ok the title was slightly misleading but it does have to do with avis so i figured i would ask. Who knows??

first i need a good avi joiner i have Pecks power joiner for avi but my files do not seem to work with it too well.

ok here is my thing. For those of you with a playstation, Sega saturn,etc you might have seen some computer programs made that will lift the fmv's(full motion video) off a game and convert it to an avi file. i have these and they work fine. i encode them as vcd from there and all is well, but i recently lifted from one game and now have 20 small avi files. i tried the Power joiner but it said something was wrong with the format and it would not join them. Do any of you know any other avi joiner. The panasonic encoder encodes these avis fine so i know the files are ok.

the next question is since they have these programs for the playstation and Saturn have any of you seen,know, or possibly make one that can lift the fmvs off the older Sega cd titles (16bit and or 32x titles). For once i would love just to lift all the footage from night trap and turn it into a nice vcd movie. Any help would greatly be appreciated. thanks

-- Doug (mazinz@aol.com), March 09, 2000

Answers

you could encode them all first and try MPGjoiner unless they have to be avi's. I have never used this program before but judging by the name it should work.

-- shane (madunga@mailcity.com), March 10, 2000.

i can encode them easily with the panasonic encdoer. But is annoying running in the room every few minutes to load up a new file. i wanted to make all the avis one big one so it encodes the whole thing at once.

-- Doug (mazinz@aol.com), March 10, 2000.

Panasonic has a batch file processing option to save you from running into the room every so often to load a new file to encode. You first open the file you want to encode, set the encoding parameters (processing charcteristics, output file name, etc.), then save it as a*.prj file. You do this for the rest of the files, and soon you have a list of *.prj files. Then you simply click on batch processing or encoding, then add all those *.prj files, and hit start encoding. Your AVIs now automatically get encoded one by one.

-- EMartinez (epmartinez@yahoo.com), March 11, 2000.

where can i get these programs that extract the fmv from psx and saturn games?

-- ndumu (ndumu@hotmail.com), March 11, 2000.

if you do a search their all over the net do something like playstation utitlites or Saturn download, but instead of me looking on my faves for all the urls i am just going to email you the programs.

-- Doug (mazinz@aol.com), March 11, 2000.

EMARTINEZ,

thanks for the info, can you beleive i was not sure how to get the batch option to qwork until you told me. Thanks again

-- Doug (mazinz@aol.com), March 12, 2000.

Doug, u tha man!

-- ndumu (ndumu@hotmail.com), March 13, 2000.