Way out of specs SVCD

[mats.hogberg]

I'm playing with a rip, where I want to keep the AC3 audio, and author as SVCD(!). I know, it will prolly not work, but I've gotten so far as to encoded the video and muxed it with the AC3 audio. Now, VCDEasy (VCDImager) refuses to author it as SVCD (Here's the output if I try the XML from VCDEasy "by hand"):

C:\Program\VCDImager>vcdimager.exe -t svcd "C:\Documents and Settings\videocd.xml"
++ WARN: initializing libvcd 0.7.12 [cygwin/i686]
++ WARN:
++ WARN:  this is the UNSTABLE development branch!
++ WARN:  use only if you know what you are doing
++ WARN:  see http://www.hvrlab.org/~hvr/vcdimager/ for more information
++ WARN:
   INFO: scanning mpeg sequence item #0 for scanpoints...
++ WARN: mpeg scan: pack header code (0x000001ba) expected, but 0x3c3f786d found (buflen = 1854)
**ERROR: input mpeg stream has been deemed invalid -- aborting

Can I persuade VCDImager to accept my out of specs mpg, or do you have any suggestions for alternate routes to take?

/Mats
Update: I Tried my pet hate Nero (in it's 6.0.0.23 incarnation) and after turning off compliance, it went ahead (no pun intended) and burnt a SVCD! Will be exciting to see what my DVD player has to say about this CD...

[mats.hogberg]

Well, my standalone played the disc allright, but without audio. Back to good ole MP2 audio.

/Mats

[Ejoc]

I tried that before and had the same result. I did think of one way that might work, but I never tried it.

You could try making the SVCD image w/ MP2 audio, use some mounting software to copy the SVCD file structure, then replace the AVSEQ00.MPG with the one with AC3 on it. Then burn that new file tree.

[mats.hogberg]

Well, I managed to author successfully with Nero, but no sound at playback - I guess it's a too wierd combo (SVCD/AC3) even for my standalone.
Since SVCD is much about sectors and stuff, I think just replacing the avseqnn.mpg wouldn't work, if the two versions aren't of exactly the same size, but I might be wrong.
I also didn't know that you could write to a mounted ISO file system file, but again I might be wrong...

/Mats