selur

[epicaccount]

Thank you, those options worked flawlessly! I'll stick to the x265 using the "Main" things, since I'm uploading it to YouTube and i don’t want to wait years once i get to digitising the other videos and uploading them, though out of curiosity where do I set x265 for it to be "Lossless H.256", is it the 4:4:4 12-bit one? or i'm missing something .. anyways, many thanks.

Brunhilda

[Selur]

for x265 'lossless':
1. set 'Encoding mode' to 'contant quantizer'
2. depending on you rneeds adjust the Profile (i.e. to 'Main 4:4:4 12bit')

Cu Selur

[epicaccount]

for x265 'lossless':
1. set 'Encoding mode' to 'contant quantizer'
2. depending on you rneeds adjust the Profile (i.e. to 'Main 4:4:4 12bit')

Thank you.