Automation of cutting - demultiplexing and transcoding with TMPGENC

[McDermott]

Hi, this is my first post in this forum :-)
I create SVCD with (the excellent) DVD2SVCD programm all works very good.
I want to create animated menu for my SVCD for burning them with VCDEasy, TSCV is too buggy :-(
The things I want to do are :
Create small mpeg files for the menu (cutting MPEG2 file from time-code 1 to time-code 2) 9 times for 9 chapters
Demultiplex the files I've just created
Transform the .m2v to .jpg for all the files
Transform all the .jpg and assembling them to create the images for the menu (I've made this script using ImageMagick)
Transform all the pictures in a .mpg file (using TMPGenc)

All works fine but I have to do all the things by hand

Is there a way to do it in a script or automaticly ?

Thx in advance for your answer

[dinesh]

If you do not wish to use TSCV for animated menu, check out my guide using Avisynth and Virtualdub, with TMPGEnc. Let me know if you have any problems.
www.geocities.com/diarav2002/vcd

[McDermott]

Thx for your answer
I've just read your guide, but Virtual Dub don't read MPEG2 stream (on my computer) what can I do ?

[dinesh]

Oops I did not realise that. Try this. Download the mpeg2dec.dll for Avisynth (on doom9's main software download page). This gives Avisynth capability to read mpeg2 files. I have not used it, you may have to look up on the Avisynth forum on how to use it. Create an AVS file and open the AVS file in VirtualDub.
As for the guides,I would personally recommend using method 6.2.2 ( AVISynth for single clip Not so slow version). Because the method 6.2.1 is VERY SLOW.
Let me know of any problems.

[McDermott]

Ok, I've tried it, but it's more difficult and required more work than my method.
Thx for your help but does anybody knows is there is a way to cut mpeg2 files from one frame to another with a command line tools ?