JVC .TOD Files, MPEG2 and Deinterlacing

[jagabo]

"Copy" means that stream will simply be copied from the input to the output. No other processing is done on it.

If you are going to copy the MPEG video and audio stream you'll want to use either an MPEG program stream (.MPG) or MPEG transport stream (.TS) for output. Maybe you used the MPEG Video option which only saves the video?

[Cralis]

Yes, that's right... I used the MPEG Video option. Is the .TS option the recommended way? Trying not to lose quality, and also need the output file to be usable by a video editor. (Pinnacle 12 or Sony Movie Studio 9).

[jagabo]

MPEG program streams are more likely to be accepted by editors (.MPG).

[poisondeathray]

If you set video=>copy, audio=>copy, format=>mpeg ps (program stream) , and press save and enter the extension (e.g. "myvideo.mpg"), it will just re-wrap from .tod to .mpg with no quality loss. I had no problems with the audio when doing this (it copied the native .mp2 audio directly)

If you use any filters, like deinterlacing, you have to re-encode. Out of the list in avidemux, I would use yadif. If you got the avisynth script working, you would have access to better deinterlacers

[Cralis]

How do you reencode? Is this a manual step or does the 'save' do this automatically?

[poisondeathray]

Instead of video=>copy you would select some compression. If you left it at "copy" it would be a direct stream copy (no re-encoding)

You could use MPEG2 for example. If you wanted to use lossless (no quality loss) you could choose huffyuv - but the filesize will be huge.

What are your goals? convert to something for your other editor? And then what final format goal? Keep in mind if you use lossy formats, you lose quality at each stage

[jagabo]

Generally, you would only want to deinterlace if you are making files for web streaming.

[aedipuss]

another tool that will convert .tod to .mpg with mp2 audio is mpeg streamclip.