MPG Splitting

[Evan7]

Alright i have The Stealers vs Colts Football game recorded in DVD quality off my ati shit and its saved as NFLplayoff.mpg and its about 9 Gigs and i am gonna have 2 put it on a dvd how do i do this..

[ZippyP.]

author it and burn it to a dvd there are guides for that you can find them by clicking on the green author link on the left side of this page if you don't want to use two disks then you can shrink it to fit afterwards with dvdshrink but you would have been better to capture the footage to the correct size in the first place

[jimmalenko]

Do you want it on one DVD ? SL or DL ?

Or do you want to split it onto 2 SL DVDs ?

[mats.hogberg]

If you don't want to transcode/reencode (=decrease quality) you either have to use a dual layer DVD, or cut the mpg in two (womble mpeg vcr).

/Mats

[rhegedus]

How long, in minutes is the whole thing (with/without half time crap)?

[Evan7]

about 130 mins because i cut half time out by pausing it and most of the commercials so i just wanna Eather fit it onto a dvd to watch on my dvd player sometime or fit onto a data disk so i can watch on bigscreen through my s-video on my other computer.

[mats.hogberg]

130 mins should look decent on a DVD5.

/Mats

[Evan7]

the thing is its 9.36 GB (10,057,992,192 bytes)

and wont fit on one dvd and i need 2 split it or something

[mats.hogberg]

Reencode it down.130 min gives you >4400 kbps to play with (given 224 kbps audio) 9.36 GB for 130 min approaches max allowed DVD bitrate - overkill in most cases.

/Mats

[Cornucopia]

Check and see what the audio is...maybe it's PCM! You might could save a whole lot of space by converting the audio to med/low bitrate mp2 or AC3.

Scott

[Evan7]

but see thats what i need help with i dont know what im doing :- \

[jimmalenko]

http://members.dodo.net.au/~jimmalenko/AVI2DVD.htm might have some useful advice.

[Cornucopia]

Evan7, get Gspot and open your file(s) in that. See what the bitrate for the video is, see what the frame size is (hopefully 720x480), and see what kind of streams the video and audio are (usually MPEG2 for video). The audio probably shows (L)PCM (or some variant spelling) or AC3 (aka Dolby Digital) or DTS or Mpeg1Layer2 (or similar) or Mpeg1Layer3 (possible for MPEG, but not allowed for DVD). If it's the 1st one, you can reap some file savings...
Get TMPGEnc and demux your MPEG stream to elementary video and audio streams.
Then, you could use TMPGEnc again to convert that LPCM stream (probably shown as a WAV file) to mp2.
Then, use TMPGEnc again to re-Multiplex the video and the new audio to a new MPEG Program stream.
Then author with the new muxed stream file.

I know that's not step-by-step, but there are a number of guides here for each of those steps. Just search for them...

Scott

[Evan7]

i used gspot but im not 2 familer on how 2 use it but i opened file and in most of what u want is says n.a. only thing that showed up was the size
1,400 MB (or 1,433,650 KB or 1,468,057,600 bytes)
path
D:\Temp Anything\NFL Playoff (Jan 15).mpg

[guns1inger]

get the latest beta of G-spot. The version you have can't read mpegs files correctly.

[mats.hogberg]

Version 2.52 beta, last time I looked.

/Mats

[Evan7]

Container
MPEG-2 Program Stream << { 1 vid, 1 aud }
Sys Bitrate: 8586 kb/s VBR
Audio
Codec: MPEG-1 Layer 2
info: 0xc0:48000Hz 224 kb/s total (2 chnls)
Video
Codec: MPEG2_Video
Name: MPEG-2
stat: Codec(s) are NOT Installed

Length: 02:38:40
Frames: ~285,297
kbps: 8000
Qf: 0.772
Pics/sec: 29.970
Frms/sec: 29.970
Flds/sec: 59.939

Frame: 720 x 480
FAR: 1.500 (3:2)
PAR: 0.889
DAR: 1.333 (4:3)
1. None, already DVD format
2. None, already DVD format



Thats all i got now what?>

[mats.hogberg]

Well, it's mp2 audio - not much to tinker with there.
Either reencode @4400 kbps, or author as is to HDD, then shrink the output down to DVD5 size with DVDShrink before you finally burn it to DVD disc.

/Mats

[Evan7]

See iuno how to do that reencode? or HDD mabe u have aim or msn or somthing and we can chat on that if that would be easier to go through this stuff

[mats.hogberg]

No really - I don't do "holding hands"!
Just author it with let's say TMPGEnc DVD Author, ignoring all warnings that the final DVD will be too big.
Don't open the burn tool after the authoring process. Just quit TDA.
Open DVDShrink, click the Open Files button, and browse to where TDA wrote the authored files.
Set Shrink to output ISO.
When DVDShrink has finished, burn ISO with ImgBurn.
Done.

/Mats

[Evan7]

ok i got DVD Aurthor now i click creat new project then add file and i opened the nfl playoff and it says this

*The video sequence header is incorrect.

The video sequence header is incorrect.
A video sequence header is necessary for every GOP in a standard DVD.

[Evan7]

Anybody know?

[jimmalenko]

You need a sequence header for every GOP.

There's a guide in the guides section that deals with MPEG-1 using TMPGEnc Plus, but I think you could adapt it for MPEG-2. Either that or one of the MPEG Tools like VideoRedo or Restream might be able to help. Forum search "sequence header" and you might get some good results.