Splitting the video

[jeffnguyen23]

Hi all,

I converted a music DVD to 2 SVCDs and it went all well but just a small problem. The first disc ends just 40 secs before one of the songs ends so the second disc starts at the last 40 secs of that song. Is there anyway that I can change so that the first disc would end 40 secs later, like, change a value in the "bbMPEG Movie Settings1.ini" file and run the Recover from "Muxing and Cutting"?

Thanks in advance!

[guru1968]

For this purpose the 'manual frame selection' was introduced, it opens a preview window after having created the DVD2AVI project, letting YOU decide, what to put on the first disc and what to put on the second disc by manually setting the CD-change position...

So far, so good - this is perfect You may think now, exactly this is solving all my problems...
well, not really! - sad fact is, that this option does not work :(
You may read this thread (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=76265) or that thread (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=76530) about this issue...

You may can overcome the access violation by manually cutting the audio for the second disc after the access violation, setting the project position to e.g. 96 and resume the D2S project just AFTER the audio encoding...
(But You should know how to use BeSweet/BeSplit manually then)

Or--maybe--You will NOT have the access violation, but I would bet that you will...

Good Luck
guru

[jeffnguyen23]

Thanks for the reply, guru1968!

I'm just a newbie so bare with me here. It seems to be more complicated than I thought I would be. I still have the mpv and the audio files so I wouldn't want and shouldn't have to re-run the encoding process again just to fix that problem, right? I don't know how to use BeSweet/BeSplit manually but if there is no other easy way around it then, I guess, I'll just have to learn BeSweet. BTW, is there any difference if I use TMPGEnc's mpeg tools instead of BeSweet to multiplex/cut the mpg file? I know TMPGEnc well enough to get this task done though.

Thanks!

[guru1968]

TMPGEnc's mpeg-tools are only cutting at GOP boundaries - that may not be close enough to the position you want or need the split to be...

But if You have TMPEnc and want a frame-presize cutting and you furthermore have the (complete) separate video- and audio-stream at hand, you may try 'cuttermaran' for just this (cutting)!

The link to this fantastic tool (where was it, when I needed it so long ago... :) you'll find here in doom's download section...
download here (http://www.doom9.org/Soft21/DigiTV/Cuttermaran%201.57.zip)

It's really, really easy with a preview window, and if you have TMPG installed you even have the option to split at any position (TMPG encodes then only the broken GOPs).

After you have the split parts you either can let D2S resume after video encoding, just before multiplexing, or do this by hand and resume before SVCD-authoring or also do this by hand (via nero is quite okay, but you may loose the chapter points then or need to set them manually, too).


OR -maybe- on your system, in your environment, D2S is working okay and even with active frame-selection EVERYTHING works, who knows!?
-- If I where you, I would give it a try -- (but I would be happy to hear whether this worked!)


gr33tz,
guru

[jeffnguyen23]

Hi guru1968,

I tried cuttermaran but somehow it didn't work. The audio was chopped way shorter than the video.

Anyway, I got it fixed now. I increased the "maxFileSize" value in "bbMPEG Movie Settings1.ini", (I could have tried the "muxStopTime" but I'll do it later) then copied it to the bbMPEG folder, renamed it to default.ini, then ran this command line

"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\bbMPEG\RunbbMPEG.exe" "E:\Video\Dvd2Svcd\bbMPEG_Muxed_File.mpg"

I looked at the mgp file and happily saw it ended just where I wanted.

For the second CD, I changed the "muxStartTime" (in secs) in the bbMPEG's ini file to where I wanted it to start and it was perfect.

I had to create the bin/cue files with VCDEasy and manually adding all the chapter points but that I can do so...

I'll try "active frame-selection" when I have time and I'll let you know if it worked or not.

Anyway, thanks for your time and effort!