Avi too mpeg help

[Bradleyko]

hello i am download some videos in .avi and most of them are in codec div 4 and one is div 3. there are video files wih video and sound in one and i want to make them .mpg so i can watch them on tv whats the best and easiset way to do this.?

[launchpad]

Open Panasonic MPEG encoder first, and open the movie with the first “select” button. Make sure that “use identical files” is checked. On the right side of the open window there should be a box that says “type”. Choose VCD/NTSC stream. Here is the only tricky part: at the top right hand of the open window, the dimensions for the movie should be shown with the width x height. You need to find a proportion between this and the movie you are going to create. Follow this part carefully or the movie will be all messed up. Multiply the height of the movie (the second one) by 352. Then divide this number by the width. This will give you the needed height of the output movie. Now subtract this number from 240. Divide it by two. Round it to the nearest whole number. Remember this number. Click on Special Processing. Find the area where you can “add black”. Add the number you were supposed to remember to the top and to the bottom. The horse on the right should squeeze in a bit from the top and the bottom sides. Click ok. Pick an output name for the movie where you should (somewhere in the middle of the main window), and then click encode, or ok, or go, or whatever it says to start to make the movie. (Hey, this is from memory) This will take a while. Depending on the speed of your comp. Mine takes about 10 hours with 667 MHz and 128 of ram. After this is done, the hardest and longest part is over. Now open TMPGEnc, and click file, then MPEG tools. Click Merge and Cut. Here you can cut the movie into two or three sections, because chances are it won’t fit into one disc. Click add, then find the movie. Click on the movie, then click edit. Use common sense to figure out how to cut the movie into about 650 MB sections, or whatever you want to fit on the disc. If you don’t know the size, go on the safe side and cut it into thirds. This will take about 30 minutes. Save each third or half to the desktop under a new name like VCD1, VCD2, etc. Now you can burn them to a disc. The biggest problem people have here is that they just burn them onto the disc by itself and the DVD player can’t read it. You need VCD burning software. I use Nero Burning Rom, but I’ve heard of a few others. Figure out on your program if it lets you burn Video CD’s, and how. Remember if you ever get stuck, just use common sense. That’s what I did, and it saved me a lot of time.

[Bradleyko]

Wow thx u went past my expectations thank you

[Bradleyko]

hey havin a problem i cant open the .avi no codec or sumthing?

[Bradleyko]

and it only encdoes 30 seconds is their any way i cang get around this?

[Craig Tucker]

Check this link for how to convert divx to vcd

http://www.vcdhelp.com/tmpgenc.htm

If you are having problems playing your divx file you probrably don't have the necessary codecs installed, download the nimo codec pack available on this site under tools.

Craig