Creating MP4 with Audio
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Hello
I want to create an MP4 file which contains audio. VideoWriter is not suitable, as it doesn't input any audio data. So, I used vision.VideoFileWriter and step. But I have some problems.
When running the code below:
videoFWriter = vision.VideoFileWriter('Test.mp4', 'FileFormat', 'MPEG4', 'FrameRate', 30, 'AudioInputPort', true);
videoFWriter.VideoCompressor = 'MJPEG Compressor';
I receive the following warning message:
Warning: The AudioInputPort property is not relevant in this configuration of the System object.
When I change the code to the following, the video format is uncompressed AVI, which leads to huge file sizes.
videoFWriter = vision.VideoFileWriter('Test.avi', 'FileFormat', 'AVI', 'FrameRate', 30, 'AudioInputPort', true);
videoFWriter.VideoCompressor = 'MJPEG Compressor';
step(videoFWriter, FrameScreen, FrameAudio);
FrameAudio contains audio data corresponding to one video frame. It seems that it ignores 'MJPEG Compressor'.
I would love to be able to directly create .mp4 files, but if not possible, it is fine with me to create good quality compressed .avi files, and use a 3rd party software to convert to .mp4. I would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks.
My OS is Windows 7, and MATLAB r2017b.
Cheers
Amir-Homayoun
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Nick Choi
on 5 Oct 2017
Edited: Nick Choi
on 5 Oct 2017
Regarding the warning message, I think that this is occurring because the 'AudioInputPort' property is not supported for that file configuration.
If you write to a file using this configuration,
videoFWriter = vision.VideoFileWriter('Test.avi', 'FileFormat', 'AVI', 'VideoCompressor' , 'MJPEG Compressor', 'FrameRate', 30, 'AudioInputPort', true);
does it create a smaller file than this configuration?
videoFWriter = vision.VideoFileWriter('Test.avi', 'FileFormat', 'AVI', 'FrameRate', 30, 'AudioInputPort', true);
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Amir-Homayoun
on 14 Oct 2018
Hello,
I come back to this problem again and again. Every time I found a quick and dirty solution (such as creating big .avi files and then convert them to .mp4 using third party applications). But it would be great to be able to create .mp4 files that include audio directly using MATLAB. Would you please let me know if there is any way to do it? This is a sample code that I use:
VideoFrameRate = 24;
TempImage = imread('Sample.jpg');
[TempAudio, Fs] = audioread('Test.mp3');
TempAudio = TempAudio(1:4 * Fs, :); % select the first 4s
AudioStep = Fs / VideoFrameRate;
videoFWriter = vision.VideoFileWriter('Temp.mp4', 'FileFormat', 'MPEG4', 'FrameRate', VideoFrameRate, 'AudioInputPort', true);
videoFWriter.VideoCompressor = 'MJPEG Compressor';
for i = 1:(VideoFrameRate * length(TempAudio) / Fs)
TempIndexBeginning = floor((i - 1) * AudioStep) + 1;
TempIndexEnding = ceil(TempIndexBeginning + AudioStep - 1);
step(videoFWriter, TempImage, TempAudio(TempIndexBeginning:TempIndexEnding));
end
release(videoFWriter);
Thanks
Amir-Homayoun
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