Joining .m2v files w/o problem (or, HDTV The Hard Way)

[CubDukat]

I recently picked up a FusionHDTVII card, and I have been trying to convert the season premiere of "ER" for the past week. After running the video through the HDTV-capable version of DVD2AVI, I first tried to load the .d2v file directly in to TMPGEnc Plus--where it proceeded to crash the program.

I was then forced to render the program down to a 720x480, multi-segmented AVI file, after which I batched each of them into TMPGEnc Plus. That left me with ten individual .m2v files, which I then attempted to merge using the MPEG Tools function. Unfortunately, they were all 4.1Mbit CBR files, and by the time the finished file was a rather large 8.0Mbit VBR file.

That was only part of the problem. The second part came when I attempted to mux it with the corrected AC3 track. When I burnt the resulting DVD in TMPGEnc DVD Author, the audio was grossly out of sync.

I am about to tear my hair out (and there's a lot to tear out) because this is way too complicated, I no longer have the original .tp file, and I need the space on my HD. If there is anyone who knows an easy, faster, and more foolproof way of making a DVD out of a HDTV transport stream, please let me know.

At least the title's in true 16:9 widescreen.

Oh, yeah, here's the tools I have at my disposal:

TMPGEnc Plus/TMPGEnc DVD AUthor (full versions)
HDTVtoMPEG2 (both 1.07 and 1.10)
DVD2AVI 1.83 (?) (The HDTV-capable one)
AviSynth 2.5
VistualDubMod/AC3/Nandub
bbtools
BeSweet GUI (part of Gordian Knot pack)
PicVideo MJPEG
AC3fix
AC3 Delay Corrector
bbMPEG (for some weird reason, it now quits when you try to mux a file)

[Nelson37]

Load your segmented AVI into Vdub and frameserve it to TMPGenc for one single file. Try doing audio and video in two seperate steps if doing both at once gives issues.

How did you resize the file, and what was the original resolution?

[Nelson37]

And how did you capture the AC-3 track? Or is that built-in to the fusion card?

[cstu11]

Is this any program available that can re-encode it without lowering the resolution to 720X480?

[BJ_M]

just demux the transport stream directly first ... you dont need dvd2avTs


demux with ][muxer or bbtools demux ..

load m2v file into tmpeg and resize and encode -- you can also do this with main concept or procoder or frame serve the m2v file ...


the ac3 file you would have demuxed above will then still be in sync ..

IF

you want to do a bunch of avi's in tmpgenc -- tmpgenc can encode all of them to one mpeg file for you automatically -- saving you a LOT of trouble ..

just name them

file00001.avi
file00002.avi
file00003.avi

and so forth and put them in the same directory (make sure option is on in tmpgenc settings) ....
load first avi above and tmpg will encode them all to one file -- you can do this also in cce and main concept (method though is different) ..