Nic's MpegDecoder

[el_sr_al]

Hi Nic,
I've trying to find filters that would allow me to serve my Sony IP7 MicromMV files to avisynth (micromv is some sony digital video format that is basically MPEg2 transport systems) and I saw your post about the MPEGSOURCE.ddl.

I copied the dll member to windows/system32 directory and I tried to load a file with the following avs script:
LoadPlugin("MPEGDecoder.dll")
MPEGSource("C:\Documents and Settings\administrator\Desktop\MS20020618210750-04.mmv",0,"0x1023")

and it doesn't work, can you tell me what am I missing?
I presume it has to do with the 2nd and third parameters,on that issue could you tell me what does video PID stand for?
I was reading the documentation that came with the dll member but I'm not able to understand what do I do base my second and third parameters on.
Thansk
El_Sr_Al

[Nic]

Well what you did was correct :)
The second parameter sets the number of frames in the file, setting it to 0, auto selects the number.

The third number (which is in a "" string) selects the PID, which is the streams identifcation number. On pretty standard streams this tends to be 0x1023 for video & 0x1022 for audio. But these numbers can vary alot (I think I heard that ATSC streams have a PID of something like 0x11? (or have got that completely wrong?, im sure trbarry knows more)

Do you have a short clip you could mail to me or upload somewhere? I can test to see what PIDs are available & to see how compatible a Transport Stream it is....

In summary it should have worked, all I can think is its either not a fully compatible Transport Stream, or its video PID is not 0x1023

Cheers,
-Nic

[hakko504]

PID stadsstands for Program Identification Descriptor and I think ATSC and DVB both have valid PIDs between 0x0020 and 0xFFFE for audio/video/data. The lower PIDs are used for storing information about the stream itself. To find what PIDs are available in a stream use bbTools from Doom9's download page (http://www.doom9.org).

[el_sr_al]

thanks for the prompt replies,
I tried the bbtools but when trying to open the file with bbva it says unable to open file xxxx.mnv for reading.
I attach the following file for Nic.

As far as I know is fully transport streams and I'm able to serve it to nandub with the filters from elecard/moolight.co.il

Thanks again
El_Sr_Al

[el_sr_al]

Sorry no attachmen! I wasn't able to post with the attachment file (it was a 6mb Zip file) whenever I tried to post it gave the page not found error, I was trying to post from college network I don't know if that might something to do (not too sure about restriction through their proxy server.
El_Sr_Al

[Nic]

You could try and send to nic <at> nic.dnsalias.com

Cheers,
-Nic

[Koepi]

If you'd read the notice in te posting form for attachments, you'll find this cute line:
Attach file:
Maximum size: 1048576 bytes
Valid file extensions: gif jpg png txt zip bmp jpeg vcf

Regards,
Koepi