Can ulead export to a .mpv file type?

jesseforrest · Post by **jesseforrest** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 6:09 am

Hi Guys,

My editor wants me to export my video file in ulead
to a .mpv file type. Is that possible with ulead? If
so, how do I do that?

Thanks in advance.

Jesse

Post by **Ron P.** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 12:25 pm

I'm not real sure what that format is associated with? Have a look at FilEXT.com. There are several possibilities, such as MPEG-1.

Could you provide more information on this MPV file format?

Post by **Ken Berry** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 1:38 pm

Ron -- IIRC it was a 'new' open source format released about 4 years ago and intended to become a universal format for multimedia presentations on one disc, and replace the huge variety of the various multimedia formats currently available. The letters 'mpv' stand for music, photos, video, which gives you a fair idea of what it was about.

I think the intention was to incorporate the format into stand-alone DVD players as well so that they would readily play back discs containing .mpv files. That way, instead of having, saying, mpeg video files, jpeg photos, and mp3 and/or .wav audio files, if they were all encoded as .mpv, then it would simplify things enormously and reduce the current situation where some players will not recognise certain formats or have difficulty with them.

Indeed, it would also mean you could have quite separate audio, video and photo files separately on the one disc whereas currently, with a video DVD, the original files have to be converted to the international DVD standard (mpeg-2 video, LPCM/Dolby/mpeg layer 2 audio) before it can play properly on a stand-alone player.

I also seem to recall Sony having something to do with it, but I could be wrong on that. Maybe they just expressed interest.

Anyway, the long and the short of it is that if it was released 4 years ago and few people have heard of it today, then it hasn't gone very far!!

jesseforrest · Post by **jesseforrest** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 4:29 am

Umm ... not sure if that answers my question or not

Thanks to both of your for your replies. But I'm still confused.

Jesse

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 7:04 am

VS10 and 11 both can accept .mpv files (as video input under the mpeg heading). But I simply don't know if it can export in that format. It is certainly not amongst the various options when I go to Share > Create Video File and select Custom (or Tools > Make Movie Manager). However, I don't have the mpv codec on my computer. So I just don't know that if I did have it, whether it would then appear as an option.

Unless someone else by some miracle already has the codec on their computer and can test it, you might need to be the guinea pig yourself!

Post by **lancecarr** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 9:54 am

Ok Jesse I have searched high and low and I cannot find anything that will encode to that format.
I could find decoders but not encoders.
The question remains as to why your editor wants the file in that particular format?

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 3:25 pm

More to the point, do you yourself have the codec? But to echo Lance's question, I too am mystified as to why your boss wants the final product in a format which, as far as I am aware, cannot be played back in current stand-alone DVD players... What does he intend to play it in???

jesseforrest · Post by **jesseforrest** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 2:11 am

Hey Guys,

Thanks for all your help so far.

It's very much appreciated. I just emailed my editor
the link to this topic discussion and he told me to ask
you guys this question ...

"you need to export separate video and audio streams of a project that can be imported into DVD Studio pro"

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Jesse