What does Codec MP43

[destin5440]

I have downloaded some movies from Kazaa and it says they are Codec MP43. How do I convert those to a VCD so we can watch on DVD player?

Thanks...we want to have a movie night tonight

[KingJohn]

You need to install the Mpeg4 Codec, this one comes as V2,3,4

Search for "Mpeg4 Codec.exe"


contains
mpeg4fix.inf (Installer)
Mpg4c32.dll

But don't tell Microsoft I told you :P

[destin5440]

And then I do what??? Sorry to be so dumb. I'm a single mom trying to make some movies for my kids...

[KingJohn]

Gosh....

Well once you install the correct codec, you can play/edit the AVI on your computer. Without the correct codec you wont be able to do anything.

The next Movie you download might have been made using a different codec, so then you need to install that one. There are not many, so don't go installing lots of them unless you really need them.

Nimo Codec pack is good and so is Divx 3.11 Alpha.

So you have the right codec's installed, and you can play the AVI on your computer, next you need to make sure the AVI has no junk frames, so you use "Virtual Dub" to Scan for them, if it finds any you only need to set video to streaming and audio to streaming and save out another copy.

If it finds no bad frames you can move on to the next step

Load the AVI into TMPGEnc, at the bottom there is 3 BROWSE buttons and a LOAD button, next to the Video source click the Browse button and find and open the AVI.

The audio will automatically be filled in with the same file. Next hit the LOAD button and select a template, there are 2 to choose from, NTSC or PAL, The USA uses NTSC the UK uses PAL, open the correct one to set up TMPGEnc (These are the VCD templates)

VideoCD (NTSC).mcf
VideoCD (PAL).mcf

The Output file will be your Mpeg, so click the last Browse button and select a location on your hard drive to save the file.

Click Start...

Go make the kids lunch and came back in a hour or so....

You now have a Mpeg movie ready to be placed on a disk, you can use Nero, Easy Cd (Video CD) or Video pack 5, all of those programs will "author" VCD..

Oh, most movies are downloaded in 2 parts, each one goes on a disk on its own, as described above. But now and then the high quality ones come as one large file around 700Mb + these AVI's will make a mpeg that is too big for one CD, so you need to split them in half for each disk.

Well that's the short version, but you need to start somewhere, I'm sure if you get stuck you will let us know...

Good luck, your going to spend a lot of time before you get the hang of things...

[mrsthelens]

King John
What happens when you d/l the mpeg4 codecs and it still
wont play any sound.Any ideas,the film ive d/l'd has
Windows Media Audio V2, 64 kbps, 44 kHz, stereo (for audio/video)
in the details.

[KingJohn]

Who knows what people are using these days to make these movies you need to have everything installed, then they usually work.

The AVI might contain a AC3 audio or a Highly compressed Mp3, start with the obvious install the "Nimo Codec pack" that usually fixes most things, but not all

Sometimes the movie becomes corrupt during download, sometimes loading into Vdub and saving another copy out using Video/Audio set at streaming, will fix those problems.

Give the Nimo Pack a try, that should fix it ?

[mrsthelens]

Cheers for that king john
work'd a treat

[KingJohn]

Good 8)