svcd to vcd error

[ldg123]

I have an SVCD mpeg, and I need to perform the 'vcd header trick' on it to get it to play in my Sony DVD player.

The problem is that there is a glitch in the SVCD. After about 2 mins 30 secs, there's a split-second where the audio and video get garbled. They quickly return to normal. The SVCD plays fine.

When I try the VCD header trick with TMPGEnc, as soon as it hits the spot that is garbled the program cuts off and I end up with a very abbreviated file.

I've tried the different tools and settings in TMPGEnc as well as ][Muxer, and have had no luck. I thought maybe splitting the audio and video and then rejoining them might work, but I still had the same problem with trying to convert it to a VCD header.

Has anyone faced this problem before and found a way around it? Or am I stuck?


EDIT:
I just tried to cut the file into two mpeg files with TMPGEnc, one up to just before the blip, and the other starting after. Every file started after the blip (no matter how long after, tried a few different starting points) has a 0kb size video output, and I get an "illegal mpeg" error message.

[GodOfKnowledge]

If you experience that much problems, I think it wouldn't be that bad to reencode the file to VCD. Of course you loose a bit of quality, but it sounds like you can use the header trick.

[reboot]

Run it through VCDGear mpeg -> mpeg.

[ldg123]

Thanks for the tip, reboot. I'll give that a try tonight when I get home.

[ldg123]

No love.

Tried VCDGear mpeg to mpeg, and TMPGE still stopped at the same point.

Tried VCDGear mpeg to dat, and then VCDGear said it couldn't locate the mpeg video stream.

VCDEasy gave a "bad packets at XXXX remaining XXXX packets will be ignored" error.

So then I tried bbmpeg to see if it could fix it, and it said it couldn't get a time framerate or something similar.

So it looks like I'm hosed. Oh well, at least I have a 19" monitor to watch it on, so it could be worse.

I'm just curious now to find out why the SVCD file can play so well in my software players but can't be converted to any other type of mpeg (or other file types, evidently). There must be some way to repair it.

Maybe I'll try the voodoo chicken leg next....

[reboot]

Try Mainconcept MPEG Encoder. I have had it work when nothing else will.