H264 file to Mpeg2 - Having problems converting file

[MrRalphMan]

Hi all,

I've got a video file in H264 format and am trying to convert it to Mpeg2 to put onto DVD.

It is playable on my desktop PC, but have had no joy with the conversion process.

I have tried TMPGenc, but with no joy.

This ran through it's first pass ok, then failed with an read error.
Since then it's constantly failed with the same read error.

I also have tried the conversion program called 'SUPER'. This is freeware and seems to be able to convert almost anything.

But again no joy.

When set to convert to Mpeg 2, ffmpeg option, it ran for ever and never actually produced any output.

I attemped to use the mencoder option, this produced a small file 750MB instead of 4.5GB, but was unplayable.

Anyone here used anything else to do this?

Paul.

PS.. Great film...

[kevo777]

Is this H264 file of the Quicktime flavor (*.mov) or otherwise (*.avi, *.mp4, etc.)? Speaking from personal experience, I have great success converting H264 Quicktime files to DVD-complaint MPEG-2 files using AviSynth and QuEnc. Even though both QuEnc and SUPER use the ffmpeg engine, my QuEnc encodes look better and seem to encode in less time (my imagination, maybe?)

[MrRalphMan]

Is this H264 file of the Quicktime flavor (*.mov) or otherwise (*.avi, *.mp4, etc.)? Speaking from personal experience, I have great success converting H264 Quicktime files to DVD-complaint MPEG-2 files using AviSynth and QuEnc. Even though both QuEnc and SUPER use the ffmpeg engine, my QuEnc encodes look better and seem to encode in less time (my imagination, maybe?)

It is in an .AVI format.

I'll have to try AviSynth and QuEnc.. Not used these before.

Off to look them up on here..

Thanks dude..

[jagabo]

If you can consistantly get through a single pass with TMPGEnc you can switch to single pass constant quality encoding.