Video Encoding

[bluewall21]

I have an MPEG 2 file that I want to convert to DivX, but VirtualDub says that it can't find video frames in the MPEG file. Should I be using another program to reencode the video? Or is there a way to fix this in VirtualDub?

 

[Nothinman]

I would be suspicious that the file isn't really MPEG2 or that it's damaged in some way.

 

[bluewall21]

Maybe. Whats a good MPEG 2 encoder (free), then?

 

[oog]

In your original post you said you have an MPEG 2 file. Then you ask what's a good MPEG 2 encoder. Why do you need an encoder when the file is already an MPEG 2 file?

 

[bdjohnson]

VirtualDubMod

 

[monzie]

VirtualDub (standard) DOES NOT UNDERSTAND MPEG/MPEG2 files!

You need to frame serve the files first (make a dummy AVI if you like).

Try downloading DVD2SVCD as it contains all the APPS you require (dvd2avi, avisynth, BeSweet etc).

 

[Bootprint]

vidomi

 

[bluewall21]

Originally posted by: oog
In your original post you said you have an MPEG 2 file. Then you ask what's a good MPEG 2 encoder. Why do you need an encoder when the file is already an MPEG 2 file?

Only because the next poster says that the MPEG2 file may be bad, and it was not a popular encoder in the first place, but it has worked for me in the past. Thanks for the suggestions.

 

[bluewall21]

Vidomi encodes it, but the three minute video is still more than 100 megabytes. Is this an expected file size? I thought it wuld be smaller.

 

[biostud]

XMPEG

 

[Nothinman]

Only because the next poster says that the MPEG2 file may be bad, and it was not a popular encoder in the first place, but it has worked for me in the past. Thanks for the suggestions.

My post was a guess, I thought VirtualDub handled MPEG(2) files. But it seems I'm wrong, I havn't used it in quite a while since I do all my transcoding in Linux and mencoder and transcode both support MPEG(2) files just fine.