Help! VCD probs!

[Kyle]

After capturing NTSC VCD video, converting from avi to mpeg 1 through tmpg, and making a cue file through VCDEasy, I tried to make a vcd through CDRWin. I noticed that instead of 11 minutes, it said 12:38 minutes. I tried burning and tried it on my DVD player. Instead of saying it was VCD 2.0, it said it was VCD 1.1 and it didn't work. What was my problem?

[Kyle]

I also looked at the disk on my computer. It said that 170 mb was used, but there was nothing there. In a cd I made earlier with vcd clips I downloaded off the internet, there were folders and stuff and I was able to run the dat files in windows media player.

[Kyle]

Here's a sample mpeg I made. Its a clip from CNN. If someone could download it and tell me what's wrong with it or if you have the same problem with it as I do if you try to make a cue file, that would help me out greatly.

http://www.blarg.szm.com/cnntest.mpg
(almost 1 mb, 5 seconds long)

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Kyle on 2001-12-16 08:37:56 ]</font>

[Vejita-sama]

Ok, I looked at your MPEG and it looks ok to me. 352x240, MPEG1, video=1150kbit/s and audio=224kbit/s. When you try to create a bin/cue file in VCDEasy you did select VCD 2.0 and not 1.1 right?

Also your file seems to be called xxx.mpeg, rename it to xxx.mpg. I doubt this is the problem, but...

Also are you using a cracked verison of CDRWin? If so keep in mind that CDRWin is known to burn coasters if you crack it. I would try burning w/ CDRDAO (you can do this from w/in VCDEasy. Make sure you've d/loaded the newest ver 1.0.5 from http://www.doom9.org ).

I was able to burn the MPEG and play it no problem (it is padded thou) so that explains the 11min vs. 12:38. You can fix this by de-muxing w/ TMPGenc, then remux w/ bbMPEG and disable padding (should be default for VCD).

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Vejita-sama on 2001-12-16 08:57:10 ]</font>

[Kyle]

Thanks! Everything works great. I must admit that I was using a cracked version of CDRWin. I was tired of recording at 1x speed. The reason why I was using CDRWin in the first place was because I couldn't get VCDEasy 1.04 to make the CD. There was something wrong with "generic-mmc" or something, even after I forced the driver. After updating to 1.05 this morning, I noticed the problem was gone. Thanks again.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Kyle on 2001-12-16 09:52:01 ]</font>