Re: Age old question...MM2 and MPEG

From: Rehan (someone_at_somewhere.com)
Date: 08/27/04 

Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 06:36:49 +0100

You have following options:

* Buy a tool to work directly with MPEG2 files. I know that VideoReDo can
edit MPEG2 without re-encoding and is therefore extremely fast.

* Use Link2 (non-free)
This program is designed to add additional input formats to programs who can
read AVI files. it creates a psuedo AVI file (in seconds) that creates a
link to the original source non-avi fle (e.g. MPEG2). You can import this
AVI file into Windows Movie Maker and do the editing without actual
conversion.
http://www.videotools.net/index.php?rub=guides&htm=intro2link2.htm

* Or do the above manually: (free) using AviSynth (http://www.avisynth.org/)
and VFAPI reader codec. 

-- 
Rehan
www.rehanfx.org - get transitions and effects for Windows MovieMaker
"Terry" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0f6601c48bc8$1739f1d0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> Note: I am re-asking the question as 2.1 was released
> recently, and I can import my files into WMEnc9.
>
> To give you an idea of my starting point/version, I
> slipstreamed SP2 into an XP install.
>
> I am capturing video with an ATI AIW Radeon into MPEG2.
>
> I can open these files with WMP9, WMEnc9, but not with
> MM2.1.
>
> The age old error message is "filename.mpg could not be
> imported. An interface has too many methods to fire
> events from"
>
> Initially, the only suggestion I found on PapaJohn's
> website and aside from an interim conversion.
> http://www.eicsoftware.com/PapaJohn/MM2/MM2.html
>
> I want to eventually compress to a wmv using a bit rate of
> peak 3000, average 1200, no resizing of the video, and
> with the comercials cut out.  The problem with an interim
> conversion is that the comercials typically weight on the
> peak and push the wanted content to the low side of the
> average.
>
> The next logical step is to capture with a specific
> codec.  What codecs are supported.  I have found web pages
> (listed next) that say what file types MM supports and
> that not all MPEG2 codecs are supported, what codecs WMP
> supports, and what pixel format to use when capturing.
>
> But they do not list what MPEG2 codecs MM2.1 does support.
>
> File formats supported by Windows Movie Maker in Windows XP
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=308464
> "The MPEG2 format has several codecs that are not
> supported by Windows Movie Maker"
>
> Windows Media Player for Windows XP supported codecs
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=291948
>
> Producing a High-Definition Windows Media Video File
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/howto/article
> s/ProducingHDVideo.aspx
> "Capture to a YUY2 (4:2:2) pixel format"
>
> I just found an offsite link listed for ATI cards on the
> PapaJohn's website.  I am going to try this next.  It
> hints that the HuffyYUV codec is supported.
> http://www.digitalfaq.com/capture/atiavi/atiavi.htm
>
> Pinnacle Studio 8 (bundled with the ATI card) manipulates
> the video just fine, but appears to not let you update the
> very short list of compression profiles when rendering to
> a WMV file.  I currently have a query into them about this.
>

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