Not one freeware MPEG1/MPEG2 joiner worth a hill of beans..

[TMcD]

Is it just me or is there not one freeware MPEG1 or MPEG2 joiner that works correctly?

The only one that come close is TMPEG, but it does add it's little audio glitch at the join point.

So, my question is what is anyone doing?

I am grabbing from a VHS into VirtualDub ~1.9M segments of a 30 minute show (about 6 files total). (SVCD 480 X 480)

I convert them into MPEG files using TMPEG.

Then I'm lost bascially, since the files cannot be joined into one complete MPEG file.

Anyone?

Thanks,
Troy

P.S. I have also tried the same set-up and doing MPEG1 VCDs... no joiner...

[Vejita-sama]

Frameserve the segmented avis to TMPGenc w/ AVISynth (unalignedsplice command IIRC) or use GKnot to generate teh AVS script.

More info & downloads at http://www.doom9.org

Even thou you're frameserving you can still use source range and/or anyother filter.

[TMcD]

Hmmm.. well that's all foreign to me... why does such a simple thing seem to be so difficult?

Troy

[Graham Meredith]

Troy,
Are you sure you really want to join them AFTER conversion? I take it that you're doing your work in Vdub, then saving the resultant file as an AVI, either compressed or uncompressed, then taking these AVIs and converting them in TMPEnc. That's the very slow way!

You can join them all together in a row and cut/edit them in VirtualDub by using the file->append function, as Vejita-sama has indicated. You then have one continuous video in the Vdub "timeline" so to speak, made up of all your bits. Then frameserve to TMPEnc as one file. You don't actually even need Avisynth, I don't use it.

I'm assuming you may already have done this, and have come across problems as the reason you aren't doing it, but in case not, I thought I'd let you know. The only problem you can come across is when loading the appended avis, if they're different specs to each other, Vdub might complain, but seeing as you captured using Vdub, I don't see that as an issue.

Graham

[TMcD]

Graham,

Thanks for the reply.

I figured it was "the slow way" and I have been planning on looking into frameserving...

I looked at the help file for VDub, it didn't not explain how to frameserve, in an easy sense. Things I was supposed to find I didn't see in the menu options at all.

Is there a "How to framserve using VDub and TMPEG" somewhere? (For the still green newbie.)

Thanks,
Troy

[TMcD]

I found the VDub/TMPEG framserve help section:
http://www.vcdhelp.com/virtualdubframeserve.htm

Though I don't see how it will take my 6 files and serve them all at once to TMPEG for conversion.

It seems to do 1 file at a time. ???

Thanks,
Troy

[Shabubu]

When it frameserves it seamlessly joins the avi (without saving, just opens all six and "joins" them). The framerver then passes the frames to TMPGEnc, it doesn't see vdub swithc between avi's, it just thinks it's got one long file instead of 6 parts.

[TMcD]

Shabubu and all,

Thanks... It's working and I'll see how this turns out.

Happy Holidays.. Fa la la la la, la la la la...

Troy