DVD Encoder Not Recognizing All Movies

[johnharlin]

I'm using the Mainconcept DVD Encoder. I have encoded a number of movies now to the DVD 720 by 480 format for the purpose of creating a DVD to play on a Standalone DVD player. Some of the movies I'm trying to encode are not recognized at all and when I try to open the movie file with the encoder, I get a note saying that there is no video data.

And one movie I'm trying to encode to DVD which is about 7 minutes long, only recognizes the first 26 seconds of the movie. This movie originally is a VCD at 352 x 240 pixels. Bits per sample is 16 and channels are two. It says frames are 786 and length is 26 seconds. It's 7 minutes long not 26 seconds. I went ahead and encoded it anyway but it only encoded those first 26 seconds. How do I get it to recognize the rest of the movie. Is there some special setting I need to use on some of the movies?

[guns1inger]

It sounds like the file is corrupt at around the 26 seconds mark. Some players might ignore the problem and play on, but encoders like everything to be correct. Look in the tools section for a video repair tool. There are a few there, although I can vouch for any of them.

You could also try leaving the video, as VCD is DVD compliant once the audio is upsampled to 48kHz. DVD Lab and Tmpgenc DVD Athor can do this for you.