Convert a MPG2 to AVI or DivX?

[TDog2112]

I captured some home video to an AVI and then converted that to MPG2 format (CBR 2450, 720x640) to burn to XSVCD.

Is there a way for me to convert the MPG2 files back to AVI or DivX format?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

[TDog2112]

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[Lepy]

I also need help. I made an SVCD a while back and need to convert it back to avi/divx or a regular mpg so that I can make it into a vcd. Only problem is that neither Virtual Dub nor TMPGEnc will accept it as a valid format.

Any help would be great, thanks!

[Vejita-sama]

Not sure why you want to convert your MPEG2 to MPEG1 (the re-encoding will result in a quaility hit) but you can use VCDGear to convert the MPEG1 dat file back to a MPEG1 stream.

For SVCD you should be able to copy the MPEG from the MPEGAV dir.

[Lepy]

Yes, I did copy the MPEG from the directory. One problem though, it is very large. I want to convert it back to a vcd compliant setting, but none of the converters I have tried accept this MPEG. I have an anime series that I want to make into VCDs. I can have 4 episodes to 1 VCD, but I foolishly made episode 1 into an SVCD. I want to convert episode 1 back to VCD so that I can have eps 1-4 on one VCD, 5-8 on another, and so on. How would I do this?

[JJamez]

TDog - you should be able to do it with DVD2AVI, just use your MPG2 file in place of the VOB files it asks for. Then just save AVI instead of saving project - you'll be prompted for a compression codec, and you can just select Divx or whatever you want.

Lepy - TMPG won't accept the file? Are you able to play it in WinMediaPlayer (or whatever you use)?

[TDog2112]

JJAMES,
I tried DVD2AVI. When run, it immedietly says it's finished and produces a 0 byte length file. It probably has to do with the fact that my MPG2 is far from standard. It's CBR 2450, 720 x 640.

I tried FLASKMPEG last night, and it did produce an AVI file. Although for some reason WMP 6.4 couldn't play it. It was late and I didn't spend much time trying to figure it out. I'm going to have to dig into that tonight.

[JJamez]

Hmm... Not sure what the problem is with DVD2AVI.

I didn't mention Flask because, well, I don't think it likes me I've had nothing but problems with it unfortunately...

Of course there's always MPG2AVI - I tried it recently to do exactly what you're doing and it did eventually work, although I had some intial problems which I can't remember off the top of my head.