I *am* a newbie at this :)

[piglet]

After the help I have gotten here, I have managed to burn a few movies on a disc and actually be able to play them in my standalone dvd player
But those were small movies, that wasn't an avi file from the beginning. Now I have downloaded some movies (avi in divx quality), and after running them in tmpgenc, I end up with files that can't fit one cd.. Avi file was around 700 megs and I end up with a file (to burn in nero) that is much larger.
What do I do now ? I split them up in 2-3 cd's or did I do something wrong, when I ran the file in tmpgenc?
And if so, how do I split them up?

Sorry, if this is a bit too 'newbie', just trying to get the hang of things

Piglet

[timmy_boi]

lol yea i remember back in DA day i was totaly stupid about this humm i havent tried spiting movies myself

but i think there is a tutorial in this site that shows how and try using the search commands in the forums

[gambit32]

There is a tutorial on here. When you know that your file is going to be to big for one CD, it's best to split/cut the file as you encode. This way you avoid synch issues.

[piglet]

Ok.. so it's not wrong that a 700 meg divx movie ends up being much larger when converting it so it can be burned as a vcd in nero ?
Seems to loose some quality in the proces too, but I guess that's normal

[Graham Meredith]

DiVX is fairly highly compressed, meaning a lot of info is thrown away to make it small, so it is a "lossy" compression. When you convert it back to a normal AVI, or to mpg, the program has to rebuild the data, and if it isnt there, it makes a best "guess" as to what was missing. This results in the quality appearing worse. This is normal. There are sometimes part remedies, such as using smooth and noise filters during re-encoding to mpg that you can do to help it, but basically you're stuck with what you get from the DiVX losses.

Regarding splitting large files, you can use VirtualDub to split it. The quickest and most lossless way is opening it in VirtualDub, choose the part of the movie for disk 1 by DELETING the parts you don't want (this is not acually REAL deleting - your whole original AVI will still be intact), so your left with what you DO want. Then FRAMESERVE this edited file to TMPEGEnc encoder for processing on the fly to mpg. When finished, reload the original DivX AVI again in Virtualdub, trim and repeat for disk 2, etc.

Graham

[piglet]

ok.. thx a lot for the info.
I actually think I got it this time

Piglet

[Vejita-sama]

You can encode one huge MPEG file and then cut it, but that's a pain IMHO. Better to just encode 2-3 smaller MPEGs.

Under TMPGenc choose settings (from bottom right menu). Click on advance. Then double click on source range. If you are using the standard VCD template then 1min=10MB, if you're making a xVCD use a bitrate calculator to determine where to cut. Anyway, select the start and stop frames you want. Then go back to the main TMPGenc screen choose 'save project.'

Then go back to 'source range' back where you stopped the start and pick a new end frame. Give the output file a new name, and choose 'save project.'

When you have all your projects set. Choose file | batch encode. Add all your projects and run. You can also use batch encode to setup multiple encodes when you go to bed, leave for work, etc. etc.

This is much easier on your HD, as cutting a MPEG creates a new one and does take some time.