trouble with reMPEG 2

[combatant]

Hello,
I have been successful at ripping and burning DVD movies under 4.3 gigs. However, after ripping a large movie and finding out the m2v and audio files are over 4.3 i go to reMPEG 2 to scale it down, but I am running into problems. At the final phase, I hit encode and allow it to run for several hours, but when it reaches 99 percent complete, it continues to run and run non-stop. This is after it has been running for 8 hours. I use Smartripper to rip it. Are there other programs better than reMPEG2
thanks

[cfitz]

TMPGEnc is the classic for doing mpeg encoding:

http://www.tmpgenc.net/e_main.html

Unfortunately, the freeware version no longer does mpeg2 encoding. For that you need to purchase TMPGEnc Plus at Pegasys:

http://www.pegasys-inc.com/e_main.html

www.vcdhelp.com is a great resource for video related questions.

cfitz

[combatant]

Ok,
I have download TMPGEnc Plus. However, when I try to open the .m2v of the movie i ripped, i get an error stating the format is not supported.
please help
combatant

[boblx2]

Of course the correct answer to this question is CCE. However I doubt you will be able to get CCE as inexpensive as Tmpgenc or Rempg2. But if you can get CCE you will appreciate being able to process your files in 2 hours or less instead of 8 hours. Plus the quality never takes a hit no matter how small you make the file. Well from a practical viewpoint anyway. Once I squeezed a 13 gig file onto a 4.7 gig disc and got a quality hit but that was the only time I ever noticed it.

Hope this helps.......

[cfitz]

Of course the correct answer to this question is CCE. However I doubt you will be able to get CCE as inexpensive as Tmpgenc or Rempg2.

LOL - yeah, CCE is speedy, but at $250 for the lite version and $1950 for the full version, it sure doesn't come cheap...

Combatant, as for not being able to open the .m2v file, I presume that means whatever you used to rip the movie recorded a non-standard mpeg2 stream, or at least one that TMPGEnc can't decode with its new Cyberlink and Ligos decoders. Rumors have it that the decoder(s) TMPGEnc used before version 2.5.7 (version 2.5.4 specifically) were more forgiving of oddball or non-compliant mpeg2 streams. You might try searching for the older version, or re-ripping with a different ripper.

Check through the forums at www.vcdhelp.com and www.tmpgenc.net for more help.

cfitz

[cfitz]

Here combatant, look through these and see if anything helps:

http://www.vcdhelp.com/tmpgenc.htm#problems

cfitz

By the way, moderators (and combatant, for future reference) this thread really belongs under General Software Questions - at least that's my opinion)

[F1Pilot]

I've found that although reMPEG2 asses out at 99%, the resulting M2V file is still fine and workable. I just cancel it out and work on through...no problemo.

For ripping, I'll use DVD Decrypter.

F1