Joining two MPEG2s problem

[dg_phillips]

I used this neat tool called DVTool to join (merge) two mpegs together and it seems to have worked well; however, I also need to convert this new MPEG2 from PAL to NTSC. When I tried to Simple Demultiplex in TMPGEnc, the demux worked only until it reached the "join area" and then ignored the rest of the "joined" MPEG2. I am assuming that TMPGEnc will demultiplex only as long as the headers and whatever are in sequential order but when the header sequencing goes back to zero (0)...it ignores whatever else is there. Hey...I'm a newbie and this is all guesswork on my part...if anyone more knowledgeable can put me right, I would appreciate it. Now what do I do get TMPGEnc to read the entire MPEG2 and demultiplex it? Or do I have to "fix" the new joined MPEG2 before TMPGEnc will read it entirely??? Please HELP!!!

Dan

[Solarjetman]

I never came acroos this problem myself. But TMPGEnc has the ability to join Mpegs as well. And I think its a safe guess to assume that it will properly read any files it joins.

So, the short of it. Try pasting the files together using TMPGEnc instead.

[FOO]

Joining MPEGs is always a problem. Don't if you dont have to.
I think I have tried DVTool and it doesn't work. You are
lucky you are starting with PAL. No telecining

I would convert each one separately. That way you can see
if they are ok.

What do you ultimately intend to do with them ? If you want to make a DVD
you never have to join them.

Solar,
It is not a safe guess to think that TMPGenc always joins MPEGs right

[Solarjetman]

It is not a safe guess to think that TMPGenc always joins MPEGs right

No, it may not work. But I think you would have a better chance at TMPGEnc liking the output file if it combined them itself.

Just throwing out ideas is all.

[andkiich]

tmpgen works best with MPEG files it creates itself. I've joined many MPEG files and if they were created with TMPGEN, no problems. If they were created with another program, then it's a 50/50 probablility that they will crash out for some reason.

[FOO]

Have you ever joined two files produced by TMPGenc with
soft pulldown and found the audio still in sync ?

[dg_phillips]

I tried joining two 700 MEG MPEGS once with TMPGEnc and I got royally hosed to say the least. Not only did TMPGEnc not work at all anymore...in spite of reinstalling it, I had to totally reinstall Windows XP as well. For this reason, I have been somewhat hesitant in using TMPGEnc to "join" anything anymore...however, these two mpegs total about 670 MEGS together so I guess I can go back and give TMPGEnc another try. It is a pity that someone has not developed a simple tool that could just rewrite the headers and/or sequencing on MPEGs for problems such as this.

I started out with two 700 MEG AVIs that make up this movie. I determined that after encoding with TMPGEnc, I would have to make three SVCDs to properly fit the movie for viewing on my DVD player. In simple terms this also meant that I would have approx. 66% of the first AVI, 34% of the rest of it...joined with 33% of the beginning of the second AVI and finishing up with the last 67% of the second AVI to make up my three SVCDs. At any rate, this is the best I can come up with...but then again, don't forget I'm a newbie...

Dan