.Mov to VCD

[rich21044]

I'm new to this but as an exercise I'm trying to convert the Harry potter trailer (.mov) to VCD. I've followed the "how to" advice and used Rad tools to convert the video (error on audio - so no audio) to AVI using both the PIC and DivX4.01 Codecs and all seems well in that I can use Windows Media Player to view the output file. However when it comes to coverting the AVI to MPG using TMPGEnc, all I get is a black. Rad Tools say the AVI is 480x278@24fps so I've used the NTSCFilm setting in TMPGEnc. What am I doing wrong, have I missed something out? Has anybody managed to convert the HP trailer to VCD.

[vanillabox]

try this program "Digigami MegaPEG Encoder', there is a free demo at the following link: http://www.digigami.com/megapeg/

this demo has a water mark and a fade out intro, but the quality that I got was great. It was fast and easy to boot.

[thxkid]

Go on this site and get the .mov plug-in for TMPGE and it will convert to a VCD or SVCD which ever template you choose, I had the Moulin Rouge Musiv Video as a .mov used the plug in and it came out as a perfect SVCD MPEG2.

[rich21044]

I have tried to download the megapeg batch encoder but there seems to be a problem with the site so I havent been able to try it yet.

I have already installed the QT reader in the TMPGEnc folder and it doesn't seem to work (on this trailer at least)

I have also tried other programms such as TRMOOV but they fail at the start with a div/0 error.(becasue its a QT5 file maybe) One site suggested using Radtools to get the AVI (which works OK) and then TMPGEnc to extract the audio and then re multiplex using Virtual Dub but I couldn't get TMPGenc to extract the audio - it just produces a 2Mb silent .mp2. I tried total rec 3 but it just messed up the audio (sounded all choppy and echoey)

Any other suggestions??

[Mackerelq]

Here's the problem. Most (if not all) of these tools you referred to are not capable of handling QT movies encoded in Sorenson Video. Most of all the new Quicktime Trailers are in Sorenson because it has great quality.

What you need to accomplish this is the following:

Apple's Quicktime player http://www.apple.com/quicktime
If at all possible get Quicktime Pro (worth the $30).

Then get this nifty little utensil called Mov2Avi http://www.divx-digest.com/software/mov2avi.html

Mov2avi is a command line converter for Quicktime Movies. What many people don't know that this is actually the export engine from quicktime pro. I don't know if the author reverse engineered it or just simply ripped it out of the program, but if you have quicktime pro, you will notice the interactive mode if this has the same interface as the Quicktime Pro export function. Anyways, I degress.

So, you need the Quicktime player installed for the necessary QT .dll's and codecs which the Mov2avi interfaces with in order to function.

Copy mov2avi.exe to the same directory as the QT movie. Go to a command prompt, cd\ to the directory containing the movie and converter and type: mov2avi Trailer.mov -i (where trailer.mov represents the name of the QT movie) This will give you the interactive (GUI) mode of the executable. Then just change the parameters to reflect what quality you want the movie and audio.

**Tip: Change the audio parameters first, I have found that changing the Video parameters first sometimes makes the program crash.

What I typically use for VCD is:

Video:
Compressor: None
Millions of colors
Quality: Best
FPS: 29.97 (NTSC)

Audio:
Compressor: None
Rate: 44.100
Size: 16 bit
Use: Stereo (creates CD Quality Sound)

*Note using it this way makes a HUGE avi and the program always creates the avi in the same directory as the source movie (cannot change it) so make sure you have plenty of space.

Then just use VirtualDub to Resize or whatever manipulation you need and serve it to TmpgEnc to encode.

Sorry for the long post, but I like to be as explanatory as possible.

[rich21044]

Thanks for all your advice. I tried Mov2avi but it kept giving me a component error so in the end I upgraded to Quicktime Pro. I have now managed to produce my first VCD using the Phillips Toolkit (with TMPGenc, VCDMUX, Gear Pro 5 and Tocsplit) to produce a menu system which will play either or both of the trailers. I also used Quicktime Pro and MGi video wave to build an short intro sequence and a menu backdrop. I expect its all pretty basic stuff to most of you out there but I am very happy with the result (and so are my kids)

[jovobas]

tnx for the info, but I do have a question, Mackerlq : the TMPGEnc worked fine for me with the QuicktimeReader for one movie, than suddenly it didn't work anymore for the next one, and neither for the previous ones... Could it be an upgrade problem, because I upgraded from QT4 to 5. I tried to reinstall the reader but no effect.
Anyway same problem here which is now solved thanks to mov2avi.
jovobas

[Mackerelq]

Jovobas:

Nope, not the upgrade. Here's the issue: The QT Reader plugin is only compatible with Cinepak compression and Sorenson Video3. (as far as I know) It will NOT open Sorenson Video ver.1 files, hence the illegal floating point error. The best way to check that is to click on the "Window" menu option on the Quicktime player and select "Show Movie Info" you may have to click the "More Info:" blue arrow down. This will show all kinds of useful information about your movie. One good thing I have found is that almost all the new trailers on the Apple site are encoded in Sorenson3 which gives better compression, better quality and can be encoded directly from TmpgEnc without having to extract to AVI.

Enjoy.

[aldo199]

Hi,

I also tried to convert the Harry Potter trailer to VCD. First, I tried to convert the .mov file to .mpg file, using TMPGEnc

I follow all the instruction and setting. But after I press start, i got an error message :

"Illegal floating decimal point calculation order"

And I stuck there. Please help. I'm using Windows 2000.

--aldo199--