Dishplayer files

[Fred54]

I purchased VideoReDo hoping that it would help me deal with some files that I have ripped from the hard drive of a 7200 dishplayer. This is a unit that is subscribed to Dishnetwork. When the movies are ripped they are saved as audio.mp2 and video. mpg. When I try to open the video using TMPGEnc DVD Author I get a window that says Could not initialize decoder and it will go no farther. So I thought if I purchased Video ReDo it would help me with these files. However when I try to open the video file .mpg I get an error messeage from video redo that says unable to open the file. In the config window mpg is one of the file types that are listed so I am confused as to why the program won't open with video redo.
I tried to post this in another thread lower down that talks of the same subject but it did not show up so I started this new one. If anyone knows how to get around this problem I would really appreciate the help.

Fred54

[DanR]

Fred54, I see no one has replied yet. I know we have a lot of Dish customers. I'll contact some of them via email and see if they wouldn't mind responding.

[Anonymous]

Fred54,

I do not have a 7200, but, if you join the yahoo group dishrip, there are many posters there who use the 7200. I have a PVR501, and I use dishextract and then dishmux, but that only gives me a *.mpg file, which I can read into videoredo with no problems. I do not understand why you get an mp2 AND an mpg file - are you sure it isn't an m2v file instead of an mpg? I have not been able to get videoredo to read a video file that has no sound, so maybe that is the problem. You can use tmpgenc's mpeg tools to mux an m2v/mp2 combo, and the output from that should be an mpg with sound and videoredo can accept that.

I was thinking that there is already a tool for the 7200 that will output the mpg (with sound) directly from the 7200 extract - that would be something found in the "files" section.

jerrylynnb

[DanR]

Fred, If you're extracting to elemntary streams you'll need to mux them before VideoReDo will edit them. We are looking into adding a mux'r into a future version of VideoReDo.

[Anonymous]

Fred54,

I do not understand why you get an mp2 AND an mpg file - are you sure it isn't an m2v file instead of an mpg?

I was thinking that there is already a tool for the 7200 that will output the mpg (with sound) directly from the 7200 extract - that would be something found in the "files" section.

jerrylynnb

Jerry,
When I do the ripping from the drive I have a file called ts2ps.exe in the same folder as DishRip.exe and this splits the movie into 2 files. audio.mp2 and video.mpg. I believe the ts2ps exe does the muxing as it is being ripped. I have been successful with this method with some of the movies I think 6 or 7 of them but I have three that are giving me trouble.They are Santa Clause 2 , Kill Bill, and League of Extroidinary Men.
Like i said earlier I was hoping that VideoReDo would help me with these difficult ones. I can't get VR to open any of the video files.
Also I really appreciate the help from both yourself and DanR
Fred54