Hi!

I'm trying to use ffmpegX 0.0.9s to convert a friend's short movie from DV on his camera to DVD, SVCD and VCD. I've successfully done the DVD but am struggling a little with the VCD and SVCD...

I dropped the input .mov file (containing the DV) into the Source Format well, and selected VCD(mpeg2enc) as the Target Format. I checked through the settings and in the Tools tab "Author as VCD (.bin/.cue)" is ticked.

I hit the Encode button and the Mac churns away for 20 minutes or so and produces the following three files for me:
moviename.m1v
movename.mp2
moviename-1.mpg

But there's no sign of a .bin and .cue file pair. The "How To" guide suggests these should be left too.

In the end I used the Tools tab and select the "moviename-1.mpg" file in the "Video Tools" area, changed "Mux as..." to VCD and hit "Author". This produced:
moviename-1.mpg.bin
moviename-1.mpg.cue
moviename-1.mpg.mpg

The latter ".mpg.mpg" file appeared and the input ".mpg" file was deleted.

* Is this right? Especially given the ".mpg.mpg" file is slightly smaller
than the input ".mpg" one?

* Should the .bin/cue files have appeared automatically (in which case
why didn't they?) or do I have to author them manually (in which case
the How To guide is out of date)

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A similar problem happens when trying to produce the SVCD: the How To guide says a pair of .img files should be produced... but they aren't. Instead I get left with:
moviename.m2v
moveiename.mp2
moveiename-1.mpg

This time the trick of selecting the .mpg file and authoring it as SVCD doesn't produce anything resembling a .img file. Instead the "Info" for the task from the progress window says:

Size of Fix: 0x914
now reapplying junk-header ....
Now processing /Users/xyz1/Movies/Inner Sense ff SVCD/Inner
Sense.mov.ff-1.mpg [1/1] ...
-------Done--------
(Super) VideoCD xml description created successfully as
`/Users/xyz1/Movies/Inner Sense ff SVCD/Inner Sense.mov.ff-1.mpg.xml'
++ WARN: initializing libvcd 0.7.12 [darwin5.2/powerpc]
++ WARN:
++ WARN:
++ WARN: mpeg scan: pack header code (0x000001ba) expected, but
0x1b8d1a00 found (buflen = 2324)
++ WARN: bad packet at packet #2 (stream byte offset 4648) -- remaining
282233534 bytes of stream will be ignored
INFO: scanning mpeg sequence item #0 for scanpoints...
++ WARN: mpeg stream shorter than 75 sectors
!ASSERT: file vcd_files.c: line 731 (set_search_dat): assertion failed:
(n = _get_scanpoint_count (obj))

And I get left with these new files:
moveiname-1.mpg.mpg
moveiname-1.mpg.toc
moveiname-1.mpg.xml

Doesn't look too hopeful?

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And finally...

* Given the input file is a .mov containing DV should the "Preview"
buttons up at the top of the window, or at the lower right of the
"Filters" tab pane work? On mine they don't: some app launches than
quickly disappears but nothing is previewed. (The AutoCrop button
similarly doesn't work.)


Thanks,
Mike