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mpeg2 to dvd-r question
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gpeccary
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1. December 2004 @ 16:40 |
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I have some mpeg2 video that I would like to burn with Toast to make a regular DVD for playing in a standard player. I have the usual suite of vid tools like ffmpegx and such, but don't know what format to convert them to. Can I use the "Save As" in Quicktime to save them as QT mov files and then burn from there?
Any directions to FAQ's or procedures, or other info is appreciated. I do a lot of audio work but now that I am dabbling in some video conversion I am adrift.
Thanks!
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Londor
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2. December 2004 @ 00:55 |
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Mpeg2 is DVD video.
1. In Toast select the "Video" tab and choose "DVD-Video" under the "Advanced" tab on the Disc Settings drawer (to open it click on the disc title).
2. Drag your video file/s onto the Toast window.
3 .If you drag several video files you may want to tick "Auto-play items" for them to play seamlessly.
4. If you want a menu click on "Create DVD Menu".
5. Click on the "Red" button.
Because you are using mpeg2 files Toast should not need to re-encode the video. If you were using other format Toast would encode it to mpeg2 before burning (in this case choose between "standard" (faster encoding speed) or "high" on the "Video Quality" pop-up menu).
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gpeccary
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2. December 2004 @ 12:52 |
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That was my first inclination and it doesn't work. I'll keep looking for info. Thanks.
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5. December 2004 @ 15:45 |
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You can also look for an app called "sizzle."
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gpeccary
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7. December 2004 @ 09:57 |
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I'm still trying to work some bugs out. Do you have any suggestions for an app that will give me the particulars for a mpeg video file, or other video file. It seems like you can have a lot of different file types that all have the same extension. Things like resolution, interlacing, audio stream, format... they don't seem to have any direct correlation to the file extension.
I am finding that converting video to mpeg4 is making some of the files play nice with Toast, but I would really like to know more about the nuts and bolts.
Also, I'm looking but I don't see anything in the way of detailed documentation for Toast that tells me what formats it will burn to DVD vd VCD and any other technical type of information. It seems like they want it to be so dumbed down that you have to use trial and error to figure it out.
Again, Thanks for all of the help.
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7. December 2004 @ 10:04 |
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Load it up in quicktime and select "get movie properties." That will tell you some. FFmpegX, 42 and many other apps may help too.
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Londor
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7. December 2004 @ 10:12 |
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If you can open the movie in QT just cliclk on "Window" in the
menu bar and select "Show Movie Info".
If you open it with VLC click as well on "Window" and select
"Info".
Or if you open it in ffmpegX it will tell you above the "Open"
button all the movie info.
EDIT: MG, you type faster than me.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 7. December 2004 @ 10:14
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8. December 2004 @ 10:51 |
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Great minds think alike eh? :-)
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gerlep
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9. December 2004 @ 07:06 |
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Hi pretty much trying to do the same thing. I am currently burning a 140MB AVI file using Toast. The process is slow and is currently encoding, been going for well over 2 hours now. A couple of times I have been thrown up with a Quicktime alert sign saying that it is missing a component. The toast process continues, not sure what I will get at the end of it. However can anyone tell me from experience what might the component I am lacking and how do I get to get round this laborious process? Thanks.
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9. December 2004 @ 07:34 |
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The missing component would most likely be the "codec."
Which is short for code/decode.
If you proceed without it, my guess is that your final product
will be a file with black video. If you have video then you
wont have audio as the missing codec would be the audio
coded. Worst case you have neither!
I usually start toast on those jobs when I go to bed because
they take so long.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 9. December 2004 @ 07:35
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gerlep
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9. December 2004 @ 07:50 |
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thx for getting back mediaguru. In an ideal world when I drag my AVI files to the toast window, should I be able to see them playing in the small preview windows? I have not been able to do this thus far. Secondly, how does one get these missing components? From my understanding I am trying to get the file to become MPEG2, how do I achieve this?
