Major SVCD to DVD Errors when converting...

[yodandy]

Ok, so I take the cd's that my svcd's were on, make an image using alcohol 120%,

Isobust the image, extract the .mpg, (I get a few errors during the last like, second of extraction, I ignore all and it extracts fine and plays in a mplayer fine...)

Check for errors in virtualdub, nothing, try to convert them and get nothing...

Any possible solutions? I dont think its my source, they seem fine...any other video error scanners than vdub?

Heres my log... http://yodandy.monkeypals.com/ign/log.txt

[Callan]

Ok, so I take the cd's that my svcd's were on, make an image using alcohol 120%,

Isobust the image, extract the .mpg, (I get a few errors during the last like, second of extraction, I ignore all and it extracts fine

Hi Yodandy!

What surprises me is the amount of work some people succeed in doing for something simple like getting an MPEG from the CD it was burnt unto. Remember, every program has its bugs, and every operation increases the risk of introducing errors, or complicating existing ones. So why first make an image, and then extract the MPEG from the image?

I don't have SVCD discs. I thought them highly unpractical. And uneconomical as well. Forty minutes per CD? C'mon! ..

When I want to use the source material from VCDs (almost 80 minutes per disc), I may either copy their AVSEQ*.DAT files to the harddisk, rename them, and use VCDGear on them, or let VCDGear access the disc immediately.

VCDGear, unlike Alcohol 120% and IsoBuster, is freeware. I am told, though obviously I cannot check this in practice, that it copes with SVCDs as well as VCDs. The present Windows (GUI) version is 3.55.

The copying approach is used when I suspect there may be problems physically reading the disc. It takes less time to copy files from a disc than rip them, so I want to find out whether there are read errors -which can possibly be corrected with special programs- during a COPY rather than during a RIP.

I must say I have never tried to let SVCD2DVD cope with the .DAT files after renaming the extension to .MPG. It seems it is capable of doing so, with the help of a DOS version of VCDGear.

Most important, in both cases, it is to check the "Fix mpeg errors" option in VCDGear, -or the appropriate one in SVCD2DVD.

Callan