Batch conversion of MPEG-2 files

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  • meirionwyllt
    Junior Member
    Junior Member
    • Feb 2004
    • 19

    Batch conversion of MPEG-2 files

    I am currently working on a DVD montage of clips from DVDs or from DVB recordings. I have the clips ready to go but I am having difficulty joining them together because some have different bitrates, due to being recorded from different sources. They are all MPEG-2, but some are from DVDs, some from freeview, where some channels use different audio bitrates to others. Of course I could go through them one by one with TMPGEnc, de-muxing, re-coding the resulting MP3 file, then re-muxing, but we are talking about nearly a hundred clips here, some only a few seconds long. Is there a program that will batch encode the video/audio in all these clips, to convert them into "DVD friendly" bitrates so that they can be joined together?
  • setarip
    Retired
    • Dec 2001
    • 24955

    #2
    "They are all MPEG-2, but some are from DVDs, some from freeview, where some channels use different audio bitrates to others."

    If you don't mind having each of them as a separate TITLE on one DVD, you can use "TMPGEnc DVD Author" (Different than "TMPGEnc" and "TMPGEncPlus") to readily accomplish this (by loading EACH clip as a "new track", using the "Add new track" radiobutton.

    You can obtain a FULLY functional free 30 day trial version of this commercial program at:

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    • meirionwyllt
      Junior Member
      Junior Member
      • Feb 2004
      • 19

      #3
      good idea. thanks, I will try that.

      will the DVD player be able to cope with all the chopping and changing between clips? I don't want there to be any pause between them. Also, as I haven't yet decided on the running order of the clips, will DVD Author allow me to preview/experiment with the running order so that changes can be made throughout, before I actually author the VOB files?

      thanks.

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      • ormonde
        Digital Video Explorer
        • Dec 2003
        • 3735

        #4
        meirionwyllt

        An alternative to "setarip's" suggestion would be to join the clips with a program called "AVSVideoConverter".

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        • setarip
          Retired
          • Dec 2001
          • 24955

          #5
          "I don't want there to be any pause between them."

          There WILL be very short pauses between the TITLES...

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