Issues turning m2v into AVI

FAAuraJin · Post by **FAAuraJin** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 7:28 pm

So, I'm making a Xenosaga AMV, and I did all the research and figured out how to do all that I needed to, and I finished getting all the video off the first disk (using the stickied guide on this forum, mostly)
Now, I'm on to the second game, and everything has worked the same as before, untill I made it to the final step:
Changing my m2v files into AVI.
I have a couple different programs that I've tried to use, and all of them are failing.
DVD2AVI freezes up if I try to load any of the m2v's into it.
VirtualDubMod (which I used for most of the first disk) is giving me error message that I never saw with the first game. for one, it says there are multiple audio streams when I move a file into it, but it still loads it up (usually), but when I go to save it as an AVI, I get an error message reading:
Error Decoding MPEG audio frame 0 (0:00): incomplete frame

any idea how I fix this? or know a different program I can use? I really need this second game, its got most of the footage I want to use!

Gepetto · Post by **Gepetto** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 3:55 pm

In virtualdub, go to the streams menu and deactivate all audio streams. That should keep your error message from showing up. If you need the audio, that same menu has a button for demuxing it, so there's no need to keep it in the AVI file.

FAAuraJin · Post by **FAAuraJin** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 8:21 am

It worked for the first video file, but when I tried it on the second, it still asked about stream (I guess I have to turn it off for each of these videos individually, which I didnt have to for the first... weird) but it freezes up during a proces called
"Parsing Interleaved MPEG-1 File", which goes all "not responding" on me and then gives me an "out of memory" error (which is bull, trust me)

Gepetto · Post by **Gepetto** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 8:41 am

Have you tried loading the m2v via AviSynth? Using either DirectShowSource or the DGDecode plugin?

FAAuraJin · Post by **FAAuraJin** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 10:35 am

as dumb as this sounds... I have AviSynth on my comp, got it from the file download on this site (the huge post someone made about how to rip videos), but I cant seem to find the exe... the search continues

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 11:20 am

FAAuraJin wrote:as dumb as this sounds... I have AviSynth on my comp, got it from the file download on this site (the huge post someone made about how to rip videos), but I cant seem to find the exe... the search continues

Avisnnth is a scripting program that can be accessed through other programs like virtualdubmod and the like - there is no exe.

Gepetto · Post by **Gepetto** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 12:59 pm

BasharOfTheAges wrote:Avisnnth is a scripting program that can be accessed through other programs like virtualdubmod and the like - there is no exe.

What you do is create a text file that points to your video and change the extension from .txt to .avs

So what I'd have you do to fix your problem would be create the following script with AviSynth:

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DirectShowSource("C:/yourfolder/yourfile.m2v")

Or this one:

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LoadPlugin("C:/plugin_folder/DGDecode.dll")
mpeg2source("C:/yourfolder/yourfile.m2v")

With quotation marks, but obvously replacing the folders and filenames. Then you'd open said script in VirtualDub instead of the m2v file, and see if you can work with that.

visit www.avisynth.org for documentation, FAQ, guides and whatnot, or just ask us.

FAAuraJin · Post by **FAAuraJin** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 7:20 pm

I am a complete n00b here... when you say create a txt file "pointing to" my video... what do you mean? just type in the link to the video in the file?
also, how do I access the avisynth code to change it? I think I found it once before but had no idea what I was doing. cant remember where it was though >_<

oh, and whatever happens with this, thank you for all your help, Gepetto. I'm kinda lost on this stuff

sayde · Post by **sayde** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 9:30 pm

A .txt file is a notepad document. (you know what notepad is, right?)

1.)open up notepad.

2.)Copy and paste the commands Gepetto posted above into notepad. Make sure to type in the correct location of the video clip on your C drive where it says "DirectShowSource("C:/yourfolder/yourfile.m2v")"

3.)Now save the notepad document. Give it a file name and change the extension to .avs instead of the default .txt extension.

FAAuraJin · Post by **FAAuraJin** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 11:59 am

Ok, well, I couldnt get that to work, I kept getting an arror about not finding the document, although that error was coming up in avisynth *shrug*

What i did find out, though, was that most of my m2v files still worked through VirtualDub, the only reason I got stuck on one, it seems, was because of the size of it. its the longest of the videos I've come across so far, and its 274,000 KB.

if I could find a way to split that video up into, say, 2 or 3 segments, I could probobly capture it. File Splitter doesnt quite work here, I tried it.
if worst comes to worst, I can make do without this one, but it'd be nice to have it