VirtualDub -> Save image sequence... Batching problem

[csin]

I have a bunch of dat files. I'm using VirtualDub to turn them into jpg's.

I over 200 dat files. I can't highlight them all when I "Open video file..." and VD is not opening sequential files.

Is there a way to batch?


I took a quick look at VirtualDubMod, it doesn't seem to support jpg's, so I didn't continue figuring out what's diff about it.

[Baldrick]

You could try join all .dat files to a single mpg with the old tmpgenc, under file->mpeg tools and merge & cut. Open the mpg in virtualdub.

[csin]

tmpgenc doesn't accept dat files.

Is scripting easy? I need something like:

loop 200 {
Open( ITEM0001.DAT + n, 0, 0 );
SaveImageSequence( item, n, 4, jpg );
n + 1;
}

[Baldrick]

Doesn't Virtualdub open them all if they are named like that (item0001.dat,item0002.dat). Just be sure to select the Automatically load linked segments in the file->open window.


And what kind of .dat files do you have? I can only think of VCD mpeg1 .dat files and it should work fine in tmpgenc. Try select open all files(*.*) or batch convert all .dat files to mpg with vcdgear.

[csin]

Doesn't Virtualdub open them all if they are named like that (item0001.dat,item0002.dat). Just be sure to select the Automatically load linked segments in the file->open window.

Tried with Auto load linked seg.
Not sure why mine isn't doing it. VD doesn't provide any error messages either. Can only load one at a time.

And what kind of .dat files do you have? I can only think of VCD mpeg1 .dat files and it should work fine in tmpgenc. Try select open all files(*.*) or batch convert all .dat files to mpg with vcdgear.

It's a vcd photo slide show. I'm trying to extract the pictures into jpg or turn it into DVD format.

[jagabo]

The DVD spec supports MPEG 1 video from VCD but not the audio (though many players will play the MP2 audio). So don't extract images, just remux into an MPG container and author. Mpg2Cut2 can import multiple DAT files (though it may complain, and getting 200 files in the right order might be a problem), then save as MPG. VirtualDub's auto append only works with AVI files.

It looks like other programs have problems reading appended file output from Mpg2Cut2 -- they only see the first video.