TMPGEnc spilitting problem!!

[plumcrazy]

This is the first time I have tried to split a movie and I seem to be doing somthing wrong. I captured a svhs tape and converted it using TMPGEnc from it's avi format to an mpeg1 ntsc format, the mpeg1 file I now want to make into a vcd is 956 mb in size, so, I opened up TMPGEnc and went to the merge and cut tool, I loaded the mpeg file and used the slide bar to pick a stop point, I clicked ok and got this error msg "at address 73F91D04 error occured against address 73F91D04" so I then closed the TMPGEnc program, re opened it and went to the merge and cut tool again, I reloaded the mpeg and instead of using the slide bar, I used the counter and selected a stoping point in the movie and once again hit the start button, and once again I got the same error msg. Any ideas on my next move? Thanx in advance for any help.

[JJamez]

You can either 1) Round off the point you selected to the nearest second (using the up and down arrows next to the time), or do what I do and just ignore it - it will work fine anyway.

The only thing with TMPG and cutting is its not 'frame accurate', meaning the point you choose to cut at may in reality be a couple of seconds ahead or behind where you think it is. No big deal, but I thought I'd mention it.

JJ

[plumcrazy]

Ok, I ignored it, what it did was create two files for each half of the movie, but, under the files properties the format type said file, why not mpeg1, I can do nothing with the files it creates, not even play them on my pc with windows media player like I can on the captured movie I want to split, I am chosing mpgeg1 video cd in the drop down type box, what am I doing wrong here? Thanx

[JJamez]

Did you encode the original MPEG1 file at standard VCD specs? 1150b/s, 352x240, 29.97 frame rate, etc...

If not - use the MPEG1 (non standard) setting in TMPG and re-split it.

And try rounding off the start/end points to whole seconds like I mentioned before.

[clivem]

I don't know if you want to use a different program but the best one I have found for doing this is bbMPEG. Info on how to use it can be found here at,
http://www.vcdhelp.com/bbmpegedit.htm.

The only difference in this page is that you would have to change to the correct format in Program and Stream Settings.
Hope this may help.

[plumcrazy]

Yes JJ, I used the standard, and I tried rounding off. I have a mainactor software that came with my dazzle hollywood bridge, are u familiar with that software, I also have mgi videowave4, I'm stuck, I've played with this damn thing most of the day, I just can't believe it's that hard of a thing to do. Thanx for your responses.

[plumcrazy]

P.S. Next time I might just capture the svhs in two parts and not have to worry about this splitting stuff. :-?