Please Help with Split Files

[makemeastar]

I have been working with mpg split files for years and understand quite a lot about it. My problem is that I have a set of movie files that start at .101 and up, but I do not have .000 or .001 - .100. I was wondering if there was a way to generate a new .001 file and be able to deal with the first 100 missing files? The split-file joiner that I have worked with require the mpg.001 file no matter what, and I do not want to dump the set of files that I have just because the first 100 files are missing. I do have a program that will allow me to view those individual files, but it is more fun putting all the files together and viewing it as a whole movie.

I have been able to create my own .000 files by siimply using a .000 from another mpg movie and simply renaming it.

This is my first posting to this forum. I have learned so much from this web site as well and have a feeling somewhere out there the answer is waiting to be told.

Many thanks

[bugster]

Why not just rename file.101 as file.001, file.102 as file.002 and so on.

[makemeastar]

I have learned a long time ago that when renaming Split-files from .001 and on up would never work when viewed by MS Media Player. Today I wanted to experiment with the renaming trick and I renamed all the files that start at .200 to start at .001 and it still does not function with MS Media Player, but I tried to veiw it with a program called Super Decoder and it worked. This is the first time I tried Super Decoder with the renamed files, to bad it would not work with MS Media player which is what I rather it did. I am glad that it worked with Super Decoder, but I am not 100% satisfied unitl I can get it to work with MS Media Player.

Keep in mind that borrowing the .000 from another set of mpg files and renaming it to the set of mpg file that you want has always worked.

Many thanks to your reply to my original request. Sometimes I need to be reminded to EXPERIMENT with technology.

Take care

[bugster]

Hmmm, the reason it probably doesn't work with WMP is it is probably missing some vital header information. You could try re-multiplexing the file using Tmpgenc mpg-tools simple multiplex, with any luck this will re-build the header.

[makemeastar]

I have TMPGenc and used it a couple of times. Today I tried to multiplex that video file, but I got a message saying that it was a illegal mpg file.

Could I be using TMPGenc incorrectly? I am going to check out the trouble shooting on this web site for TMPGenc to make sure I am doing it correctly, but like you said before there might be some header problems due to lack of the original .001 file.

I do not understand why Super Decoder works and WMP does not work. Oh well shit happens.

[bugster]

I have TMPGenc and used it a couple of times. Today I tried to multiplex that video file, but I got a message saying that it was a illegal mpg file.

Could I be using TMPGenc incorrectly? I am going to check out the trouble shooting on this web site for TMPGenc to make sure I am doing it correctly, but like you said before there might be some header problems due to lack of the original .001 file.

I do not understand why Super Decoder works and WMP does not work. Oh well shit happens.

There is not much you can do wrong with Tmpgencs simple multiplex, it just pretty much confirms that you are missing a header or something. There are other mpeg multiplexing/processing tools available, take a look at the tools section of this site, you might find one that will fix it. (bbmpeg springs to mind as a possibility)

As to why Super Decoder works, I can only guess that it can live without the header and just decode frames as it finds them. At least you can watch it on your PC.