| One MPEG file | Create a single MPEG-2 Program (MPEG systems) file containing both audio and video
rather than splitting the audio and video into different files. This is the preferred mode, since it
eliminates the audio/video synchronization problem (assuming that the program you're using to open the
file uses MPEG timestamps properly). Unfortunately the file isn't "liked" by all programs, I have not
yet determined where my file strays from the specification, but any help in the area would be greatly
appreciated. |
| Separate A/V files | Creates two different MPEG elementary stream files, one containing audio
and one containing video. Several other tools are capable of doing this, however you may find that
TyConvert can open some "difficult" TyStreams. |
| Don't skip invalid chunks | I don't know why you'd want to do this, they're invalid, right?
Maybe you just want to see what invalid chunks look like! |
| Microsoft style progress bar | I'll let you figure this one out for yourself. :) |
| Auto-sync audio | This is intended for use with "Separate A/V files" mode. In "One MPEG file" mode
it isn't particularly useful. It is my attempt at automatically figuring out how many audio packets to
throw away to synchronize the beginning of the file. It doesn't work very well. |
| Manual audio offset | This was also intended for use with "Separate A/V files" mode. It allows
you to manually control how many audio packets are thrown away at the beginning. Each packet contains
about 0.036 seconds of audio. |
| Skip first | Allows you to skip a certain portion of the beginning of a file. This is good if
your program starts late, or if there is a bad chunk at the beginning of the file which you need
to skip (which can cause an endless list of "Skipping Chunk" messages). |
| Corrupt file | This causes an invalid packet length value to be inserted into one of the PES
headers. For some reason this causes the files to be accepted by the DVD Express CODEC. I have
no idea why. |
| Convert | Duh. |
| Pause | Allows you to pause conversion temporarily. This is handy if you need to do something else
with your computer for a moment and TyConvert is annoying you by using too many CPU cycles. |
| Abort | Stops conversion, writes the appropriate MPEG end code to the file and closes all files.
It is perfectly reasonable to manually click the abort button if your program ends early. (sort of
like the opposite of the "Skip first" feature) It's also handy if you're just browsing some TyStream
files. I often want to know what's in a file, so I'll click Convert and let it run for a few seconds,
then open it in Media Player. Perhaps I'm not sure and need to look farther ahead, then I'll enter a
time into "Skip first" and do it again. I can very quickly look through my files this way. |
