Compressor 3 encoded AC3 cannot be played

Had an issues with compressor 3.
Ac3 files I encoded does not work with mplayer or other ac3tools. All of which give me the "check sum error".
Even if I use divx muxer or mkv muxer, it will not read the ac3 files which I encoded from compressor 3.

I built the site and player from scratch. It's very simple: The Flash player progressively plays MP4 videos using its FLVPlayback component.
When I view the MP4 files directly in Firefox (on my Mac) via Quicktime player:
http://www.daydreamtv.org/media/200806150739_1robbie.mp4
They are perfect and smooth. My guess is it's got to be the player, but I wanted to ask you before I start digging into it because you pointed me in the direction of MPEG Streamclip and I figured you have a bit of experience working with browser-based video delivery.

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Hi hope someone is in a position to answer this.
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Have a large collection of m4v files with multiple audio tracks. First track is AC3 passthough, second is AAC downmix.
With the current version of ios this is great. If I stream to Apple TV I get 5.1 surround.
If I sync to the ipad it automatically selected the stereo track to play back.
When I tried out 4.2 this no longer happened. Clicking on video that worked fine in 3.2 failed to play back with 4.2 "Video cannot be played". SYNCS - but doesnt play.
Does anyone know if this has been resolved with the finished release? Not keen to update if I lose the ability to play back my video collection on the ipad.
Folders would be nice, but not really worth the trade off.
Anyone in a position to confirm if this has been resolved in the final release?

Hello there,
Not sure as to why this is happening suddenly. I would take a look at this Apple support document related to this issue. It's a good place to start at least.
[iPod does not play content purchased from the iTMS|http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1510?viewlocale=en_US]
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HT1351 I've encoded a vinyl LP record into digital format and recorded it onto an usb as MP3 file. But when I tried to copy it onto my ipod classic, I get a message stating "was not copied to the ipod because it cannot be played on this ipod". Why?

I've encoded a vinyl LP record into digital format and recorded it onto an usb as MP3 file. But when I tried to copy it onto my ipod classic, I get a message stating "was not copied to the ipod because it cannot be played on this ipod". Why?

I was refering to the "sample rate", normally 44.1 KHz, the iPod might not be able to play tracks with a non-standard rate. Otherwise I'm not sure what the issue might be.
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I just recently upgraded my itouch from 4.1 to ios5, and updated to itunes 10.5. when isynced my music files,ebooks and other apps, all is working except when im trying to sync my video files. it says, canot be synced as cannot be played on this ipod.help

i just recently upgraded my itouch from 4.1 to ios 5, and updated to itunes 10.5. but when i synced my music files,ebooks and other apps, all is working except when im trying to sync my video files. it says, canot be synced as cannot be played on this ipod. but those are the same files that i have when i was using the old 4.1 version and its syncing just fine.. the itunes advanced tab "create iphone or ipod version" is not working either so i cant convert it to be xferred and synced. what can i do to have my video files synced?

i had the same problem but i just got a new video converter and made it convert videos to ipod/iphone format and then put them into itunes. i would suggest GOM encoder as the encoder can convert them and then once they're finished converting, put them automatically into your itunes for you. from there you can just sync them to your ipod.

file was not copied to the iPod because it cannot be played on this iPod

Hi,
   I'm a complete newb with the first generation iPod Touch. It's my wife's and I don't use it but I wanted to experiement with giving her access to some movies. As an experiment I've encoded 1 chapter of a movie on my Linux box using Handbrake using the iPhone & iPod Touch preset. The file is about 7MB. It plays fine on the Linux box. I've copied it over to my Windows machine, have my wife's iPod Touch hooked up and it's visible in iTunes. I select the video directory for the iPod in iTunes and then try dragging the video file into iTunes. At this point I'm presented the message:
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As a follow-up I talked to my son who has an iPod and he tells me that, assuming I understood him correctly, when I open iTunes and choose Library->Movies I should see something like a file browser, and that when I drag the video from my desktop into iTunes I should see it there in the browser.
I currently am not seeing anything that looks like a file browser, but something more like an adversitisement for capabilities of iTunes and the iTunes store. I've got a green shopping bag that has some text to the right saying 'Download movies' and to the right of that some green tickets to the right with text that says 'Rent movies'.
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When buying it, I had the intent of copying it to my iPod and listening to it at work.
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Hi,
I am the network manager of a school that has just done a 1 to 1 roll out of over a thousand iPad 2's to its pupils, and I have made some video tutorials for them - the next problem I had was distributing these videos, I tried various different methods and then decided that podcasting them would probably be a handy way being as this would allow them to get the tutorials that they required, and would work with our current systems.
The problem I have is that when you click on the podcast in the iTunes app it says 'videoname' cannot be played on this iPad - now, this is hard to believe as if I embed this video in an epub, it works, if I view the podcast feed in RSSRadio App all the video's play fine.
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is the link to it on iTunes
http://www.honywoodschool.com/podcast/44986
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>Honywood iPad Tutorials</title>
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<item>
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   <pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:11:48 +0100</pubDate>
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   <guid>http://www.honywoodschool.com/user/59/133934.mp4</guid>
</item>
<item>
   <title>overview.mp4</title>
   <description>Hardware overview of your iPad</description>
   <itunes:author></itunes:author>
   <pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:26:10 +0100</pubDate>
   <enclosure url="http://www.honywoodschool.com/user/59/133911.mp4" length="21943423" type="video/x-mpeg" />
   <guid>http://www.honywoodschool.com/user/59/133911.mp4</guid>
</item>
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   <itunes:author></itunes:author>
   <pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:26:02 +0100</pubDate>
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but I can't believe that this works in one podcast app and not iTunes (it seems to work fine in iTunes on the PC too, so surely that would suggest the podcast RSS or whatever you'd call it is formatted correctly?)
Any ideas would be massively helpful, even if only to say I have to re-encode my videos AGAIN, even though they do play on the iPad if I get them onto it via a different means than iTunes.
Cheers
Charles

When you have a query please post the feed URL rather than its contents. For the record, yours is at
http://www.honywoodschool.com/podcast/44986
I don't have an iPad to test this, so I can only refer you to Apple's Podcast Tech Specs page:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/specs.html#formattingvideo
This says that the maximum video size for an iPad is 1024x768 - your latest episode is 1280x720.
Slightly confusingly, it also says
'iPad & Apple TV can play the following video formats:
H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps per channel, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats
MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats
Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format'
which suggests that mp4 files are even more limited.
Incidentally your feed gives this URL for the media file:
http://www.honywoodschool.com/user/59/133934.mp4
However when downloaded this produces a file called 'howtosetupappeid.mp4' so soe sort of redirect appears to be in place, and these can sometimes cause trouble. It's better to link directly to the file - it's possible that the iPad doesn't handle the redirect.
That's all I can suggest: if it still doesn't cover the problem I can only refer you to the iPad forum where someone may be able to actually try your podcast and offer a comment.

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we're in the process of filling a new iTunes channel with video content to be downloaded via the iTunes store.
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Compressor 3 encoded AC3 cannot be played

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