I downloaded a movie off the net, which has 4 parts, all in *.cue and *.bin files. I can write them individually with Nero, with no trouble. What I want to do is to somehow concatenate these, into ONE movie file, so that I can burn a DVD-R instead. I have access to both Windows XP and FreeBSD systems. Thanks...
Well you will need something to mount the bin/cues onto a virtual cd drive! then use a program called VCDEasy. If its a vcd then the movie is in the MPEGAV folder, if its SVCD, the mpeg2 folder. It should look something like avseq01.dat. When you have it mounted on a virtual cd drive, open VCDEasy and click tools and click the mpeg tools button. Now at the end of the program you will see cdxa2mpeg. This is where you need to specify the dat file and where you want to save the mpg! when you've that dont click convert and after a few mins an mpeg file will be on your computer and it will be well capable of being put on a dvd-r!
Thanks, I downloaded VCDEasy... but I'm not certain about how to mount these on "virtual drives" - is there a trick through Windows XP I can do, or a specific application that will do this. Thanks!
I managed to get the mpeg streams out of there, by converting the files from RIFF to real MPEG with VCDEasy - no need to mount them to a drive, et al, since you can interact with the filesystem on a VCD CD-R. Now, to get the lot joined and into DVD-R, which I'm not able to figure out. Though these *.bin/*.cue files were created with GNU VCDImage, the format is not "compliant" with SVCD. So, not sure about this yet.
Thanks again for the pointers. The movie I have is in 4 parts, and I'd like to join them all together prior to burning to DVD-R. Other than doing this manually in Premiere (which will take a very long time), I wonder if there's an easier way... ? I tried finding something on the net about that.
DVTool didn't work very well. I ended up with an MPEG file that only had a portion of the audio, and some problems with TMPGEnc returning "Invalid MPEG file" in the sound/audio conversion.
TMPGEnc may have a problem with the fact that its mpeg-2 i think you can get a codec for that somewhere!!
This is what I see happening.. I take the raw *.mpg data from the *.bin files (which is really a RIFF *.dat format) and convert it to mpeg. That results in 4 mpeg files. I've used a program to join them together and it plays just fine with Windows Media Player. But when I go to demux this, the audio file is shortened to what I believe consists of sound from the first part only (of four). So, something is marked off in the audio wave that makes other utilities think it has the entire audio track. When viewing the beginning and end of the separate parts (converted from RIFF to MPG), it's evident there's something going on as the first image is very "pixelated" and the last part seems to be missing some video images. I'm not really able to figure out how to fix this. It's frustrating. At the very least, I tried burning these to SVCD using Nero. The first part worked fine, but Nero's conversion did something such that the audio track is not synchronized with the video and the video had a choppy effect to it. Very confusing some of this is.
I had the same problem...the jumpy video, as if it were playing every other frame, and the audio not sync'd, after burning svcd .cue & .bin files with nero. The cue and bin files were encoded using dvd2svcd. Is this a nero problem then? I was startin to think it was an encoding problem... - Somewhat confused.
I'm wondering if I need to import these "parts" into Adobe Premiere and re-render them. Then try burning from that image? I imported them into Vegas video, and could clearly see the audio tracks being shorter than the video - so I didn't use it. Though I rather like Vegas Video's faster rendering time(s). By the time I figure this out, the movie will probably be on DVD anyways... sigh.
