DivX to MPEG2

[sky_dave]

Hi everyone,
I wanna know...what kind of software to convert AVI (from DivX) to MPEG2 (DVD Format) ???
If i use TMPGEnc, the audio can not be hear (just blank!)
If i use Adobe Premiere, it just same as i use TMPGEnc
Then I found the longest and slowest way....that i used to convert that AVI (DivX) to AVI (DivX) "again!" using Dr.DivX, and then I used TMPGEnc, the result can make me satisfy, but.....it was slow....slow...slow...and more slow....cause I must take a double convert.
Please...help me...why it can be? What kind of software that i used to have?
Thanx.

[echooff]

The internal audio encoder in Tmpgenc is crap. There are 2 ways around it. I use vdub to make a direct stream copy of the avi with no audio and encode it with Tmpgenc. I extract the audio using vdub full processing save as wav, and used to encode it with BeSweet to mp2. I now use the ac3 encoder that is offered from pegasys $29.00. It makes 2 channel ac3 easily and quickly. if the avi already has ac3 demux with vdubmod and correct the header with besliced. It can then be used directly in your dvd authoring prog.

[sky_dave]

thanx to echooff,
so, what's the VDUB?
where i can find that software?
is that freeware or i must buy it?
thanx a lot :)

[jggimi]

Vdub = Virtual Dub, or one of it's variants. http://www.doom9.org/software.htm

[JaTeMaTec]

Originally posted by sky_dave
thanx to echooff,
so, what's the VDUB?
where i can find that software?
is that freeware or i must buy it?
thanx a lot :)

VirtualDub (VDub) is completely free and can be downloaded from :
http://www.virtualdub.org/
- Version 1.5.10.1 is latest!

If you read there the documentation & FAQ, you'll understand much more about AVI's and with VDub you can Rip (Record from TV Card / Camera etc) & Convert AVI-files from format to another using all FourCC codecs that you have installed (the old way to enumerate them) or then use VFW (Video for Windows) interface to get more sophisticated AVI-output.

I think that the main problem in your AVI-File is, that it is not interlaced (aka Video & Audio Streamed as pairing with audio synced to video or vice versa) - it must be old-formatted non-interlaced version, where the Video stream comes first and Audio there after...
(And if they are not in sync, TMPHEnc can really drop the whole audio off - you should see it immediately if you use the wizard: the Video stream opens, but in audio section there reads: no source audio available)

With VirtualDub you can convert very fast even poor avi-files to better format (just some practice to get most out / tweak processor & buffers etc in settings)

/Edit If Your AVI is big in size, it's better to convert it first to XviD, DivX or 3ivx AVI with good ratio (or just to raw mode without filters if you have 50Gig++ of HD :) ) and then use TMPGEnc to make NTSC or PAL compliant MPEG-2 file out of it.

A bit slow job flow, but quite a rare case to get TMPGEnc not to do the work straight though...I have not found that phenomen with my VFAPI-Filters - AVI2(OpenDML) File Reader, merely with 'AVI VFW compatibility reader' enabled - I have disabled that one with my AVI's.!

Just give 'him' a try....

JaTeMaTec