Reencoding and DAT and redoing the audio

[cyclonus]

I have some homemade VCDs from India that I'd like to reencode and put on a DVD.

At first I dragged everything into TOAST and it said that I can't mix PAL and NTSC (and I just assumed they were all PAL to begin with).

So I was going to open them in QT and save them in some NTSC format, but I noticed the sound was all on one side, so I wanted to fix it so the sound was balanced.

What would I need to do that? The .DAT files are Muxed mpeg's as far as I can tell.

Thanks, I really appreciate this.

[AntnyMD]

I would use MPEG Streamclip to re-encode but its a lot of steps and you may want something more simple.

As for audio, Asian VCDs sometimes come with two audio tracks muxed into one stereo stream .. left side being one language and the right side being another. Any VCD player will play the right as R+R, or L+L so that you dont hear both languages as the same time. If, for example, your audio is only on the right, and nothing on the left, the player can play the right channel in both the left and right speakers.

[cyclonus]

What'd be real nice is a batch encoder. Something that I can dump a whole bunch of clips into and have it encode them all propperly.

Thanks for the info on the audio.