Nero will occupy a whole CD-R for a 200 Mb MPEG-2?

[Khizhiy]

It is a very strange thing that is happening to me. I am trying to create an SVCD with Nero 5.5. I choose the proper Super Video CD template, and when I drop a 200 Mb long MPEG-2 encoded video to the compilation, the resulting track occupies the whole CD-R capacity and beyond!!! Has this thing ever happened to you also? How to handle it?

[sean madison]

yes i have!!

As of yet, there is no work around for that.
As far as i can see, ALL nero versions 5.5+ can NOT burn non compliant movies correctly.
They all think that EVERYTHING is standard even if compliancy is unchecked.
My advice, dl v 5048 and burn now

[nvost361]

Sean,

Is that true for vcd's also? I get differences in video performance and readability when I uncheck the compliancy boxes.

[phelix]

I had someting similar happen once (Nero padding the mpeg file) and solved it by remuxing with Tmpgenc. This was with an xVCD so I not sure if this would work with an MPEG2 file.

[Khizhiy]

Yes, indeed, I got a message prompting to choose either to reencode the video or to switch off the compliancy with SVCD standard. I did the later. By the way, the ecnoding was done with CCE SP 2.52 (plugin for AP6) and settings that I thought were SVCD compliant. May the so called packet size be the key? What is the right number for it?

[kinneera]

CCE can generate the video stream to SVCD spec, but it won't multiplex it properly for SVCD.

[bachkhoa]

Khizhiy,

I think your 200MB filled up the entire CD-R is because when you created a VCD, the CD will be closed disk (vs closed session), therefore, you don't have any more 'space' for another session. Check the entire disk for used space to see if this is a case.

For the quality of 'standard' vs 'non-standard'. I have used Nero to burn my SVCD and the quality was poor (with fast motion) when I played on my standalone DVD. If I play it on my computer, the motion looked 'perfect' (as I expected). I tried the mpg file and got the same result.

I then use VCDImager to create the bin/cue and burned it with CDRWIN, the movie looked better on my stand-alone player. I don't know if this is because of Nero or not. I read somewhere in the forum that someone explained about the Field Order. I always use Field B (Bottom) when I decoded. I will try Field A (Top) this time and burn directly from Nero to see what's the outcome.

I used only TMPGEnc (v2.02) so I'm not familiar with other encoders. I'll let you know the result later.