What files should be on an SVCD?

[bongoj]

I am trying and trying to get a two hour home movie from Premier to an SVCD using a frame server (videotools 0.93 Premier plug-in) to the latest TMPGenc to burn with VCDeasy. Everything works great except the SVCD will not play on anything. It locks up any computer I try to play it on and any DVD player says no disc. The file before burning plays well (almost, something is not quite right as the picture is chopped at the sides and the vertical seems to be stretched) and the sound is fine. But once it is burned, no dice. I can look at the file structure with Explorer so I was wondering if someone could tell me what I should see. Maybe there is a file missing. Even so, I can go to the MPEG folder and try to play the file in it but still does not work. Any suggestions? Thanks.

[darkobserver]

First of all: I am no expert myself, but since none of the resident gurus has replied, here's my 2 cents.

A 2 hour-movie on a single SVCD? How did you do that? An SVCD won't hold that much video under normal circumstances. Did you follow one of the guides on this this producing it?

Give us some more details, if you can. Which template you used, what was the source material, how big was the resulting MPEG-file etc.

I'd recommend trying to turn it into a VCD or XVCD, the latter -providing you use a constant bit rate setting and low resolution- could hold 2 hours of video. And probably play on your DVD player.

[bongoj]

No, I did not try to put it all on one disc. Actally it takes 4 discs to get it all on an SVCD. I chopped it up into 4 pcs using Tmpgenc MPEG tools. Each one of the parts plays fine if I go directly from the hard drive where it is stored. It's when I try to burn that it does not work. That's why I was wondering what files should I see on the SVCD. I get 4 folders. 1) EXT which has a scandata file in it. 2) MPEG folder with an AVESQ01 file 3) SEGMENT folder with no file in it and 4) SVCD folder with 4 files in it. Is this what should be there or is something missing? Not sure to ask anything else since it all works until I burn the disc. Thanks.

[Tivo Homer]

Did you look under the DVD Players section on vcdhelp.com to make sure what CD media type your DVD might support in VCD mode? For instance, my Sony can play VCDs but only on CD-RW media not on CD-R media.

Here is a quick link to the DVD Players section. http://www.vcdhelp.com/dvdplayers

Good Luck.

Tivo Homer

[darkobserver]

Tivo: Good point there, I forgot about that.

And bongoj: On your PC most files will play fine. It's quite often after re-encoding/burning and getting the player to "eat it" when the problems start.