Scenarist Error

[utulu]

I was trying to import an mpeg video file with the .mpv extension but with no success. An error prompted with the following: "Error: Number of fields (36) in GOP(#2) or between sequence_header_code should be equal or smaller than 30." Could you help please.

Thanks

[Corion]

You'll need to re-encode the mpeg with a smaller GOP size. Try setting it to 12 frames (as you have it now, it will be set to 18). You'll also want a sequence header before every GOP.

[utulu]

What are the best tools to use to re-encode without the possibel loss of quality.

Many thanks

[Corion]

TMPEG is pretty good. You'll find links to it all over this site.

[mp3dom]

Try Womble MPEG Video Wizard. This program has some tools to fix the MPEG stream to be DVD compliant without re-encoding anything so you don't have any loss of quality. It could works but it's not 100% sure (give it a try anyway)

[jshumate]

The non-free version of the Teco Bit Rate Viewer (http:///www.tecoltd.com) can modify a demuxed video stream and may be able to fix your problem. I am guessing that your problem is not that your GOPs have too many frames, but that each of your GOPs needs a sequence header and your video stream is missing that. However, Corion might be right that you have too many frames per GOP, but I'm guessing that it's really a problem of missing sequence headers.

[utulu]

The original source was extracted form a dvb source with the .pva extension file which after was demuxed using the Project x application. Could this problem will be solved by tweaking perhaps the Project X demux application before the actual dvb source demux. Many thanks for your help.