DVD to VCD probs (i am the prob)

[ferret50]

I have been sitting here for hours now trying to to do the final encode (in TPMDEnc) for a VCD movie and when I press start get an error message saying cant encode to an external device. Have been thru everything this tiny brain can think of.
I am using a write up from www.afterdawn called "DVD to VCD with smartripper DVD2AVI and TMPGEnc".
just out of interest my wav file is 765mb and d2v file is only 324kb is this right ?
can any body please help?
regards

[johns0]

Where is the mpg being encoded to?Have you set a path to your hdd where you want it to go?

[mats.hogberg]

just out of interest my wav file is 765mb and d2v file is only 324kb is this right ?

Perfectly fine. That's the way it should be. That "external device" message seems a little odd tho...

/Mats

[ferret50]

made a folder C:\ rip and tried to put in there, made another C:\VCD
tried to burn direct D:\ didnt work, made lots of folders nothing
scratching head

[ferret50]

the exact message is
"can not be used as external encoder"
The exact files am using are
video source C:\ripped\vts_01.d2v
audio source C:\ripped\vts_01 LPCM TO1 44.1KHz.wav
output C:\vts_01.mpg
These file names were put in by the program as I didn't do it.
Have tried one other thing I used only the video file and changed to
"ES video" and it started encoding relly weird

[ferret50]

found the problem
go into envionmental settings, audio and I the audio engine was use external, change to use internal
have ripped my first DVD movie and playing now on VCD

[mats.hogberg]

Ah - Glad you found it - Happy ripping!

/Mats
PS! If you got toolame.exe somewhere on your box, use this as external audio encoder. Much better than TMPGEncs built in. DS!

[ferret50]

Thanks Mat and happy Xmas
glad to find it in the end it was obvious it was looking for an external decoder, I got it to work a bit yesterday by omitting audio file that gave me a clue
thanks
I hope this might help some other poor bar##std who is ripping hair out
regards to all