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I read a post from mgolobay that Lady Digital had provided a method for this. I hope someone will post this method. I have worked out the following method, but it is a little more painful than I like...
1) Feed ReMPEG2 version 1.5.2 AC3 conversion tool with the vro file and output MPA file (I used 160 kbit/sec audio output). This worked fine, but was slow. It probably took 2 hours on my 1.5Ghz Athlon, but it yielded a good audio stream.
2) Use TMPGenc version 12H "Merge and Cut" tool to "cut" *.vro file. I use quotes around cut, because there is really no cutting, just conversion. I fed the first frame as the first frame of the cut and the last frame as the last frame of the cut (so nothing
was eliminated). Output the video. It goes through the video, then gets "confused" with the audio, so it just gives MPEG2 file with no audio in it as output.
3) Use TMPGenc 12H Demultiplex tool to remove video stream from the MPG file above.
4) Use TMPGenc 12H Multiplex tool to multiplex the audio from 1) with the video from 3) producing yet another file which is now MPEG2 video and MPEG audio.
5) You must cut with an editor which manages variable bit rate video. Unfortunately none of my standard frame accurate choice
editors do this. The most hope so far is TMPGenc and a program called MPEGTool in conjunction with M2-EDIT. MPEGTool seems to do non-rendering frame accurate cuts. Unfortunately you have to enter the frame numbers without being able to see the video. That's where M2-edit comes in... to feed you the desired frame numbers. By the way, M2-Edit will cut the variable bit rate MPEG2, but will output in constant bit rate (an awful thing... 1.0 GB files become 4.0 GB). The TMPGenc merge and cut tool works great, but I don't know if it is close enough to frame accurate for our needs (producing invisible transitions between DVD chapters).
By the way, I think that later versions of TMPGenc also work fine. I just had 12H loaded up and running at the time I did this.
Again, if someone has another method for this, I would love to hear it.
1) Feed ReMPEG2 version 1.5.2 AC3 conversion tool with the vro file and output MPA file (I used 160 kbit/sec audio output). This worked fine, but was slow. It probably took 2 hours on my 1.5Ghz Athlon, but it yielded a good audio stream.
2) Use TMPGenc version 12H "Merge and Cut" tool to "cut" *.vro file. I use quotes around cut, because there is really no cutting, just conversion. I fed the first frame as the first frame of the cut and the last frame as the last frame of the cut (so nothing
was eliminated). Output the video. It goes through the video, then gets "confused" with the audio, so it just gives MPEG2 file with no audio in it as output.
3) Use TMPGenc 12H Demultiplex tool to remove video stream from the MPG file above.
4) Use TMPGenc 12H Multiplex tool to multiplex the audio from 1) with the video from 3) producing yet another file which is now MPEG2 video and MPEG audio.
5) You must cut with an editor which manages variable bit rate video. Unfortunately none of my standard frame accurate choice
editors do this. The most hope so far is TMPGenc and a program called MPEGTool in conjunction with M2-EDIT. MPEGTool seems to do non-rendering frame accurate cuts. Unfortunately you have to enter the frame numbers without being able to see the video. That's where M2-edit comes in... to feed you the desired frame numbers. By the way, M2-Edit will cut the variable bit rate MPEG2, but will output in constant bit rate (an awful thing... 1.0 GB files become 4.0 GB). The TMPGenc merge and cut tool works great, but I don't know if it is close enough to frame accurate for our needs (producing invisible transitions between DVD chapters).
By the way, I think that later versions of TMPGenc also work fine. I just had 12H loaded up and running at the time I did this.
Again, if someone has another method for this, I would love to hear it.