New tool: MVPRecode

[sixgun]

I think i may have mis-understood what this does.

At first i thought it would take an MPG file and basically add the correct height black bars so that it will play properly on a 4:3 tv without all the people looking tall & thin.

But reading a bit more, i now think it basically re-encodes avi files into MPG files.


Which is it?

Regards.

[Doc]

Something is wrong can`t open the file.

[jksmurf]

Probably because of this issue. Some guidelines there to d/l it.
http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=14098
Cheers,
k.

[Ton]

Heel Sylv

Hi,

I am trying for a while to play vob files on my MVP without success. I have tried with XDVD without success. Now, I am trying the avenue of transcoding first and your solution seems quite interresting. However, I experience some difficulty. I get the following error message:

C:\RECODE>mvprecoder c:\recode\in\video_ts\VTS_07_1.VOB -o c:\recode\out\video.mpg
MVPRecoder version: 0.2
Analyzing: c:\recode\in\video_ts\VTS_07_1.VOB
- Audio Codec: a52
- Video Codec: mpeg12
Error: Unable to detect FPS! System.Exception: Unable to detect FPS!
at MVPRecoder.MainClass.analyze(String cFile)
at MVPRecoder.MainClass.Main(String[] args)
at MVPRecoder.MainClass.analyze(String cFile)
at MVPRecoder.MainClass.Main(String[] args)

Would someone have any suggestion on the issue? Is that something I have to configure in the xml config file? I have looked and see nothing. By the way, I am in North America on NTSC.

Thanks for the help.

Sylv

Could you please try (if this is a DVD-copy) to specify the directory name instead of the filename? I.e.

mvprecoder c:\recode\in\video_ts\

That way the tool will detect that it's actually a DVD copy....

If that still doesn't work, could you please post a snippet of the first few seconds of the VOB-file? That way I can have a look...

[Ton]

Hello sixgun,

I think i may have mis-understood what this does.

At first i thought it would take an MPG file and basically add the correct height black bars so that it will play properly on a 4:3 tv without all the people looking tall & thin.

But reading a bit more, i now think it basically re-encodes avi files into MPG files.


Which is it?

Regards.

Well, it actually does both. It takes any input file-format that mencoder can handle (that's a lot!) and recodes it to correct ascpect ratio MPG for playing on your MPV. So it basically takes almost any video-file and reformats it for correct playing on your MVP (converting frame-rate, fixing aspect-ratio and in the size you want).

Hope this makes things more clear.

[sylv]

Heel Sylv



Could you please try (if this is a DVD-copy) to specify the directory name instead of the filename? I.e.

That way the tool will detect that it's actually a DVD copy....

If that still doesn't work, could you please post a snippet of the first few seconds of the VOB-file? That way I can have a look...

Hi,

I have tried your suggestion, still does not work but I get a different error message:

C:\RECODE>mvprecoder c:\recode\in\video_ts\ -o c:\recode\out\video.mpg
MVPRecoder version: 0.2
Analyzing: c:\recode\in\video_ts
Error: Unable to detect file format! System.Exception: Unable to detect file format!
at MVPRecoder.MainClass.analyze(String cFile)
at MVPRecoder.MainClass.Main(String[] args)
at MVPRecoder.MainClass.analyze(String cFile)
at MVPRecoder.MainClass.Main(String[] args)

Regarding the vob, I don't know how to post only few seconds.

Thanks for the help,

Sylv.

[Ton]

Hey Sylv,

There's one other thing I can think of:

Could you run the command:

mplayer -v -identify -frames 0 dvd:// -dvd-device c:\recode\in\video_ts\ > output.log 2>&1

and post me the resulting file??

I'll then have a look and see what's going wrong...

Regards,

[gnicholls]

Hi,
I've just grabbed your package. I want to convert my boy's elmo dvd's so I can play them on the mvp.
When I run mvprecoder, it says it can't find the source file.

C:\Program Files\gbpvr\mvprecode>mvprecoder e:\video\elmo\"a magical halloween adventure"\video_ts test.mpg --noboost
MVPRecoder version: 0.2
Error: File does not exist: e:\video\elmo"a System.Exception: File does not exist: e:\video\elmo"a
at MVPRecoder.MainClass.Main(String[] args)
at MVPRecoder.MainClass.Main(String[] args)

taking the quotes off doesn't make a difference. If I run a 'subst' on the path I get the following:

C:\Program Files\gbpvr\mvprecode>mvprecoder z:\video_ts -o test.mpg -noboost
MVPRecoder version: 0.2
* Dvd format detected.
Analyzing: z:\video_ts
Error: The system cannot find the path specified System.ComponentModel.Win32Exce
ption: The system cannot find the path specified
at System.Diagnostics.Process.StartWithCreateProcess(ProcessStartInfo startIn
fo)
at System.Diagnostics.Process.Start()
at MVPRecoder.MainClass.analyze(String cFile)
at MVPRecoder.MainClass.Main(String[] args)
at System.Diagnostics.Process.StartWithCreateProcess(ProcessStartInfo startIn
fo)
at System.Diagnostics.Process.Start()
at MVPRecoder.MainClass.analyze(String cFile)
at MVPRecoder.MainClass.Main(String[] args)

Any ideas what I've done wrong ?
Thanks,
Greg

[Ton]

Well, I think that I (or C#, can't remember), expects the quotes to be around the whole path.

Don't know why the subst isn't working, haven't tried myself. If you can't get it to work the other way, I'll have a look at that.

Anyhoo, here's what I usually do with filenames that have spaces in them:

C:\Program Files\gbpvr\mvprecode>mvprecoder "e:\video\elmo\a magical halloween adventure\video_ts" test.mpg --noboost

Nice thing about that is that you can use the NT/XP file expansion (it works the same way).

Hope that helps,

[gnicholls]

No luck. I get the same answer with a subst as well.

C:\Program Files\gbpvr\mvprecode>mvprecoder "e:\video\elmo\a magical halloween
dventure\video_ts" -o "e:\video\elmo\halloween.mpg"
MVPRecoder version: 0.2
* Dvd format detected.
Analyzing: e:\video\elmo\a magical halloween adventure\video_ts
Error: The system cannot find the path specified System.ComponentModel.Win32Exc
ption: The system cannot find the path specified
at System.Diagnostics.Process.StartWithCreateProcess(ProcessStartInfo startI
fo)
at System.Diagnostics.Process.Start()
at MVPRecoder.MainClass.analyze(String cFile)
at MVPRecoder.MainClass.Main(String[] args)
at System.Diagnostics.Process.StartWithCreateProcess(ProcessStartInfo startI
fo)
at System.Diagnostics.Process.Start()
at MVPRecoder.MainClass.analyze(String cFile)
at MVPRecoder.MainClass.Main(String[] args)

It seems to be able to detect that it's a dvd so I'm wondering if it's mplayer or some other dependent file it can't find. Any pathing requirements for this ?
Ta,
Greg.

Update: I tried direct from a dvd in the drive and got the same result ...