MPEG to AVI conversion?

[fanofdool]

Okay, here's the deal.

I have a large MPEG I cannot open in Quicktime, but I *can* open it in mPlayer. I need it in AVI format.

What are my options?

P.S. I saw the other MPG to AVI thread, but it dealt with converting it from MPEG to AVI within quicktime: Something I can't do if I can't *open* the MPEG in Quicktime.

 

[live4ever]

Use ffmpegX, but it all depends on what you want to do with it - avi is just a container - what codec must it be encoded with to be useful?

 

[ChrisFromCanada]

Use ffmpegX, but it all depends on what you want to do with it - avi is just a container - what codec must it be encoded with to be useful?

I second that, even though it is somewhat difficult to install.

 

[Nermal]

Is it an MPEG 2 file? Installing Apple's MPEG 2 codec will allow QuickTime to open it, and you will then be able to use the Export function in QuickTime Player.

 

[fanofdool]

I need to edit the file (splitting, omitting some stuff) and burn it to a DVD.

<<Is it an MPEG 2 file? Installing Apple's MPEG 2 codec will allow QuickTime to open it, and you will then be able to use the Export function in QuickTime Player.>>

I don't know, but it won't open in QT and I do have the Apple MPEG2 codec.

 

[fanofdool]

Okay, I installed ffmpeg but for some reason it won't work. Here're the properties of my video:

Mpeg 2 Program Stream File [Video/Audio]
Muxrate: 2.67 Mbps
Estimated Duration: 40:00.71s
Aspect ratio 1/1 (VGA)
Interlaced, chroma format: 4:2:0
Size [480 x 576] 25.00 fps 2.56 Mbps
Audio: Mpeg 1 layer 2
224 kbps 44100 Hz
Stereo, no emphasis

When I click "play" it plays fine. But when I try to encode it as any Xvid, any MPEG2.. it says "Error when opening file."

Any ideas?

 

[live4ever]

Can you open it VLC or Mplayer? What's the source (looks like a PAL SVCD)? Post the complete error log from ffmpegX (blue i button in ffmpegX progress)?

The only way I've found to edit mpgs is with the Java application Project X in OS X natively.
http://www.oozoon-net.de/progs/projectx/ProjectX-v0.81.8-20040904.zip

Also you could try running it through Gumby to try to fix it.
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/13964

 

[fanofdool]

Encoding started on Sun Sep 12 21:46:24 PDT 2004
## Component Manager: attempting to find symbols in a component alias of type (eat /IPIX/iPmh)
## Component Manager: attempting to find symbols in a component alias of type (imdc/MP42/MSFT)
## Component Manager: attempting to find symbols in a component alias of type (mhlr/iPmh/iPXC)
usage: movtoy4m -w width -h height -F a:b -a a:b [-s] [-f] [-o ppm/y4m] movie.mov
example: movtoy4m -w 352 -h 288 -F 25:1 -a 4:3 pal_normal.mov
example: movtoy4m -w 352 -h 240 -F 30000:1001 -a 16:9 ntsc_wide.mov
pipe:: Error while opening file

And it's a PAL SVCD source, yea. I wanted to burn it to an NTSC DVD.