Video Recording/Playback/Editing/Converting/etc.

bmwracer wrote:
It's like riding a bike.

Yeah, but I didn't need to have so many instructions on how to ride a bike saved on my computer/on my LJ. :P

sadacori wrote:Yeah, but I didn't need to have so many instructions on how to ride a bike saved on my computer/on my LJ. :P

Did you have instructions on your computer when you learned how to ride a bike?

If not, then you can't make the comparison. :P

Hardsubbing Shukan Maki Yoko now.... :victory:

Hardsubbing the final episode (13) of Shukan Maki Yoko... :victory:

Done authoring Shukan Maki Yoko... :victory:

Hello folks! Can anyone recommend me a good and free mpeg to avi converter? I was going to get TMPGEnc, but I just realized that it only had a 14-day free trial period.

sadacori wrote:Hello folks! Can anyone recommend me a good and free mpeg to avi converter? I was going to get TMPGEnc, but I just realized that it only had a 14-day free trial period.

MPEG to AVI?

AutoGK: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/AutoGK

bmwracer wrote:
MPEG to AVI?

AutoGK: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/AutoGK

Awesome! Thanks for the link! I'll probably post my results once I get a chance to use it. :D

bmwracer wrote:Done authoring Shukan Maki Yoko... :victory:

2 DVD's?

Open-source converter: I haven't tried it yet, but apparently will convert .mkv (Matroska) to .avi - http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/

Anime Dad wrote:Open-source converter: I haven't tried it yet, but apparently will convert .mkv (Matroska) to .avi - http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/

Thanks, I'll try this out, my dvd player can't handle .mkv so this will come in handy.

Anime Dad wrote:Open-source converter: I haven't tried it yet, but apparently will convert .mkv (Matroska) to .avi - http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/

I'm sure videohelp.com has others. :victory:

bmwracer wrote:
I'm sure videohelp.com has others. :victory:

Probably :) But it's worth a try, ne?

Anime Dad wrote:Probably :) But it's worth a try, ne?

From doing a quick read at videohelp.com, it appears that mkv is just a another container for audio and video, just like avi... So one should be able to use VirtualDubMod to extract and rename the audio and video components...

I'll try that when I get home. :victory:

bmwracer wrote:
From doing a quick read at videohelp.com, it appears that mkv is just a another container for audio and video, just like avi... So one should be able to use VirtualDubMod to extract and rename the audio and video components...

I'll try that when I get home. :victory:

If that doesn't work, try MKVtoolnix: You can extract the streams with that.

bmwracer wrote:
MPEG to AVI?

AutoGK: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/AutoGK

I hate to bump this topic up all the time since it's usually because I have a problem.

Anyway, I tried AutoGK several times and it opens up VirtualDubMod 1.5.4.1. After a while, it says "Video compression error: The source image format is not acceptable. (error code -2)" and the avi fails. I wonder if the problem is that it needed to be a "mpg to avi" NOT "mpeg to avi" converter. :sweat:

Here is the log of what happened if this helps:

[11/8/2008 12:00:53 PM] AutoGK 2.45
[11/8/2008 12:00:53 PM] OS: Windows Vista (6.0.6001).2
[11/8/2008 12:00:53 PM] Job started.
[11/8/2008 12:00:53 PM] Input file: C:\Users\cori\files\1.mpg
[11/8/2008 12:00:53 PM] Output file: C:\Users\cori\files\1.avi
[11/8/2008 12:00:53 PM] Output codec: DivX
[11/8/2008 12:00:53 PM] Audio 1: Audio Stream 0 AC3
[11/8/2008 12:00:53 PM] Subtitles: none
[11/8/2008 12:00:53 PM] Format: AVI
[11/8/2008 12:00:53 PM] Target size: 698Mb
[11/8/2008 12:00:53 PM] Audio 1 settings: Auto
[11/8/2008 12:00:53 PM] Started encoding.
[11/8/2008 12:00:53 PM] Demuxing and indexing.
[11/8/2008 12:01:29 PM] Processing file: C:\Users\cori\files\1.mpg
[11/8/2008 12:01:29 PM] Source resolution: 720x480
[11/8/2008 12:01:29 PM] Found NTSC source.
[11/8/2008 12:01:29 PM] Source aspect ratio: 4:3
[11/8/2008 12:01:29 PM] Analyzing source.
[11/8/2008 12:04:58 PM] Source is considered to be interlaced.
[11/8/2008 12:04:58 PM] Output will contain 81098 frames
[11/8/2008 12:04:58 PM] Decoding audio.
[11/8/2008 12:05:36 PM] Normalizing audio.
[11/8/2008 12:05:42 PM] Encoding audio.
[11/8/2008 12:10:12 PM] Audio1 size: 36,735,192 bytes (35.03 Mb)
[11/8/2008 12:10:12 PM] Overhead: 5,233,792 bytes (4.99 Mb)
[11/8/2008 12:10:12 PM] Video size: 689,937,064 bytes (657.98 Mb)
[11/8/2008 12:10:12 PM] Target bitrate is: 2040kbps
[11/8/2008 12:10:12 PM] Running compressibility test.
[11/8/2008 12:22:26 PM] Duration was: 12 minutes 14 seconds
[11/8/2008 12:22:26 PM] Speed was: 5.52 fps.
*************************************
EXCEPTION: Open avi failed.
*************************************
[11/8/2008 12:22:26 PM] Job finished. Total time: 21 minutes 33 seconds


I wonder why this is such a difficult process when a program like vob2mpg is such an easy one that doesn't need all these installations and use of different programs that AutoGK does.

sadacori wrote:I hate to bump this topic up all the time since it's usually because I have a problem.

Anyway, I tried AutoGK several times and it opens up VirtualDubMod 1.5.4.1. After a while, it says "Video compression error: The source image format is not acceptable. (error code -2)" and the avi fails. I wonder if the problem is that it needed to be a "mpg to avi" NOT "mpeg to avi" converter. :sweat:

MPG and MPEG are the same. :sweat:

Which compression are you using? xViD or DivX?

Try one or the other to see if it works.[/quote]

I wonder why this is such a difficult process when a program like vob2mpg is such an easy one that doesn't need all these installations and use of different programs that AutoGK does.

That's because different people wrote those programs based on their needs and they can't test every possible scenario that a user encounters.

Your bad luck with software just amazes me. :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:MPG and MPEG are the same. Sweat

Which compression are you using? xViD or DivX?

Try one or the other to see if it works.

I thought it was the same, but when I saw that only "mpeg" was listed, I got confused. :(

I was using DivX, so I'll try to use xViD instead.

That's because different people wrote those programs based on their needs and they can't test every possible scenario that a user encounters.

Your bad luck with software just amazes me. :sweat:

I think it's half bad luck and half stupidity. :shamefulcry:

Thanks for your help, beem!! :D I tried the xViD instead and it worked! :dancing: Only gripe I have is that it took 1 hour, 12 minutes and 28 seconds, but I guess I can't complain since it did what I wanted it to do. Or maybe I should make it lower quality (I had made it 700 mb for a 45 minute show) so it should hopefully take a shorter time to convert.

sadacori wrote:Thanks for your help, beem!! :D I tried the xViD instead and it worked! :dancing: Only gripe I have is that it took 1 hour, 12 minutes and 28 seconds, but I guess I can't complain since it did what I wanted it to do. Or maybe I should make it lower quality (I had made it 700 mb for a 45 minute show) so it should hopefully take a shorter time to convert.

Which PC did you run it on?

If you run the program on a faster PC, you'll get faster conversions.