Did I screw up? Do I have to do this again?

[eli2k]

Ok last night I encoded a movie with the TMPGENC thing. I set the settings to stuff like: I used a SVCD template from someone, I put Non-Interlaced, aspect ratio to 16:9 525 lines, the perserve aspect ratio number 1, and then started to encode. Well, something happened and at 99.9%, it screwed up. Do I have to reencode? Ugh...I probably will but I need more input. I chose to encode with the Automatic VBR and set it at 80%, up from 70%. Does it make any difference? I'm trying to encode The Matrix and I don't know what percentage I should put it at. This thing took 14.2 hours.

Thanks.

[Mars-L]

Just burn it ! You might miss 2 seconds of of the "movie payrole" but hell who cares about who backed the pizza's for the crew )

Eventually remux in TMPGenc (MPEGTools) and burn. You'll see it'll work.

[eli2k]

Really? That's good. I have one more question, though. When I run the MPEG file in PowerDVD, it let's me seek up to about 1 hr 58 min. Then if I click on the seek bar after that, it just pops back to the previous spot. I have to let it play thru. Also, the movie is supposed to be 2 hr 16 min, but it only shows 2 hr 8 min, even though it plays thru the end. Furthermore, when I try to run the MPEG file in Windows Media Player 8 (the one in Windows XP), it refuses to play and can't find any codec.

Sorry for all this, but will everything be corrected after that REMUX thing? Is that what you do to cut the MPEG up into pieces so it could fit on CDs?

Thanks.

[JazzyDaz]

It would have been easier to have encoded the film in parts, by selecting the source range in the advanced menu in TEMPGenc rather than encoding the whole movie to have to cut the final mpg.

[eli2k]

Oh, well I just followed this one tutorial. Maybe I'll try that next time.

[Mars-L]

Media player of Windows (incl. XP) is just capable to play standard VCD/MPEG1. It cannot handle (X)SVCD, and indeed it's trying to download the right codec and sometimes even freezes then.

[kinneera]

Media Player is capable of playing SVCD (MPEG2) files if a software DVD player (WinDVD, PowerDVD, etc...) is installed on the machine, as those programs provide an MEPG2 codec.

[Mars-L]

Tell me how then ?
I do have WinXP and WinDVD installed....but; no MPEG2 support.

[kid07]

well, if u find a solution, let me know too.
cuz media player used to work with mpeg2 with powerdvd installed when i had win98. but since my upgrade to XP, media player won't play mpeg2 anymore even with powerdvd installed.