I'm totally lost

[blob11]

Guys I need some help. All I want to do, for now, is put the movie A.I. on SVCD. I've asked a lot of people how to do that and they just send me to different websites and tell me to read their tutorials. Well I've tried a few tutorials now and none of them work. Tutorials are always too old and basically are too general to work for eveyrone. So I'm trying this.

Right now I have 2 large .avi files of A.I. (CD1 and CD2). What I've been told is that to make good SVCD's I need to take about 45 minutes worth of video at a time. So that means I need roughly 3 cd's for this movie cause of it's length. So I assume that means I need to combine the 2 .avi's and then split the full file into 3 equal parts. Right? How do i do that? Cause I've tried virtual dub, but the directions are too vague. Every time I try to append the second part of the movie I get an error saying the 2 parts are different formats.

Someone please help me.

[CogoSWSDS]

My guess is that in trying to combine the two AVI's into one that you are running up against the 4gb FAT32 file size limit of Windows (versions other than XP and 2000). If that's the case, then here's what I would try...

1. Split the first AVI (CD1.avi?) into two using VirtualDub. The first chunk should be about 45 minutes long (we'll call it CD1A.avi), the second piece (we'll call CD1B.avi) will be whatever's left. CD1A will be used to create the first SVCD.

2. Determine the length of CD1B.avi.

3. Split the second AVI (CD2.avi?) into two using VirtualDub. The first chunk (we'll call CD2A.avi) should be long enough that when added together with CD1A.avi equals about 45 minutes. The second chunk (we'll call CD2B.avi) will be whatever's left.

4. Join CD1B and CD2A (using VirtualDub). This will be used to create the second SVCD.

5. CD2B.avi will be used to create the third SVCD.

Now you've got 3 avi files for 3 CD's. Encode each one using your favorite MPEG2 encoder and burn your CDs.

BTW, I've seen A.I. and that is a really cool movie.

CogoSWSDS

[blob11]

I'm running Windows XP (2600) with NTFS though.

[theboywonder]

I've had a similar problem in the past. Never solved it though because I have pretty much stopped working with divx. These were my own encodes aswell (using the same 3.11 low motion codec!!!)

I think it is to do with the FourCC code on each avi file (e.g. DIV3 wont append to div3 as far as I can tell).

Try using the AVI FourCC Changer to ensure both are identical including the case of the letters!.

http://www.divx-digest.tv/software/edit/avic100.zip

or if it doesnt work...

http://www.divx-digest.com/software/avifourcc.html

would be nice to know if this solves your problem!

[theboywonder]

or

what you could do, is split using VDub as described above.

CD1.avi >> into
>>> CD1.avi (45mins)
>>> CD2A.avi (remaining)

CD2.avi >> into
>>> CD2B.avi (enough when added to CD2A to make 45mins)
>>> CD3.avi (whatever is remaining)

Don't need to join CD2A and CD2B. (where you might have issues)

Just encode all files with TMPGenc.

Burn CD2A and CD2B together on the same cd-r with Nero (or import into TSCV / VCD Easy, whichever way you do it).

(I am just about to do this movie myself )

[blob11]

Alright guys, I'm trying the method of splitting it into 4 parts and just burning the 2 middle parts onto 1 cd, but I can't get virtual dub to extract the audio. I get this error "The requested audio compression is not compatible with the input format. Check that the sampling rate and channel count of the input match those of the requested format." What's the deal?

[Frankanger]

As to the audio question, you're more than likely the owner of a Vite copy of A.I which was encoded with AC3 sound (original from the DvD) hence the audio flag you get when trying to extract.

My suggestion:

Forget the svcd conversion and try using Kwag templates (there's lots too choose from) http://www.kvcd.net -- you'll get each part on a single cd using Kwag (if you're standalone DVD supports it) and in great quality too.

The Ac3 conversion problem has been discussed before, there's a handy dandy tutorial for just exactly that problem under 'Convert' over to the left side of this site.

Hope this helps some -- and good luck on whichever method you choose.

[KingJohn]

Guys I need some help. All I want to do, for now, is put the movie A.I. on SVCD.

You need to convert with less work as possible, if Vdub append does not work then the AVI's are different, maybe framerate or anything so it wont join them.

The quickest way I can see with the less hassle, it to convert what you have with TMPGEnc using a SVCD template, test those out before you waste any time.

If the mpeg 2 files are OK, you can join them with Merge&cut then remove anything you don't want and split into 3. Use any other template and the quality will drop, and it may not even play on your DVD player.

If the A.I is a DVD rip, then it may be worth using SVCD, anything else and they should be put on a VCD, DVD rips may contain VBR MP3 or even AC3, all of which TMPGEnc will handle, so long as the codec's/filters are installed.

TMPGEnc Plus 2.58 needs the codec from Power DVD 4