Newbie: Converting joined EyeTV mpg's to make a DVD

I followed instructions on El Gato's site, and they suggested posting my output window here to see if anyone could figure out what I did wrong. Any suggestions are much appreciated. The resulting files totalled about 600K. Why isn't this working?



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pbpaste | sh
Welcome to Darwin!
[G4-867-Tower:~] marlon% pbpaste | sh
Encoding started on Thu Jul 31 09:00:00 CDT 2003
INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler (version 1.7.0) is a general scaling utility for yuv frames
INFO: [yuvscaler] (C) 2001-2002 Xavier Biquard <xbiquard@free.fr>
INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler -h for help, or man yuvscaler
Input #0, mpeg, from '/Volumes/Maxtor FireWire/DVD Project/chunk.mpg':
Stream #0.0: Video: mpegvideo, 352x240, 29.97 fps, 1150 kb/s
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 44100 Hz, stereo, 224 kb/s
Output #0, yuv4mpegpipe, to 'pipe:':
Stream #0.0: Video: rawvideo, yuv420p, 720x480, 23.98 fps, q=2-31, 200 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Press [q] to stop encoding
YUV4MPEG stream header written. FPS is 24000
++ WARN: [mpeg2enc] 3:2 movie pulldown with frame rate set to decode rate not display rate
++ WARN: [mpeg2enc] 3:2 Setting frame rate code to display rate = 4 (29.970 fps)
ac-tex damaged at 20 1415317813kB time=1262.0 bitrate=99434.6kbits/s
Error while decoding slice
ac-tex damaged at 21 1430733334kB time=2532.0 bitrate=99434.6kbits/s
Error while decoding slice
invalid cbp at 15 14ze=45743343kB time=3768.6 bitrate=99434.6kbits/s
Error while decoding slice
ac-tex damaged at 21 14=60657163kB time=4997.3 bitrate=99434.6kbits/s
Error while decoding slice
ac-tex damaged at 20 14=75925869kB time=6255.2 bitrate=99434.6kbits/s
Error while decoding slice
ac-tex damaged at 21 14=91220394kB time=7515.3 bitrate=99434.6kbits/s
Error while decoding slice
invalid cbp at 19 14ize=106514920kB time=8775.3 bitrate=99434.6kbits/s
Error while decoding slice
invalid cbp at 21 14ize=121867158kB time=10040.1 bitrate=99434.6kbits/s
Error while decoding slice
ac-tex damaged at 20 14=137177377kB time=11301.5 bitrate=99434.6kbits/s
Error while decoding slice
ac-tex damaged at 21 14=152467853kB time=12561.2 bitrate=99434.6kbits/s
Error while decoding slice
ac-tex damaged at 9 14e=167698589kB time=13816.0 bitrate=99434.6kbits/s
Error while decoding slice
frame=361812 q=0.0 size=183169798kB time=15090.6 bitrate=99434.6kbits/s
Input #0, mpeg, from '/Volumes/Maxtor FireWire/DVD Project/chunk.mpg':
Stream #0.0: Video: mpegvideo, 352x240, 29.97 fps, 1150 kb/s
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 44100 Hz, stereo, 224 kb/s
sh: line 1: 1224 Bus error /Applications/ffmpegX_0.0.6j/ffmpegX.app//Contents/Resources/ffmpeg -i /Volumes/Maxtor\ FireWire/DVD\ Project/chunk.mpg -y -vn -f mp2 -acodec mp2 -ab 224 -ar 48000 -ac 2 -map 1.1:0.0 /Volumes/Maxtor\ FireWire/DVD\ Project/Done/CHAPPELLE.mp2
INFO: [mplex] mplex version 2.2.1 ($Date: 2002/04/20 19:08:30 $)
INFO: [mplex] File /Volumes/Maxtor FireWire/DVD Project/Done/CHAPPELLE.m2v looks like an MPEG Video stream.
**ERROR: [mplex] Unable to read from file /Volumes/Maxtor FireWire/DVD Project/Done/CHAPPELLE.mp2.

STAT: Processing /Volumes/Maxtor FireWire/DVD Project/Done/CHAPPELLE.mpg...
ERR: Error opening /Volumes/Maxtor FireWire/DVD Project/Done/CHAPPELLE.mpg: No such file or directory
tocgen running
scanning /Volumes/Maxtor FireWire/DVD Project/Done/CHAPPELLE.DVD/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.IFO
Total translation table size: 0
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 0
Total directory bytes: 4096
Path table size(bytes): 42
Max brk space used 0
304 extents written (0 Mb)
Encoding completed on Fri Aug 1 06:49:35 CDT 2003

[EyeBrowse]

I've had the same problem. Taking a video from EyeTV to burn on a DVD-R is easy as long as it's a single mpg file. I simply export as Toast VCD, then use ffmpegX to demux it, then remux as DVD and author. Works like a charm. But for some reason if I try to join two Toast mpg's together, I can demux it OK, but ffmpegX won't remux it as DVD. I would like to know why two joined mpg's do not equal a single mpg file, and if someone has a technique for burning multiple Toast mpg's onto a DVD-R.

[misterrogers]

You don't have to re-encode the video. I've posted instructions here:

http://scott.littlemeanfish.com/blog/archives/000489.html

Cheers
Scott