"program stream" mpeg file.This is new to me.Please help/enlighte

[Canon GL-2 Guy]

First,a brief introduction to the problem.I recently started a church video ministry whereby our main service is taped,edited on my computer and subsequently broadcast on local cable TV.I use an old edition of Adobe 6.5 which renders the project from the timeline,exporting it as a seperate audio .wav file and a MPEG-2 compliant video file.Therefore its already in an encoded state.Apparently I need to then recombine/"re-marry" these two with everything in perfect sync.I want to preserve quality of the encoding and to the extent possible not degrade it any further.

I asked the cable tv station what options were available and formats were acceptable in which to offer the finished product.

The following response was e-mailed to me by their executive director:

Copied and pasted:

Please submit your completed programs to us on DVD as a “program stream” .mpeg file (with video and audio combined). We can simply dump this on our server and playback directly."

I do not know exactly what is meant by the above and how to best go about it.

My question is how is this achieved so I can successfully comply with this request?What program would you reccommend by experience is user friendly and relatively easy to use?

All opinions,suggestions and advice welcomed.

Thanks so much in advance.

Bruce

[redwudz]

Well, (And I'm guessing here) they seem to want the video and audio in a single file. I'm also guessing they can handle MPEG-2 video with the audio muxed in as in a MPEG-2 file. You might likely be better to present it as an authored DVD as they would be sure to be able to play that. Audio should be MPEG-1 Layer2 at least, though I would convert the audio to AC3, 2 channel to be really compliant with most DVD players.

You would want to write the accurate playing time of the video on the DVD, along with the title and a reference number like the date, also put down the video format and the resolution.

For the audio, it may need some processing. Noise reduction for one, and normalizing to get an even output level. Maybe even some filtering to cut out very high and very low frequencies. That depends on their system and your source audio.

Apparently they aren't that particular, send them a sample file and see if they like it. If so, just do the rest exactly the same way and then they can easily set up their equipment.

I'm not an expert with this, others may have better information.

[Canon GL-2 Guy]

"MPEG-2 video with the audio muxed in as in a MPEG-2 file."

If I may ask.... how do I accomplish that?
Ever done it yourself?
What application would you or anyone else recccomend?

Thanks,
Bruce

[mats.hogberg]

Video and audio can be multiplexed with many apps. TMPGEnc is simple to use (MPEG Tools -> Simple multiplex). If you're not afraid of using your keyboard, mplex is a good (and free) command line tool for multiplexing mpg.

/Mats