.M2V to SVCD help!!!

[sangyool]

hi

i've been using TMPGEnc to convert to mpg then burning SVCDs with EasyVCD....

i have one music video that is in the .m2v format, and i have no idea how to deal with this, could someone help me? thanks

i've tried renaming it to mpeg or loading it with virtual dub but it gives me an error saying "no video frames found in mpeg file"
with TMPGEnc, it says the format is not supported

i downloaded and installed the MPEG-2 codec linked from this site, doesn't do anything

[mats.hogberg]

m2v usually stands for mpeg 2 video elementary stream (just video - no audio, a little strange as you say it's a music video... ). VirtualDub don't open mpeg2 at all, neither do TMPGEnc natively. Try VirtualDubMod.

[sanjayk]

Are you able to play the file on your PC or not ? Try opening it in AVICodec or GSpot to see the stream details.

[sangyool]

i have a lot of videos in the same format, that's really wierd

checked it with AVIcodec, here are the details...


V.codec name: MPEG 2 (SVCD/DVD)

A.1 codec name: Mpeg-1 audio Layer 2

File : 101 MB (0.0 B), duration: 0:00:00, type: MPG, 1 audio stream(s), quality: 88 %

Video : 0.0 B, 2520 Kbps, 29.970 fps, 480*480 (16:9), MPG2 = MPEG 2 (SVCD/DVD), Supported

Audio : 0.0 B, 224 Kbps, 44100 Hz, 2 channels, 0x51 = Mpeg-1 audio Layer 2 [0xc0], Supported

[sangyool]

k i can open it with virtualdubmod, but i can't convert it to .avi under "direct steam copy", only with the other three... but with those other three the video gets cut into a square

anyway to convert it w/o losing the frame ratio?

[mats.hogberg]

?? No, as your sorce is mpeg2, direct stream copy wont give you an AVI... Cut into a square? It is a square, if aspect ratio is what you mean. (480*480)
mpegs have display aspect ratio which AVIs don't, so if your mpeg is 4:3 DAR, you have to resize to some 4:3 AVI resolution (or 16:9 if that's the DAR of the mpeg).

/Mats

[sangyool]

?? No, as your sorce is mpeg2, direct stream copy wont give you an AVI... Cut into a square? It is a square, if aspect ratio is what you mean. (480*480)
mpegs have display aspect ratio which AVIs don't, so if your mpeg is 4:3 DAR, you have to resize to some 4:3 AVI resolution (or 16:9 if that's the DAR of the mpeg).

/Mats

how would i go about doing that? or would it get automatically resized when i make the mpeg by using TMPEnc?

[sangyool]

changing it to mpeg with TMPEnc did the trick, thank you very much!!