VCDImager won't accept my MPEGS, but NERO will

[gcallard]

Hi.

Subject says it all really! I've been making VCDs with Nero for a good while now and always had perfectly acceptable results. I use TMPGEnc and Nero has never complained about the type of file it produces from the PAL templates.

VCDImager however won't have it. I get error messages like this:

++ WARN: track# 0 not a multiple of 2324 bytes
++ WARN: mpeg stream shorter than 75 sectors
++ WARN: could not determine mpeg format -- assuming it is ok nevertheless
INFO: writing track 1 (ISO9660)...
INFO: writing track 2, MPEG2, UNKNOWN (0x0/0.00fps)...
finished ok, image created with 525 sectors (1234800 bytes)

Any ideas? The same MPEG works fine with Nero. I've tried using XML source generated automatically and manually (my own code) the results are the same. I also tried converting my original AVI to MPG using bbmpg and the result was the same. My original AVI is MJPEG captured using Studio DC10+

Cheers
GC

[bbb]

Have you tried this procedure:

1. Demuxing your mpg file with Tmpgenc's Basic Demultiplex (in File Menu ... Mpeg Tools section).
2. Then Remux with BBmpeg while being sure to use 0 in the Forced Mux rate to calculate a compliant mux rate.
3. Finally letting VCDImager to create the VCD image file.

Remuxing with BBmpeg using 0 Forced Mux rate always makes compliant VCD/SVCD mpg files that work perfectly in VCDImager. However, I only work with NTSC.

[gcallard]

Hi,

Thanks if I have any more hassle I'll give that a go. However I found out what I was doing wrong. I'd tell you about it in detail but I already feel like too much of an idiot for making such a daft mistake! I'd writen some batch routines to make it easier to parse xml and call different utilities...I'd transposed some file names by mistake and was trying to run xml through vcdimager instead of vcdxbuild! Doh!

Cheers,
Gavin.