Sampling a conversion

[bambam]

Hi
i would like to know if there is a way to do a sampling of a conversion before doing a big one. Let's you have a 700 Mo Avi file DivX that you want to convert into a MPG2 SVCD file. Instead of waiting 6 hours to see that the result is bad. I would like to know if it is possible to try converting let's say a 1 or 2 minutes sample of the entire movies and see if the result work fine, if it is THEN i can try to convert the entire 700 Mo movie. I think this would save me A LOT of time.

Thanks for your help

[Tommyknocker]

Sure, use the Source Range function in TMPGEnc to select whatever amout of the video you wish processed, and encode as normal.

[bambam]

Humm what a niceeeeeeeeeeee option
Thanks a lot

I have one question :
Is it normal that if i convert a little part of a movie with this option that i can't scroll in the movie when i watch it ? The scroll bar also stay at the beginning of the movie. (but the movie play properly) I use windows media player.

[Tommyknocker]

I believe it depends on the codec being used. Some will allow scrolling in Media Player, others will not.

[bambam]

I tryed it in media player classic
and the scroll bar moved and i could scroll without any problem during the movie, so apparently it was an option not available in windows media player.
Thanks alot