burning vcd compliant cd's

[toddhoc]

Hello...i hope someone out there can help me thru this..i have already burned 3 successful vcds so i can do a little. i download files(usually avi) and then encode them either using tmpeg enc or nero 5.5..i find that when i encode using tmpeg and go to burn using nero, nero usually doesn't consider it vcd compliant and will ask to reencode...ughh..even longer of a wait.i check all the settings to make sure all is ok but sometimes i lose the sound, yet there is both audio and video in the source file. After burning it will play fine on my pc but only get video on stand alone dvd player.Why??? i have updated and various codecs from any previous error messages. it doesn't happen all the time but has given me a major problem trying to burn Chicken Run on vcd. i even went to the trouble of redownloading it from a different source but same thing. ..Any help would be tremendously appreciated..i have been frustrated about this for weeks now and sometimes feel like giving up...i could really use some support!!!
Many thanks,
todd

[vitualis]

If Nero reckons that something is wrong, there probably is.

How are you encoding your MPEGs? What settings?

Regards.

[Zuma]

I have the exact same problem.
i used tmpenc with the video-cd settings and it says its not vcd compliant in Nero, but it doesnt say whats wrong with it.

i burned it with vcd-imager instead and when i play it on a vcd player it plays the sounds very poorly.

the mpg plays fine on my computer.

Zuma

[mikewg]

Make sure you are loading the VideoCD settings. I tried to manually set all the settings myself and i guess I missed something because the video came out really scratchy and jumpy. When I figured out to load the standard settings, everything has been fine every since.

[toddhoc]

thanks for the quick responses friends..however i still lose the audio part of my files..except on the source file thats on my harddrive...in a nutshell i spend maybe 6-8 hrs. downloading a movie file--either avi or mpeg..then i encode it either through nero 5.5 or tmpeg. i usually use nero since it will encode the files and then burn it...i've tried both ways. i've done some testing with some small fluffy little avi files that are 1 or 2 minutes long..they encode and burn and play properly using the methods above both on my computer and on standalone dvd player..but when i try to do the same with bigger movie files the video is good but i get no audio in my stand alone dvd player and on my computer-this is after burning. yet the source avi file on my hard drive plays fine thru windows media player--audio and video--go figure..all the settings are checked and the selected format is vcd or video cd which automatically set the settings to that template.
when i right click on the source avi file and go to details it says the audio is layer 3..now i know it should be layer 2 but when it gets encoded isn't that supposed to change to the acceptable format like vcd--isn't that why we wait 10 hrs. for encoding to complete? my last disappointment was Jurassic park the other night...8 hrs. to download..10 hrs. to encode..and then the burning time only to discover you have no AUDIO!! i am so distraught over this and how it isn't consistent because i have made a couple of vcds from smaller sized files for testing purposes and so on but when it comes to doing it for what you really want it doesn't go right. PLEASE HELP
still hanging on
todd