How do I encode 2 movies at once to make 1 mpg with tmpgenc?

[sacred ff]

I want to create 1 mpg movie out of 2 .VOB files. (when I ripped the DVD, the begining of the movie was the first .vob and the rest was the 2nd, and I don't want to make a seperate mpg for each) Note that I can't re-rip the DVD. How do I do that with TMPGENC. Is it possible?

This is what I want:
1st.VOB + 2nd.VOB = one mpg movie

and the program I want to use is TMPGENC.

Actually, my real question is: Can I open two movie files at once in TMPGENC to create 1 mpg out of those 2 movies?

[BJ_M]

no -- only avi files can be done that way in tmpgenc ..

you have to join before or after ...

or frame serve them to tmpgenc with v-dub or avisynth will work out perfectly well ..

[Capmaster]

I want to create 1 mpg movie out of 2 .VOB files. (when I ripped the DVD, the begining of the movie was the first .vob and the rest was the 2nd, and I don't want to make a seperate mpg for each) Note that I can't re-rip the DVD. How do I do that with TMPGENC. Is it possible?

This is what I want:
1st.VOB + 2nd.VOB = one mpg movie

and the program I want to use is TMPGENC.

Actually, my real question is: Can I open two movie files at once in TMPGENC to create 1 mpg out of those 2 movies?

I don't know about TMPGEnc because I don't use it anymore, but you can download a trial copy of Womble MPEG Video Wizard, open the two .VOB files, and save it as one video clip.

[sacred ff]

well the thing is, I want to make an SVCD with that mpg. I don't know how I can "fuse" two movies so that they are one mpg. TMPGEnc is the best program I've tried for encoding avis to mpg. So I'd prefer if I can do that with TMPGEnc. I can make an AVI with those .VOBs, but it will just take too much time and will cause a loss of quality. So I want to make the SVCD-ready mpeg in one shot using TMPGEnc, but the problem is that the movie is seperated in 2 vob files, so I want to make a

SVCD-ready MPG from 2 vob files using TMPGEnc. Is it possible?

(And in case I want to use the program you told me to, Capmaster,
does Womble have these features: Resize and sharpen edge? I use those to make sure I don't lose the sides of the movie because the TV clips off the sides and I like sharpening the movies to make them the clearest possible. And is the quality of Womble as good as TMPGenc and is it faster/slower? I don't know anything about this program so...... is it made to create (s)vcds?)

[sacred ff]

no -- only avi files can be done that way in tmpgenc ..

you have to join before or after ...

or frame serve them to tmpgenc with v-dub or avisynth will work out perfectly well ..

Sorry I'm a total newb, I don't know anything so....... what's "frame serve" and what do you mean by "you have to join before or after ..."?

I'm sorry if my questions are stupid, I'm a newb and don't know (really) anything about encoding (I just use TMPGEnc and Virtual Nan/Dub)

thx for your help in advance

[BJ_M]

you can even frame serve two tmpgenc projects with vfapi.exe and send both to a new session of tmpgenc and join two vobs that way ...

see guides to the left on frame serving- its very easy to do ..

[sacred ff]

you can even frame serve two tmpgenc projects with vfapi.exe and send both to a new session of tmpgenc and join two vobs that way ...

see guides to the left on frame serving- its very easy to do ..

I'm sorry, I really suck at this...

Could you please explain step by step what I have to do?

I'm gonna try it now, but just in case I do something wrong, can you please? Thx in advance.

[BJ_M]

we need to make a guide on frame serving with tmpgenc , seems there isnt one in the guides section ...

you basicly load your video into tmpgenc and save as a project , and load that project fileinto vfapi.exe and make a fake avi --

make all fake avi in same directorys and name like this:

avi.001.avi
avi.002.avi
avi.003.avi

then load your first (avi.001.avi) fake av into another session of tmpgenc - tmpgenc will open all 3 avi and make mpeg merging them as one ..


also you could use dvd2svcd instead...

[ZippyP.]

does Womble have these features: Resize and sharpen edge?

And is the quality of Womble as good as TMPGenc?

Womble is not an encoder, it is an mpeg (also vob) editting program. It will take your vob's, combine them if you want, and spit out an mpeg. The mpeg will be exactly like the original which is within the vob file, no conversion is done at all...other than vob-to-mpeg.

You can also open the vob's with Virtualdub-mpeg2, append them together, then frameserve directly to TMPGEnc.

Here's a frameserving guide.

The advantage of frameserving is that you don't need to save to an intermediate file and you don't convert the file into another format unnecessarily (which causes quality loss).


Seems to me that DVD2AVI could be used to frameserve your vob's as well.