DV500 v4.5 drivers, MP2 editing

ErMaC · Post by **ErMaC** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 3:31 am

OK Quu, I suppose a good 3/4 of this question is directed at you because I know you're probably one of the few to try this.

I've got my new computer with a fresh WinXP install, fresh Premiere 6 install (patched now to 6.0.2), and I've ripped a DVD (GunSmith Cats, this is for the DDR project video I'm doing).
I've run the ValidTC program on the bare M2V stream, renamed it to .MP2, then imported it into Premiere. And it works! With one problem.

The field order keeps changing.

I didn't notice this til I hooked it up to my external monitor. Without fail, periodically the field order will swap and everything will become jerky as hell, but the it'll switch back to normal. It almost seems like it's doing it at scene changes, but that would mean that the DVD itself is changing field orders (which I don't think is possible) or the drivers are performing some sort of realtime dynamic field order fixing and messing it up.

I'll test this on another DVD tomorrow to see if the same thing happens. Any ideas on what the cause might be? If I can't get this working it's back, yet again, to AVISynth for me.

post-it · Post by **post-it** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 5:41 pm

2 cent's worth . . as a MOD . . when this happens to sub's, we have been told by the subbers that DirectX-9 solves the Playback Problem on these XP encodes.

from my viewing point . . I have played those encodes on Win98 1st ed through Win2K and DirectX-9 does correct these encodes; however, without DirectX-9 . . they jerk - 5 frames at a time!

I never found-out why it does this, I've only been told that "there is a correct for this problem!"

Quu · Post by **Quu** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 5:55 pm

hum... that is strange... honestly I don't know... thas not happened to me yet with a DVD... I moved away from the native MP2 editing and now use AVISynth, but then convert that to a DV file for the realtime effects with the DV500

it might be the mpeg-2 chanign field orders through out the file?

try it with out running ValidTC

ErMaC · Post by **ErMaC** » Tue Jul 15, 2003 1:16 am

Without Valid TC, it won't even import the file.

Uh and Post-it, I have NO IDEA what the hell you're talking about, you sure you posted in the right thread? It sounds like you generated that response out of a Mad-Lib or something.

Tab. · Post by **Tab.** » Tue Jul 15, 2003 1:18 am

he's foreign

anyway, since when is mp2 reserved for mpeg 2 streams, isn't that supposed to be mpeg 1 layer II audio?

ErMaC · Post by **ErMaC** » Tue Jul 15, 2003 11:17 am

Yes and no, Pinnacle and a few other people use .MP2 for MPEG2 Video Streams, as opposed to MPEG1 Layer2 Audio Streams. It's confusing, but I know that I don't have 2GB Mpeg1 layer2 audio files.