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Londor
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9. December 2004 @ 07:50 |
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ffmpegX is way faster than Toast for these things. Use the "DVD ffmpeg", "DVD-lo" or "DVD mpeg2enc" quick preset. You will end up with a VIDEO_TS folder that you can burn using Toast.
If a codec is missing find out which one it is looking at the movie info and download it. Sometimes it is difficult finding old codecs though.
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gerlep
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9. December 2004 @ 08:01 |
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Please excuse my ignorance Londor, but are the following ffmpegX DVD ffmpeg", "DVD-lo" or "DVD mpeg2enc" pieces of kit to download, which will help me do this process or are they options available in the toast software?
Secondly, when I have checked the movie info, it usually just tells me that the AVI is a DIvX version, does not tell me what codec is amiss. Thx for your help.
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9. December 2004 @ 08:09 |
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Londor
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9. December 2004 @ 08:12 |
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gerlep
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9. December 2004 @ 09:52 |
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Londor
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9. December 2004 @ 10:15 |
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To download the "mpeg2enc" component go here
http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/MacOS/
Scroll down until you see "mpeg2enc" written in blue. Press the option key (the one that says "alt") at the same time that you click on it. One file will be downloaded to your desktop. Now in the ffmpegX screen click on locate and navigate to this file.
With the other file is the same once you have dowloaded it just click on locate and navigate to it.
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gerlep
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9. December 2004 @ 13:26 |
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all seems to be up and running as far as the program is concerned thank you for your help. I'm a bit stuck at the next point, though, there are so many options in the drop boxes, not sure if I should be encoding from to, is there an easy to use guide somewhere I;ve done a google and not really getting what I need. basically the AVI's that I have are divX, and i want to be able to read them on DVD. Now I believe that the FFMPegx prog will allow me to create a VIDEO_TS folder, and I know where to go from there, what are the correct settings to get to that stage?
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Londor
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9. December 2004 @ 13:50 |
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As I said earlier if you do not know how to fine tune it just use the quick presets.
Open your AVI file, choose a destination for the output, select "DVD ffmpeg", "DVD-lo" or "DVD mpeg2enc" in "Quick Presets", select PAL or NTSC and click on "encode".
In the ffmpegX homepage you can find all the documentation you need (check in the left hand side of the window).
http://homepage.mac.com/major4/
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gerlep
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9. December 2004 @ 14:27 |
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You have been very helpful, let you know how I go. As a matter of interest how long does say a 30min clip take to render?
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gerlep
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10. December 2004 @ 02:34 |
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The FFMPEGX prog worked a treat and the quality was quite good too. Thx for your help. I am using the DATA tab in Toast as you would do with a Ripped DVD and that was successful. The one thing I haven't worked out though, is that I tried to drag two separate converted AVI files with the hope that I could see two items as in a menu on the DVD, but could only play one, and it played as soon as launched. ie: there was no menu. How do I go about creating that? So I can access a menu and i see 2 or 3 or even 4 differents shows to watch?
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10. December 2004 @ 07:09 |
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In that case you would select the video tab and drop your video files on the toast window. Over to your left you'd select VCD or dvd and there's a button that says something like "create menu." Select that.
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gerlep
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10. December 2004 @ 08:57 |
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Yeah for once i got the jump on you :-) and tried that and it worked a treat, and the encoding this time took less than 15 minutes. Not sure if you have achieved this yourself, but I get the feeling that even though each AVI file is around 140MB and I am burining them onto a 4.7GB disc, that in theory I should be able to get a good few of these on, would that be right?
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10. December 2004 @ 09:04 |
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That question will depend on the acutal TIME of the files...
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gpeccary
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11. December 2004 @ 03:42 |
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the files that i am having a prob with now are:
mpeg2 muxed 480x360 1600kbps
audio: mp2 44.1khz 224kbps
the files that I have that work are mpeg1 files
when I ran it through ffmpegx to make a dvd ts folder everything worked but i got audio and no vid. when i ran it through diva to make a mpeg4 mov out of it i got vid with no audio.
any ideas?
thanks
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