problems converting captured movie

[bryanh]

Ok - I have been trying now for four days and MANY different ways. I have a capture card. I used Windvr to capture a show that was 108 minutes long. I have it set for the best quality. The movie totaled over 5 Gigs. WinDRV insists on files no larger than 4 Gigs. Therefore it broke the file into two pieces. So now I want to run DVD2SVCD to put this movie on CD's.

Using PVA you can only have one MPEG file (at least as far as I can tell). So I tried the following:

1) Copy /b file1.mpeg+file2.mpeg file_total.mpeg
2) Demux both files (Using TMPG) then
copy /b file1.audio+file2.audio total.audio
copy /b file1.video+file2.video total.video
Then Mux them back together (Using TMPG)

Both ways ended up with files that I could watch on Video Player, but when I tried to convert them it has problems. Usually with the audio. In the Besweet log I see a lot of this error

[00:00:00:104] Stream error : Sync found after 1038 bytes

In the end to new mpeg files are out of sync (using the first method ot combining the files) or at the wrong speed (using the second method).

Any help would be great .

Thanks
Bryan

[gerti67]

Hi bryanh,

I think doing a binary appended copy is not a very good idea - most video players might play them though as they are usually very fault tolerant and never show audio sync issues because of their large "buffer" possibilities.

Why don't you just "Merge" them with TMPGEnc's "MPEG Tools"?

Gerti

[bryanh]

believe it or not the second file will no play in TMPG. I get an Illegal Video stream error. And when I play it in the Windows Media Player I only get video and no sound. Obvously something is strange about the file (and this is with three different movies that I have been trying).

I ran bbinfo on the file and found the video stream is the first stream in the first file, but the second stream in the second file. Even thought the stream ID's were correct. This is what gave me the idea of demuxing each stream. Hmmm - gives me an idea - perhaps take the seperate video and audio streams and merge them with TMPG and THEN mux them with TMPG. Will have to give that a try. Either way it's a lot of work to do :)

Bryan