Recovery - Some help required

[pavleiz]

Hello guys,
I tried to make a SVCD out of 1h35Min. After a very long encoding it got stuck during BBMpeg, during audio muxing. After some checking I found out that sometime during the extraction of the audio only 19mins were extracted. I wanted to recover and than I made a mistake - trying to recover from audio extracting my recovery file (.d2s) got changed. Later I used AudioDub to extract the WAV file and converted it to MP2. But than when I wanted to recover starting at Cutting and Multiplexing - This option was not available at the recovery menu.
So here's where I stay now:
1. I have a 1.5G MPV file converted by TMPEGENC.
2. I have the extracted and converted audio file.
I want to continue the process from the muxing and cutting point - since running BBMPEG from here gives me half a movie. I don't know haw to arrange the second half and how to join the DVD2SVCD process again.
Any help would be appriciated.
To those who have doubts, yes, I am kind of a newbe (one month experience).
Thanks

[desen]

Hi pavleiz!
Wellcome to the forum.

First of all, make sure that you have read read the guides and that you have all the settings in D2S right. (that will say right for your needs)
I assume that you still have the vobfiles that you ripped on your HD. If so my advise would be that you go to the DVD rip tab in DVD2SVCD and uncheck "Activate DVD ripping", then go to conversion tab locate your ifo file then select GO and choose "Start Conversion" and "do" the movie allover again.

Cheers

[pavleiz]

desen,
My source is DivX file and not DVD. (I'm doing AVI2SVCD).
The d2s was changed when I started recovery and got it all mixed up.
What should I do to start recovery from the cutting and muxing stage?
Thanks

[Holomatrix]

It might be to complicated for you to re-write the d2s file, but why can't you fire up avi2mpg2.exe (bbMpeg) manually and mux to two files (Video/Audio) together. I don't understand what you meen by "since running BBMPEG from here gives me half a movie" - do you meen running bbMpeg from the DVD2SVCD recovery dropdown?

[pavleiz]

Holomatrix,
What I mean is that the movie is to long for 1 CD. That means that when I run the bbmpeg manualy it cuts the movie at half. I don't know how to mux the second half.
Do you know?

[Holomatrix]

When you load the two files in bbMpeg and set Max size in the General Settings tab to 795 MG it will create TWO muxed files. No need to worry about the second half, it's already created. bbmpeg1.mpg and bbmpeg2.mpg automatically created by bbmpeg.

[pavleiz]

Holomatrix,
Can you tell me the exact command line and the ini file I need to set up for this?

[Holomatrix]

No command line. Use the GUI (AVI2mpg2.exe) in your bbmpeg folder. Run AVI2MPG2, click Start Encoding, click Settings, then select your options plus what I mentioned above.

[pavleiz]

Hey Holomatrix,
I'm almost there. The only problem I have is that for some reason it will not fit into 2 CD's. I see two posible reasons for it:
1. I used CQ 60 for a 1:35 long movie. It maybe two long.
2. The audio extracted is to "good".
My output is 3 cd's. I must contain it into 2.
My questions are: How can I extract the audio directly using the DVD2SVCD S/W, and not video dub? Is there a way to contain this movie in 2 cd's?
Thanks

[Holomatrix]

You can just run DVD2SVCD from scratch but selecting a different output folder, decrease the Audio bitrate to maybe 128 or 96 and then close DVD2SVCD once the Audio conversion to mp2 is finished. Then remux your original mpg and the newly created mp2. Your new mp2 should probably be under 90meg. Should only take you 30 min to complete. Let me know if that works.

[pavleiz]

Hello,
Update - I tried to re-extract the audio but it extracts only 19 minutes, again.
How can I make 2 cds out of this 1.5G mpv file and 138M Mp2 audio file?

[Holomatrix]

We'll, get the Besweet GUI (or do it manually) and see if you can downsample the audio bitrate. Haven't tried it but that would be your next thing to do. To try and lower the file size.

[Holomatrix]

Actually, I was just thinking. (OH OH :)) If you live in a place where you can get 90min CDR's, see if your player will handle them and just cut the movie at 895 meg then you shouldn't have a problem fiting the movie on two cd's.