CANT COPY SVCD MPEG FILE TO HD FROM DISC

[Nine11eighty3]

I got a copy of [my cousin wedding], 4 VCDS long perfect uality but it will not let me copy the mpeg file to my HD. it says some data cannot be read or written , under ownership priviledges i tried to change this but i cant. i also tried to rip it str8 from the VCD disc using FFMEGX and still wont let me. I was trying this so i could maybe bypass this problem and just re-encode. if anbybody has any idea. feel free to respond. :P

[major]

Use VCD Copy X to copy the VCDs in your hard disk.

[Nine11eighty3]

thanks for the help but it still isint working right. it saves the file to my HD as a .dat file and what i want is the mpeg off if it so i can use moremissing tools and join all four mpegs together ( one of each CD) if im not explaing this corretly please let me know.

[Din^^]

hi,

rename the .dat files as .mpg or .mpeg

[Nine11eighty3]

after i rename what should happen . my goal is to put all mpegs together so i can put them on a drd-r instead of having 4 svcds

[Nine11eighty3]

help?????? come on

[galactica]

Here is the solution

Put the disk into your comptuer. Make a disk image form the disk
Use toast or perhaps disk utility

Toast is what i use and it always works.

Once you have imaged the disk, you will have somethign like movie.toast

Mount it

Use VCDgearX to extract the mpeg2 file from the mounted image

You now have a mpeg2 file on your harddrive

This is the only way that i have been able to do this. IN fact, any SVCD that is on a disk already and you want to watch on your comptuer needs to be reburned into a HD image before you can use it in video lan or any software that you want to extract or edit the movie files.

Tell me if this works, 10 out of 10 times it does for me

[galactica]

You will then be able to take each mpeg2 file and put them together onto a dvd.


cant say that ive rejoined the mpeg2 files myself, but im sure there is a way.

That file can most likely then be burned to a single dvd-r
Best of luck

[Nine11eighty3]

still wont work even when i try to make disc image with toast. it starts to make image and then an error comes up saying some sort of read error. this svcd is read only. is there any way i can get around this?> ive triedd to make a disc image. if you want i can post some screen shots of the problem. but this is a DVD quality version of LOTR TWO towers. it is a copy for an awards review. there seems to be no wayn around the problem. any expert opinions would be greatly appreciated. galatica not saying your help wasnt good. seems that the problem is greater than some think COME ON EXPERTS!! IF more INFO is needed please reply otr PM me and i would be glad to give more info. thanks guys.

[erw]

The Mac OS can't read data from VCD or SVCD disks. The disk is the wrong format. I suspect its really an anti piracy device... Anyway thats why you need to use VCDcopy to copy the .dat to the HD.

You can then import into quicktime and export the video as DV to maintain quality. Then join in Quicktime (can't just join mpegs- I'm sure you could with QT3). Save the joined file allowing dependancies and drop that into iDVD...

However 4 SVCD's will be longer than 90min which is all you can burn to DVD with iDVD. Which means you will have it spread over more than 1 DVD. Possibly DVD Studio Pro lets you do more but you will lose quality and then whats the point???

Easiest option...just watch the SVCD's

PS thats A LOT of wedding footage!!!!!

[Nine11eighty3]

yeah it was an awesome wedding. but anyway. why would quality be lost in DVDSP? what would the difference be when importing to idvd or dvdsp>? DVDSP takes m2v which is mpeg-2 correct? oh are you saying when i use quicktime they will then be in DV format? if so can you go from DV to m2v. or does DVDSP take DV? im new with vcds, but im good with dvd replication of weddings of course.

[Nine11eighty3]

one more thing. if MAC OS cant read it would i be able to do this process with my PC?

[erw]

If you can squeeze 3hrs of video on a DVD in DVDSP I would imagine you would loss quality. iDVD puts 60min of video onto a DVD, but will also do 90min if you let it compress it more at the cost of a little quality.

Remember you are not just transfering the mpg files from the SVCD to DVD. They have to be resized to 720x576 from 480x360 (roughly) the SVCD standard to the DVD standard. So they will take up more space. Its not just a case of 4 x 650Mb files being moved. Is that what you mean?

This will all be done when you convert to DV.

You could try a PC but I don't know anything about that...

[Nine11eighty3]

when i tried to convery from .dat to dv i tried to open and it had no sound

[erw]

Have a look a this thread:-

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=141239