De-MUXer for DV or will CinemaCraft Encode from DV type 1

[ric499]

Hi,

I've finally got a pretty good system for encoding things using VirtualDub and TMPEGenc. Unfortunately neither of these can deal with DV audio. The commercial products that do deal with it have really lousy MPEG encoders qualitywise. I've tried using one of them to trascode the DV into a normal AVI file first, but so far have had no luck creating a useable AVI file. The ideal solution would be to find a deMUXer that worked with DV type 1. My second choice would be to finally pony up the money to get the CinemaCraft encoder, IF IT WORKS WITH DV. I can't seem to find out anywere if it does though. Any one here using it know????

Thanks!
Ric

[yg1968]

Can't you just capture in DV2 and use TMPGEnc.

You can capture in DV2, using this freeware program DVIO,

http://www.carr-engineering.com/dvio.htm

[DVWannaB]

Hi,

I've finally got a pretty good system for encoding things using VirtualDub and TMPEGenc. Unfortunately neither of these can deal with DV audio. The commercial products that do deal with it have really lousy MPEG encoders qualitywise. I've tried using one of them to trascode the DV into a normal AVI file first, but so far have had no luck creating a useable AVI file. The ideal solution would be to find a deMUXer that worked with DV type 1. My second choice would be to finally pony up the money to get the CinemaCraft encoder, IF IT WORKS WITH DV. I can't seem to find out anywere if it does though. Any one here using it know????

Thanks!
Ric

TMPEG does accept DV type 1 audio stream. If your problem is the encoded audio stream in TMPEG, then I would suggest using another tool called tooLame. It works with TMPEG. TMPEG encodes the video and tooLame does the audio portion.

Or try using Scenalyzer ($33 US) to capture DV type 2. Many think it is the best all-round AVI capture tool around. It even has a nice 2/4GB work-around. I believe AVI I/O ($25 US) also captures DV type 2 (not sure).

[mb1]

Actual versions of CCE support DV Type1 and DV Type2 and filesizes only limited by your operating system.

Old CCE 2.50 doesn´t support DV Type1 but encodes DV Type2 and has a filesize limit of 2 GB on all systems.

Of course a proper DV codec needs to be installed (preferable a VfW compatible one like Panasonic DV).

regards
mb1

[ric499]

Thanks,

DVWannaB is right. New versions of TMPEGenc handle DV1 audio fine. Yes, I've used tooLame before. Like the quality, but it slowed down a slow process even further. Most of my stuff is home movies so not the best audio in the first place.