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Title: Mamewah and MNG
Post by: Kook on February 01, 2005, 01:14:22 am
Mamewah is a great frontend. I don't know if this is the right venue for wishlist items, but I'd love to see MNG support added, i.e. if it can be done without too much trouble and without increasing the footprint too much. Before I found Mamewah, I used Advmenu, and the Crashtest MNGs were great.
Title: Re: Mamewah and MNG
Post by: Minwah on February 01, 2005, 06:13:19 am
Unless a DirectShow filter is available for it anytime (if you know of one let me know) I doubt I will add MNG support  :(
Title: Re: Mamewah and MNG
Post by: rockmes on February 01, 2005, 07:03:43 pm
Minwah, wasn't there another post on this forum about a guy who wrote a program on converting mng's to avi's? Whats happened to it? Did he post you the program ,like he said he would?

Rockmes
Title: Re: Mamewah and MNG
Post by: Silver on February 02, 2005, 11:15:37 am
Yeh that was me  ;D program works (for me) and Minwah's got a copy although I don't think he's tried it.

I'm currently experiencing "technical difficulties" at home (read: No OS what-so-ever) so I can't get it at the moment. I'll provide it for anyone who wants later this week....
Title: Re: Mamewah and MNG
Post by: Minwah on February 02, 2005, 01:52:59 pm
Quote from: Silver on February 02, 2005, 11:15:37 am
Yeh that was me  ;D program works (for me) and Minwah's got a copy although I don't think he's tried it.

Yep I have it but haven't tried it yet (got stuck into some programming of my own)...if you want let me know & I can post it for you...
Title: Re: Mamewah and MNG
Post by: rockmes on February 02, 2005, 09:47:35 pm
l want to try it cos l have a collection of mng's l want to try and convert.
you think you could post it to me.
Title: Re: Mamewah and MNG
Post by: Kook on February 02, 2005, 11:50:15 pm
Here is my experience converting MNGs to AVIs. I downloaded various programs from all over the place, and made a batch file that went something like this:

1) Use ADVMNG to convert each MNG to a bunch of PNGs
2) Use ABC (Advanced Batch Converter) to convert the PNGs to BMPs
3) Use MP3DECODE to convert each MP3 to a WAV (assuming each MNG has an MP3)
4) Use BMP2AVI to make each AVI (and mux the audio with the AVI)

Unfortunately, I could never get the sound and video synchronized. Plus I never found a CODEC I was happy with (either the AVI was too big, or the quality was too poor).

So I gave up. I'm not saying it can't be done, but I'm starting to wonder if it is worth the effort.

Kook
Title: Re: Mamewah and MNG
Post by: Silver on February 03, 2005, 11:06:23 am
Yes it was definately fiddly getting it done - its why I threw together a program - it's basically a glorifed batch program.

You have a few unecessary steps in your program. I found the best steps were:

1)advmng to unpack the mng to png.
2)virtualdubmod will create an avi from the pngs and the mp3.

This way there is no video quality loss from apart from your own compression, and the mp3 is muxed directly in. Its reasonably quick too.

A few other people have asked to, so I'll stuick the program up on my website soon.