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acidman
9th February 2005, 23:14
Anyone minds to explain to me how to do mpeg to avi conversion? I am a noob on this things :confused:
Cyberia
9th February 2005, 23:57
This is a question better asked in the Newbies forum. This forum is related to a specific program (DVD2AVI) and it's variants.

I will move the thread, so you don't have to retype it. I'm the nice one :)
Guest
10th February 2005, 00:02
@Cyberia

I resemble that inferration. :p

Anyway, don't newbies know about cut and paste?
Guest
10th February 2005, 00:06
@acidman

Here's one approach. I assume you mean MPEG2. Get DGMPGDec from:

http://neuron2.net/fixd2v/decodefix.html

Grab the 1.2.0 RC3 version. Also get the QuickStart guide from the 1.0.12 version. That will get your video into VirtualDub and your audio in a separate file. Then you load the audio and save the final result as an AVI. That is the broad brush description. If you start with that and post when and if you run into a problem, we can help you. If you are after some kind of "one-click solution", maybe someone else can suggest something for you.

If it is MPEG2 in a single file and does not have pulldown, you can open it directly in fccHandler's version of VirtualDub called VirtualDub MPEG2.
acidman
10th February 2005, 15:19
The movie is in a "xxxx.dat" form but when i play the movie on the WinDVD4 he tels me that is an mpeg file.
It's because of this that the DGIndex shows the error message "No data. Check your PIDS" and can't convert to avi :angry:
Guest
10th February 2005, 18:53
Where did this *.dat file come from? What generated it?

What happens when you do raw pid detection?
Nick
10th February 2005, 20:17
Sounds like a VCD file.
VCDEasy and VCDGear are softwares with the tools to convert this to a standard MPEG file.
Guest
10th February 2005, 21:32
Is that MPEG1? If so, you won't have any luck with DGMPGDec, which currently supports only MPEG2.
acidman
11th February 2005, 15:38
Originally posted by Nick
Sounds like a VCD file.
VCDEasy and VCDGear are softwares with the tools to convert this to a standard MPEG file.
Tanks now the movie is in mpeg form but is making the same error in the
DGMPGDec
Guest
11th February 2005, 16:03
Put a portion of the file on my FTP server (see below). Up to several hundred MB is fine. Then notify me here.
len0x
11th February 2005, 16:35
DAT files are always VCD mpeg1 ones... (SVCD uses proper *.mpg convention).
Guest
11th February 2005, 20:25
Well, I told him that and he's still acting as if it is MPEG2, so I thought I'll get his file and tell him once and for all whether it is 1 or 2.

But you're right, he probably didn't reencode to MPEG2.

So acidman, you can't use DGMPGDec on MPEG1 files. But you can open them directly in VirtualDub. Have you tried?