Need help dividing a Xvid file

[mightytrax]

Hello, i am a new member and i have a question, i want to divide a xvid file into 2 pieces to so i can burn it on a cd asa vcd. The name of the files "Undercover.Brother.DVDRIP.XviD-RSP.mpg". I tried to divide it with a program called "TMPGEnc", took me hours but i divided one half out, but the piece of shit has no sound.... i dont know what to do. Can anyone help???

[setarip]

I don't know what procedures you applied when attempting to use TMPGEnc, but the following procedures only take a few minutes:

This can be easily and precisely accomplished using TMPGEnc. Under the "Files" dropdown menu, click on "MPEG Tools" and select the "Merge & Cut" tab. Make sure to change the mode to "MPEG1-Video CD". Load your file and enter a new (.MPG) name in the "Output file" box. Then doubleclick on the ORIGINAL file's name in the window, which will bring you to the cutting area. Select your desired start and end points for the first half, click on "Okay" which will bring you back to the first window and generate (in a sequence of three automated steps) the first new file. To create the second new file, repeat the steps starting with "Then doubleclick on the ORIGINAL..." (be extra patient with the second half, as the program has to do more seeking to establish the beginning of the new file).

[The Edge]

Are you sure the file is a mpg file? Look at the filename. I mean, if it XviD, i ain't a Mpg file then. Could be an avi just renamed to .mpg which is common if you downloaded it from any P2P app. Tried opening it in VirtualDub.

Edge

[mightytrax]

It is an AVI file, im an idoit.. I tried to do what setarip said to do.. but it didnt work, since its and avi, now i tried to use virtual dub, and it worked, only took 2 minutes, but now the sound is sooooooooooo ****ing off key. When i loaded the virtual dub, it told me

" ... improper VBR audio encoding in the source avi file... rewrite the audio header with the standerd CBR values... this may introduce upto 181308ms of skew form the video stream...

It told me that if this is uneceptable i should decompress the entire audio stream to an uncompressed wav file and recompress with a constant bitrate bitrate encoder. ( 140.3 +- 46.3 kbps)

what should i do?? ALL I WANTED WAS TO BURN THIS MOVIE ON VCD, i gata get thru some bulll....

its over 80 min so i can fit it on one cd...

[The Edge]

Use Nandub instead.
It won't complain about the audio. Yours is VBR mp3 and virtualdub does not like that.

Edge

[mightytrax]

where can i get Nandub, i tried lookin on cnet, i had no luck...

[setarip]

Using NanDub will NOT solve your problem - which is, in fact, that TMPGEnc will not accept a Variable BitRate .MP3 audiostream as input. Therefore do the following in order to:

Convert .AVIs with VBR-MP3 Audio

Simply use VirtualDub to save the audio stream as an Uncompressed PCM (WAV) file as follows:
Load your original .AVI into VirtualDub
From the "File" dropdown menu, select "Save WAV" (Enter a new filename with a ".WAV" extender).Click on "OK"
Then set "Video" to "Direct Stream Copying"
Then save the .AVI as a silent .AVI (set "Audio" to "No audio" after you've saved the WAV file).

First load your silent .AVI and then your .WAV audio file into TMPGEnc.

Let us know of your success ;>}

[The Edge]

Nandub will not introduce the 181308ms of skew. SO he could extract the audio using file/save wav and then rename the file to whatever.mp3. THEN re-encode to a CBR mp3 or wav ready for TMPGEnc. Well that's the way I would do it.

Edge

[mightytrax]

even tho i extracted the sound and did all what u said, the sound is still of key, it seems to me as tho the file is going at a 2 high of a fram rate... i think that slowing downt he fram rate would do the trick... but how should i slow down the fram rate, and to waht?

[The Edge]

Can you list the steps you took step by step.
Was the sound file playing fine on it's own or was that playing at twice the speed too?

Edge

[mightytrax]

when i extracted the sound fiel it was fine, no problem but the video it self is going to fast, and goes ahead of the sound... this is what i did...

i took the orignal file, loaded into virtual dub, saved the WAV as anther file... put on no sound, and saved the movie like that., then i opened the file with no sound, and for the sound i chose the wav, cut it in half and got the problem i have now.. the orginal file has no problems liek this, i dont kno what wrong

[The Edge]

When saving File/Save Wav is is not a pcm wave file your creating. Make sure you rename the file to .mp3 or .ac3, whatever. VDub/NanDud just name the file .wav
If it was a wav, the file would be huge e.g nearly a gig.

Ok, make sure you rename extracted file.

Edge

[mightytrax]

alright, even tho the sound is ****ed up in my computer when i play it, after burning it on vcd its fine.., but there antehr problem... the ENTIRE MOVIE IS UPSIDE DOWN AND MIRRIRED ON THE DVD... WTF IS THIS SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[alwaysblue]

Hey, I encoded that same movie and burned it all with Nero and got the same problem, the damn movie plays upside down....it plays well but upside down!!lol.......what gives????

[setarip]

"the ENTIRE MOVIE IS UPSIDE DOWN AND MIRRIRED ON THE DVD"

I'm guessing that you didn't use TMPGEnc to create the MPEG1-VideoCD (and then NERO JUST to burn as VCD [NOT create VCD and burn]). This problem seems only to arise when you use NERO to BOTH convert and burn VCDs from Xvid files...