AVerTV DVB-T Capturing Problems.

[flopitout77]

i recently bought this card and i am happy with it.

but when i capture a video i cant get it to load in TMPGEnc. i take the mpg file and turn it into a d2v file using dvd2avi and then when i try to load it into TMPGEnc i get an error telling me that the file is unsupported or can not open.

can some1 help?

thanx

Floppy

[FulciLives]

i recently bought this card and i am happy with it.

but when i capture a video i cant get it to load in TMPGEnc. i take the mpg file and turn it into a d2v file using dvd2avi and then when i try to load it into TMPGEnc i get an error telling me that the file is unsupported or can not open.

can some1 help?

thanx

Floppy

Exactly what AverMedia card do you have?

And what format are you capturing too?

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

P.S.
Let me add this ... it sounds like you are capturing direct to MPEG-2 but that is not the format to capture too if you need to re-encode in TMPGEnc Plus instead you should capture to AVI using MJPEG like PICVideo MJPEG or HuffyUV

[flopitout77]

its a AVerTV DVB-T and it records in MPEG2 format.

[FulciLives]

its a AVerTV DVB-T and it records in MPEG2 format.

Well that must be something new because I'm somewhat familiar with the AverTV products but never heard of that one.

If it only does MPEG-2 then I guess you are stuck doing MPEG-2 but if so then why use TMPGEnc Plus when you already have an MPEG-2 file?

I mean TMPGEnc Plus is a MPEG-1/MPEG-2 encoder.

So you see my confusion?

In other words ... there might be a better way to do whatever it is you are trying to do.

But you aren't giving many details as to what you are trying to do. So who can help?

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[ronnylov]

A DVB-T card captures the digital video broadcast - terrestial signal which is used in some European countries. The signal is sent as an mpeg2 encoded transport stream which is "captured" or copied directly to the hard drive when recording with a DVB-T card. So it's not correct to say it is better to capture as avi because it captures the raw mpeg-2 format directly (so any conversion would not gain in quality).

Because of the raw copying of the broadcasted stream the bitrate and the format will be fixed to what is sent on air. Sometimes you may want to convert it to other resolution or bitrate (SVCD or DVD compliance reasons) or to VCD and then TMPGEnc is a nice tool. So it is similar to DVD conversion, you have a fixed mpeg2 format you may want to convert to something else. So the conversion process is more similar to a DVD-rip than normal analogue capturing.

What I do with my DVB-C card (digital cable card) is following.
Open the recorded file with PVAStrumento and demux/fix the signal to mpv video and mpa audio.

Open the mpv file in DVD2AVI and create d2v. Open the d2v and the mpa as source files in TMPGEnc and encode to whatever format you want.

But often I can use the mpv and mpa streams directly and import to a DVD Authoring program like dvdlab and create a DVD. The quality is identical with the broadcasted signal because the streams are copied rather than captured.

Check out doom9's DVB guide: http://www.doom9.org/DigiTV/dvbs-soft.htm

[Champion_R]

i recently bought this card and i am happy with it.

but when i capture a video i cant get it to load in TMPGEnc. i take the mpg file and turn it into a d2v file using dvd2avi and then when i try to load it into TMPGEnc i get an error telling me that the file is unsupported or can not open.

can some1 help?

thanx

Floppy

If you really want to recompress it, try AVIsynth with the MPEG2 plugin. Also bear in mind that you might wanna parse the captured file through an app like PVAStrumento or ProjectX to correct any errors in the broadcast and to make the file DVD compliant.

[flopitout77]

i updated my version of TMPGenc and it fixed my problem. it must have been a bug in the old prog.

thanx