Encoding apps, what are my options

[earlygrace]

I am looking for an alternet application to re-encode .M2V files to a lower bit rate and leave me with a .M2V file which I can use in DVDSP?

I have tried FFMPEGX several times and I'm unhappy with it as I can not control the bitrate and it always turns out to low.

[markusb]

minx transcoder http://www.hillmanminx.net/

[timbo22]

Bitvice is amazing, but its commercial and Im still yet to figure out how to make things sync.

[earlygrace]

Thanks, but I think that bitvice will only wqork with qt files not .m2v, I will give minx transcoder a go.

Cheers

[SIMPLE_THINGS]

Thanks, but I think that bitvice will only wqork with qt files not .m2v, I will give minx transcoder a go.

Cheers

Use Diva to convert the ".m2v" file to ".mov" (Diva is free and faster than QT!) and then encode the movie with BitVice: if you wanna *quality* this is the best solution on mac!

[timbo22]

Simple THings,
Ive been doing exactly this (osex m2v -> diva (mjpega) -> mov -> bitvice -> pulldownX). The problem is just about every movie I do comes out out of sync slightly (some start fine then become out of sync at some point, other start out of sync). Any ideas?

[SIMPLE_THINGS]

Simple THings,
Ive been doing exactly this (osex m2v -> diva (mjpega) -> mov -> bitvice -> pulldownX). The problem is just about every movie I do comes out out of sync slightly (some start fine then become out of sync at some point, other start out of sync). Any ideas?

No, sorry, any idea. It never gave me sync problems...
(well, in Diva I chose PAL DV not mjpegA but I don't think this is the problem...)

I just used Minx this weekend and it seems to work great for what you and I wanted to do with it. I used OSEx to rip the elementary streams (ac3 and mv2) out of a dvd. Then I select em both and drop em onto Minx Transcoder and click the pulldown button and hit the start button. It will automatically figure out at what bitrate to reencode the video so that it will fit onto a DVD-R, even though DVDSP will warn you about the file size it exactly fits.

A@ron

[zilber]

I agree. Transcoder is the best solution that I have found so far. If anyone knows a better way, please let me know. What I like about transcoder is how little has to be done. Yes there might be something better than this, but it might require 10 steps and > 24 hours... I wish that there was a fix for the > 2Gb QT, because the export to mpeg-2 option is really nice and fast...

[earlygrace]

I finally got a chance to use transcoder and it it great, super fast too. Only took 2 1/2 hours to transcode a 6Gb file. had sync issues at first when I used the add pulldown option, but this is what I did that resulted in a perfectly sync movie.

Here is what has worked the best for me for fitting a DVD9 to a DVD5, No menus just the movie but it is shit simple.

01 Rip the main track with DVD Extrtactor.

02 Use Minx Transcoder, setting= fit to DVD, DO NOT select ad pulldowns.

03 take the .M2V file that Transcoder reduced for you, and drop it on MPEG Telecine.

04 Take that resulting .M2V file plus the AC3 file and import it into DVD Studio Pro, build disk.

05 Burn the resulting VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders in Toast.

worked perfectly with TORSTORY2 and CASINO, if you like you can add your own menu and jump points in DVDSP.