[linux-dvb] mplex and TMPGenc

[Manfred Schmidt-Voigt <Manfred.schmidt-voigt@mannitec.de>]

Dear all,

yes, yes, yes I know, it's a question about one of these Windows tools but I
think the difficulties (Please remark: I don't say :Problems) are derived
from a Linux tool.

I use mplex from the 0.82 DVB-release with -t MPEG2. Then I copy the output
from the LINUX VDR-box to my Windows workstation because of the much
stronger CPU and somtimes more comfortable (sorry LINUX purists) but not
always stable software. With TMPGenc ( to the LINUX purists: its a nice
freeware(until now)tool to encode the MPEG2 stream to SVCD with a nice GUI
and not all these commandline steps with two days of downloading the
different tools and compiling and chasing the compile or link errors and
loading again some libraries etc (I think you know??)) I tried to encode
this stream to SVCD. But it stops allways after about 60% of the supposed
time of the file. Also WinMediaplayer set the overalltime of this file (ok
its a BillyBoy tool, but...) to about 60%. After demultiplexing and
multiplexing again with TMPGenc the runtime is OK and it is also fully
encoded but the audio is now not really in sync with the video. I have
compiled now VDR with a maxfilesize(?) of 400 MByte. So the result is not to
bad. But my question is:

Why is it not possible to mplex the file at the first point of the chain in
a way that many window tools will understand it really??? (Tausend Ameisen
können sich nicht irren)

I have seen all these discussions on this list about standards etc. But a
standard can only become a standard when it is usefull for many people.
Otherwise it is only theorie.

Kind regards
Manfred

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