problem with playing/burning a MPG movie

[Sephirot]

Hi,

I downloaded a movie which is 797 MB (or 816,748 KB or 836,350,076 bytes) according to Gspot.

It is an MPG, length is about 85 minutes.

Now i can't get this file to play with any program i've got, except for VideoLAN. All other programs give video stream errors (unknown file format, unknown video stream encoding, etc...)

In the title, it says "SVCD", which seems pretty much correct looking at the length of the movie.

But when i try to burn it with Nero 6, it give an error too, and when i discard the error, it won't burn and quits. Re-encoding does not work too.

Any suggestions? I want to fit it onto an 80/700 CDR, it doesn't nessesarily have to be an (S)VCD.. Any help is appreciated!

[ying0yang]

well , if it's really a mpg file 85 min. long , forget it , you can't burn it in 1 cd.

you can burn on 1 cd about 800 megs /80 min. vcd mpg file.

now for playing it try powerdvd maybe the file is in mpeg2 stream .(dvd mpg)

try to open it in tmpgenc . and tell us what happen.

need more info . can't do better

good luck

[Sephirot]

tmpgenc says cannot open, or unsupported.

powerDVD plays it fine too, just as VideoLAN, so it appears to be an mpeg2 stream indeed.

You said

well , if it's really a mpg file 85 min. long , forget it , you can't burn it in 1 cd.

.. from what i've read/heard, you can usually burn up to about 705mb/85min onto a CDR, without overburning... this seems logical, as most movies downloaded off IRC/Kazaa are sized to fit onto a CDR (like 719.000Kbyte for an AVI, which is about 703mb).
In this case, the title stated "SVCD" and the size was much more (818mb) than would fit onto a CDR in data. So it makes sense that this file is intended to be burned as SVCD, for it is almost 85 minutes.

I hope what i just wrote makes sense...

Anyway, i hope with this info, you can help me some more...

[ying0yang]

if tmpgenc is giving you an unsupported error ,

and you got tmpgenc free version for more than 30 days, so the mpeg-2 plugins is no longer working . <

try to buy the mpeg-2 plugins or maybe you can have it free

then if you can open it , it was a mpeg-2 stream.

otherwise i know you can use dvd2avi convert mpg to avi then reconvert it the avi to vcd with tmpgenc.....but it's more easy with mpeg-2 plugins in tmpgenc.

hope it work