Muxer for HD MPEG-2 m2v + mp2(mpa)

[WorBry]

Oldish topic I know, but could anyone recommend a reliable, GUI-based tool for muxing HD-MPEG2 m2v and mp2 (mpa) to m2t (as per the source HDV files) or mpg?

I was using TMPGenc but, since upgrading from XP Pro to Win 7 64-bit, the version I had is not compatible. Not sure I really want to fork out for the upgrade purely to use as a demuxer/muxer, if there are other tools that can do the job.

Tried Imago MPEG muxer, but all I can get out of it is a tiny mpg file amounting to the first few frames.

Also had a look DVDAuthorGUI, another oft quoted tool from years gone by, but it appears that the muxing component (MPlex) can only be accessed as a CLI. I'd prefer to avoid scripting command lines, if at all possible.

Cheers.

[Guest]

Imago works fine for me but if not for you, perhaps try the GUI version of mplex.exe.

[WorBry]

Originally Posted by neuron2

Imago works fine for me but if not for you....

Definitely not working for me, and (searching for possible solutions) I see this poster had the same issue:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1060039#post1060039

Originally Posted by neuron2

.... perhaps try the GUI version of mplex.exe.

Did you mean this one - jplex-gui?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/jplex-gui/

[qyot27]

A roundabout way of doing it would be to use mkvmerge-gui to mux the streams into MKV, and then use a custom profile in WinFF* to remux to MPEG-2 PS (WinFF doesn't expose ffmpeg's muxing features, since it's mainly meant to be a transcoding GUI).

*Go to Edit->Presets and enter the following in the relevant fields (the preset name/label and category can be whatever you want them to, just make it memorable):
'Preset name' field: MPEGremux
'Preset label' field: MPEGremux
'Preset Command-Line parameters' field: -vcodec copy -acodec copy
'Output File Extension' field: mpg
'Category' field: Mux

And then click Add/Update, and OK, and then go back to the main window. Select the Preset, then add the MKV file, and click the Convert button. Thankfully, the preset should only have to be added once.


You could probably also use VLC's muxing capability as well, I'm pretty sure it uses libavformat (and would let you use the original m2v and mp2 files instead).

[Guest]

Originally Posted by WorBry

Did you mean this one - jplex-gui?

No. I meant this one:

http://neuron2.net/misc/mplex.exe

[WorBry]

Originally Posted by neuron2

No. I meant this one:

http://neuron2.net/misc/mplex.exe

Yes, that works fine. Thanks a lot.

@qyot27 - thanks for your suggestions, nonetheless.

[Guest]

Originally Posted by WorBry

Yes, that works fine. Thanks a lot.

@qyot27 - thanks for your suggestions, nonetheless.

My pleasure. For your future reference, you can't load an AC3 directly but you can type the file name by hand and it will work,