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Convert2MPEG

why? i just really wanted to be able to watch it on my tv and add the cd's to my collection of crow dvd's.

for some reason it was a bit of a hassle, due some kind wierd frame rate and it being in quicktime format.

i decided to go for an ntsc mpeg1 with a higher bitrate than a standard vcd and create an mpeg2 version using an svcd profile.

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what you'll need:

Instructions

  1. install tmpgenc, copy the mov plugin into the tmpgenc folder
  2. install "super"
  3. use tmpgenc to fully process the video into mpeg, i have only tested ntsc. unfortunately there is no audio in the final mpeg for some reason, so we haven't finished yet!
  4. use 'super' to extract the audio from the .mov file into .mp2
  5. use tmpgenc to demux the video stream from the mpeg file, to create either a .m1v or .m2v file depending on whether you are using mpeg1 or mpeg2. it will also create a .mp2 audio file which you can discard. the mux/demux options are hidden under File -> MPEG Tools.
  6. use tmpgenc to mux the new audio and video streams! (the audio stream you extracted using "super")

my mpeg1 file ended up being about 160MB and the mpeg2 one was 330MB, and to be fair i don't think that the quality is much different between them.

normally i just use some software called PRISM for all my video convertions, but it didn't like the quicktime file.