SVCD to SVCD conversion problem-TMPGEnc

[bebopdeluxe]

Evening all, I am trying to load an SVCD into TMPGEnc but am getting a message that says "can not open or unsupported". I am trying to lower the quality a little so I can fit 2 files on a CD. I have played with the Direct Show File Reader settings all the way from -3 up to 5 and no go. Any ideas or another way to do this??? Thanks!

[wulf109]

Current versions of Tmpeg require you have PowerDVD installed in order to open mpg2 files.

[roach76]

TMPGEnc only encodes to MPEG2 (SVCD/DVD) and won't decode MPEG2 video files, so they cannot be opened directly in TMPGEnc. Use DVD2AVI to create a.d2v file and then open this in TMPGEnc. DVD2AVI wil decode and then 'frameserve' the MPEG2 file into TMPGEnc.

DVD2AVI is available in the 'Tools' section of this site.

[bebopdeluxe]

Thanks for the replies, was just about to try both suggestions when I found the mpeg-2 plugin, it works fine now, thanks for help!

[txpharoah]

TMPGEnc only encodes to MPEG2 (SVCD/DVD) and won't decode MPEG2 video files, so they cannot be opened directly in TMPGEnc. Use DVD2AVI to create a.d2v file and then open this in TMPGEnc. DVD2AVI wil decode and then 'frameserve' the MPEG2 file into TMPGEnc.

WHAT?! No. Not at all. TMPGenc reads MPEG1/2 files just fine if setup properly with needed codecs. Only the TMPGenc PLUS version can encode.

[roach76]

Yeah it reads them, but it is not a part of the package. It must be provided by a third party program. PowerDVD, DVD2AVI, an MPEG2 Codec which decodes them for TMPGEnc. Just like MPEG1, Microsoft's decoder takes care of that, not TMPGEnc.