How to covert EVO to MPEG2???

[Vauxhall95]

Recently, I purchased the new LG drive with the Blu-Ray and HD-DVD reader support. Also, I own a Vista PC, AnyDVD HD, and a media center called the Mediagate 350HD (essentially a box with a hard drive in it which will hook up to a TV and a PC, it plays .vob files as well as MPEG1/2 files). What I have done in the past was use AnyDVD to create a "movie jukebox" with the Mediagate 350HD. I was hoping I could do the same with HD-DVD's as it plays MPEG2 files and is capable of 1080i resolutions.

However, it seems like HD-DVD re encoding is a far more complex process at this time. I used AnyDVD HD to rip the movie to my hard drive and then used a program called HD DVD Demuxer 1.4 to "demux" (which I'm not sure what that means). What do I do now to convert this .evo file to an MPEG2 format which is compatible which my Mediagate 350HD? The Mediagate does not play h.264 or x.264 or the mkv containers (I hope I got that right). It will play MPEG2 and video ts.

Any help you could give would be greatly appreciated. I did look at the guides but I did not see anything about converting to MPEG2 as h.264 seems to be all the rage. I'm not a totally noob but this HD-DVD process does seem vastly more complex then the old DVD's.

Also, just to clarify as this is my first post: I've purchased everything legitimately, I'm simply trying to move files from one format to another so I can keep my "movie jukebox" system happy.

THANK YOU!!!

[mikeytown2]

Searching i found this
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1035422#post1035422

It looks like working with evo files isn't the easiest, once you get the video into a avisynth script your set.

[Vauxhall95]

Okay, I'll check it out. THANK YOU! I'm really glad you responded.

Searching i found this
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1035422#post1035422

It looks like working with evo files isn't the easiest, once you get the video into a avisynth script your set.

[tandersn]

I have a similar situation, and a question about the solution on the link above.

1st, I have various MPG4 files (like HDDVD 1080p24 movie serenity in the example) that I need to convert to MPEG2 1080i60. I want to record them on to my DVHS deck.

2nd, I don't understand why the process in the link is so complicated, why can't you just use ffmpeg like this:

ffmpeg -i feature.evo -f mpegts -vcodec mpeg2video -b 24000k -r 30000\1001 -s hd1080 -acodec copy -map 0.0:0.0 -map 0.2:0.1 \tempout\feature.mpg

(note to original poster, remove "-f mpegts" for your situation)

[neuron2]

1st, I have various MPG4 files (like HDDVD 1080p24 movie serenity in the example) Why not re-encode from your original DVDs? Quality will be better that way.

[tandersn]

Why not re-encode from your original DVDs? Quality will be better that way.

the files are simply the decrypted .EVO files off the HDDVD.

Can anyone comment on why I should do it the way in the aforementioned URL compared to the way I am doing it?

[neuron2]

Can anyone comment on why I should do it the way in the aforementioned URL compared to the way I am doing it? Because it works and your way doesn't.

[tandersn]

Because it works and your way doesn't.

How does my way not work? It worked for me? (at least as far as the object of this thread). That's a pretty inaccurate statement.

[tandersn]

Can anyone comment on why I should do it the way in the aforementioned URL compared to the way I am doing it?


What I meant, was: Why go through ten steps on the URL above when you can do it all with one ffmpeg step? The ffmpeg command I posted earlier worked fine for converting the HDDVD to MPEG2. The problem *I* had was that the -f mpegts flag was not honored, and the bitrate was not constant at 24Mbps, both of which are needed to save to DVHS. The outputed file played just fine though. So the command *DOES* work.

Tony