2004-10-06, 10:44 PM
Yes, they just mpeg2 files, but to play them on the mvp you need to convert their sound track to MPEG1 Layer II.
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2004-10-06, 11:52 PM
Sub,
I know nothing about the various MPEG file formats, but given what you just said, would it theoretically be possible to somehow seperate the audio from the video in realtime - push the video out the mvp unconverted - and then be converting the audio as required in realtime before pushing it to the mvp? If this were possible then perhaps the CPU requirement for converting realtime to an MVP compliant format wouldn't be so high? Or maybe I should snap out of this dreamworld I live in....?
2004-10-07, 12:13 AM
because you've already had to rip the DVD to hard drive (removing the encryption in the process) to even get that far, you might as we'll run a utility to convert the audio to MPEG1 layer II.
Stop asking me about this folk. Its not anywhere on my to-do list at this stage. Maybe if I run out of other stuff to do, I'll reassess this position. Its just too much work for what I consider too little gain given there are already tools to allow to convert the DVD into a format the MVP can play...
2004-10-12, 09:39 AM
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2004-10-12, 01:58 PM
Search for dvdx on sourceforge - its a freeware utility. To get it via labdv you have to pay as you need to be a member of that site to get anything,
DVDx will convert your dvd's to VCD or SVCD. To be honest if you want to play your DVD's you'd be better writing a util to rip the main movie as one vob with DVD Decrypter, demux the audio, convert it to mp2 and remux it. Vobedit may be useful, but unless you want to re-encode or transode your files, I would look for a solution which only needs to convert the audio. cheers, Colin.
2004-10-12, 10:12 PM
There's the rub - what utility (apart from Womble - I can't justify buying it just to convert audio) can be used to separate the audio and convert to MPEG layerII format?
2004-10-12, 11:02 PM
go to videohelp.com or doom9.org. There are utilites but you need to do some backreading on these things. For examples, there is besweet - search on google for that
Colin.
2004-10-14, 11:55 AM
Ok, here is my suggestion for allowing you to play DVD's from your HDD. It takes a little bit of time but unless someone wants to put a version of mpgdec which supports the converstion of ac3 to mp2, then our choices are limited.
I did the following which works: 1. Rip DVD to HDD with DvdDecrypter 2. Transcode with rejig (in ifo mode) at 100% both audio and video. Rejig will correct time delays in ac3 streams. 3. Convert ac3 stream to mp2 stream with BeSweet 4. Multiplex a new mpg using mplex (from mjpegtools, also packaged with cuttermaran) to create a playable mpg on the MVP. Now I think Rejig could transcode directly from DVD so you may be able to skip the DVD Decrypter stage. All these utils have command line interfaces so you could write a script/app around this to do it all for you - no doubt one already exists somewhere. Cheers, Colin.
2004-10-15, 06:22 PM
Perhaps my experience of reencoding VOBs to MPG files isn't typical. I have yet been able to reencode a DVD without audio sync problems. Moreover even if I hadn't had such problems I'm not sure it's worth the hassle. For example I recently tried to reencode a 6 minute VOB. It took 20 odd minutes to complete and the quality was nowhere near DVD quality. Unless you can create a high quality flawless MPG in a matter of minutes I would suggest simply playing the DVD back through your PVR card (PVR250 in my case) and recording the playback as if it were a TV broadcast. Obviously this takes as long as the running time of the movie but it works and produces high quality MPG files.
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