jarekom
15th July 2007, 15:27
Hello,
I have some MPEG-2 movies recorded from TV (PAL, 720x576, 25fps, between 1,5 and 2,5 hours long) which I played already on my PC with WinDVD without any problems. Now I would like to transfer the movies to my Creative ZEN Vision M player. The maximum values the player can deal with are 720x576, 30fps, 2500kbps, so I have to convert the movies to reduce the video bitrate.
First I tried the tool Super (current version) and converted to AVI (MPEG-4 XviD) with 640x480, 25 fps and 2000 kbps. The converted movies run smooth, without any delay between audio and video BUT each movie ended at about 1 hour and 4 minutes (+/- some seconds). There was no error message during or after converting.
Next, I tried Auto Gordian Knot (XviD), setting the resolution to 640x480, framerate to 25 fps and the max. size of the file to a value which leads to a bitrate below 2500 fps.
The converted movies were complete, but with a delay between audio and video of sometimes more than 1-2 seconds and very bad quality ("stripes" at fast movement). I also had the feeling that the delay increased when playing the movie for a longer time.
The third attempt was the Iriverter 1.7. The settings were 640x480 and 2000 kbps. The resulting movies (MPEG-4 XviD) were of full lenght. After copying the files to my ZEN player, there was no delay between audio and video! BUT, when the player came to about 1 hour and 4 minutes (or for some movies 1 hour and 10 minutes), it just stopped. The value of remaining time changed to 0:00 and from now on the lenght of the movie was shown as 1:04:xx (or 1:10:xx).
I tried to play the converted video on my PC with Media Player Classic, but it refuses to play the file. After loading, it shows a message "This AVI file was not prepared for sequential reading, the alternative "Avi Splitter" will now let the default one handle it. The complete reinterleaving of this file is strongly recommendet before burning it onto slow medial like CD-rom"
The message shows also a graph which I attached below.
I wanted to cut out the frame with AviDeFreezer, but I have to put in the exact number of the freezed frame. The manual says to load the video into VirtualDub and scroll to the freezed frame, but VirtualDub refuses to load the file. It opens, but with the message at the bottom "VideoSourceAVI error: file read error (8004406d)" and it cannot show any frame.
I tried to run DivFix with the file, but the error search ends with no results and trying to strip the index ends with a message saying that "...there is no index, unexpected end of file".
So, can anyone here help me?
How can I keep good quality with AutoGK without synchronisation problems?
Or how can I repair the files converted with Iriverter?
What does the suggestion from Media Player Classig mean? (complete reinterleaving)
Thanks a lot in advance
Jarek
I have some MPEG-2 movies recorded from TV (PAL, 720x576, 25fps, between 1,5 and 2,5 hours long) which I played already on my PC with WinDVD without any problems. Now I would like to transfer the movies to my Creative ZEN Vision M player. The maximum values the player can deal with are 720x576, 30fps, 2500kbps, so I have to convert the movies to reduce the video bitrate.
First I tried the tool Super (current version) and converted to AVI (MPEG-4 XviD) with 640x480, 25 fps and 2000 kbps. The converted movies run smooth, without any delay between audio and video BUT each movie ended at about 1 hour and 4 minutes (+/- some seconds). There was no error message during or after converting.
Next, I tried Auto Gordian Knot (XviD), setting the resolution to 640x480, framerate to 25 fps and the max. size of the file to a value which leads to a bitrate below 2500 fps.
The converted movies were complete, but with a delay between audio and video of sometimes more than 1-2 seconds and very bad quality ("stripes" at fast movement). I also had the feeling that the delay increased when playing the movie for a longer time.
The third attempt was the Iriverter 1.7. The settings were 640x480 and 2000 kbps. The resulting movies (MPEG-4 XviD) were of full lenght. After copying the files to my ZEN player, there was no delay between audio and video! BUT, when the player came to about 1 hour and 4 minutes (or for some movies 1 hour and 10 minutes), it just stopped. The value of remaining time changed to 0:00 and from now on the lenght of the movie was shown as 1:04:xx (or 1:10:xx).
I tried to play the converted video on my PC with Media Player Classic, but it refuses to play the file. After loading, it shows a message "This AVI file was not prepared for sequential reading, the alternative "Avi Splitter" will now let the default one handle it. The complete reinterleaving of this file is strongly recommendet before burning it onto slow medial like CD-rom"
The message shows also a graph which I attached below.
I wanted to cut out the frame with AviDeFreezer, but I have to put in the exact number of the freezed frame. The manual says to load the video into VirtualDub and scroll to the freezed frame, but VirtualDub refuses to load the file. It opens, but with the message at the bottom "VideoSourceAVI error: file read error (8004406d)" and it cannot show any frame.
I tried to run DivFix with the file, but the error search ends with no results and trying to strip the index ends with a message saying that "...there is no index, unexpected end of file".
So, can anyone here help me?
How can I keep good quality with AutoGK without synchronisation problems?
Or how can I repair the files converted with Iriverter?
What does the suggestion from Media Player Classig mean? (complete reinterleaving)
Thanks a lot in advance
Jarek