Joined Mpegs Autopadding Problem

[Ejoc]

Ok, I was capturing a movie and had a mishap, so I needed to do 2 captures to get it. Using the source setting in TMPGEnc I was able to get 1 770MB MPEG and the a 300MB and 450MB MPEGS for the second CD, so far its working like I wanted it to. I used TMPGEnc to merge the two smaller ones into a single MPEG which was 750MB. This, in my mind, was all I needed to do, but VCDEasy told me different. When I added the merged MPEG it complainted that it needed autopadding, and when creating the image to burn, it added autopadding for me, which balloned the image file to 880MB.

I tried running the merged mpeg thru TMPGEnc's multiplexer, but that didnt help.

I either need to have TMPGEnc correct the problem, or have VCDEasy ignore it.

[Tommyknocker]

I would try to write a AviScript for joining the three video clips. Then load the script into TMPGEnc, and encode it to its (S)VCD format. Then see how VCDEasy likes it.

[Ejoc]

Whats sad is I did run it thru an avisynth scripts, but one for each capture. I didnt think I could trim and join the clips since they were segemented captures, but I could have... Damn shame I deleted the capture AVI's bout 10 minutes ago Next time I'll do that I did burn both of the small mpegs onto a cd, and theres only like a 1/10 of a second delay when switching, so its liveable, but I'd like to be able to correct the audopadding, if I can.

[Tommyknocker]

Are the three MPEG files still available?

[Ejoc]

yes I have:
Spooky Encounters 1.mpeg
Spooky Encounters 2.mpeg <merged file>
Spooky Encounters 2a.mpeg
Spooky Encounters 2b.mpeg

all CVD VBR Mpeg-2's

[Tommyknocker]

I use a program called AVSGEN to help me write AviScript sometimes. Maybe you can use it as well to join your three MPEG files and use the scrip to convert in TMPGEnc, saving you an extra encoding session. Anyway, AVSGEN generates the following script for your files:

LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AVSGEN\bin\MPEG2DEC.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AVSGEN\bin\Decomb.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AVSGEN\bin\AVISynth_Spatial.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AVSGEN\bin\SimpleResize.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AVSGEN\bin\MPEGDecoder.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AVSGEN\bin\Convolution3D.dll")
MPEGSource("C:\Spooky Encounters 1.mpeg"-2)+ MPEGSource("C:\Spooky Encounters 2.mpeg"-2)+MPEGSource("C:\Spooky Encounters 2a.mpeg"-2)+MPEGSource("C:\Spooky Encounters 2b.mpeg"-2)
FlipVertical
ConvertToRGB24

Of course, you will have to install AVSGEN as it has all the DLLs it uses in its dirctories. I also need FlipVertival because I have a codec somewhere that turns my video upside down when I use this program. You may not need it.

[Ejoc]

Thanks, I'll play around with that.

[Ejoc]

I "Solved" autopadding problems w/ TMPGEnc Multiplexing.

When you run the multiplex tool, from the MPEG Tools section, and load the m2v and mp2 files it will set your Type to: MPEG-2 Program (VBR)

You need to change it to MPEG-2 Super VideoCD (VBR)

Then you dont get the autopadding problems.