How to play PAL-VCD in a computer DVD player?

[ozab]

Hello -
Can someone please tell me how to get my PAL-VCD to play in a computer DVD player?
When I put the VCD in the player it does not see it.

Thanks for your help.

[MOVIEGEEK]

What player are you using?
You might try one of the free ones located to the left in Tools.

[daamon]

Hi ozab,

You'll also need an MPEG codec for MPEG1 (which is VCD), if you haven't got it already.

Use AVICodec to list all your codecs to see if it's there.

[duhmez]

Hi ozab,

You'll also need an MPEG codec for MPEG1 (which is VCD), if you haven't got it already.

Use AVICodec to list all your codecs to see if it's there.

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Don't mind this point. Windows comes with an mpeg 1 codec by default. One easy way is open the avseq.dat file in your favorite media player. It will play as is even with dat etension.

[daamon]

Hi ozab,

You'll also need an MPEG codec for MPEG1 (which is VCD), if you haven't got it already.

Use AVICodec to list all your codecs to see if it's there.

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Don't mind this point. Windows comes with an mpeg 1 codec by default. One easy way is open the avseq.dat file in your favorite media player. It will play as is even with dat etension.

...if you haven't got it already.

...just in case he / she's been screwing around with codecs / codec packs etc. or whatever. This can be verified with AVICodec as stated - for the 2 minutes it takes to do it, I think it's worth eliminating that as the problem.

[ZippyP.]

Can someone please tell me how to get my PAL-VCD to play in a computer DVD player?

Just browse to the folder containing the *.dat and play it with Media Player or other DVD playing software.

[mgh]

The VCD will not play automatically-but if you ask your software to play disc it will like a VCD player.

[ozab]

Thanks to everyone for their input. When I insert the PAL-VCD into the CD-ROM drive, I can't even open it buy Right click on the drive and selecting OPEN. Any ideas?

Thanks again.

[ozab]

WHen I put the PAL-VCD into a standalone it plays. So I know the disc is not corrupt. I want to able to see the files of it on a computer DVD -ROM.

[MOVIEGEEK]

Use IsoBuster and look for AVSEQ01.DAT.
You might want to update your firmware at www.rpc1.org

[ozab]

ok! After installing ISOBuster, I was able to view the content of the PAL-VCD and I was able to extract to my hard drive as MPEG.

But, when I try to bring this file into Pinnacle Studio (video editing program) it sees the files as PAL.

Anyway to get around this to convert the MPEG to NTSC format?

Thanks for you help again.

[MOVIEGEEK]

You will have to convert it to NTSC using TMPGEnc,etc.

[ozab]

MoiveGeek - I downloaded TMPGEnc Plus and I told it to convert to MPEG but it created M2V file. My computer does not seem to recognize this M2V file. How do I create a regualar MPEG , AVI file. to play in my Standalone DVD player?

[daamon]

Hi ozab,

file.m2v is the video only component of an MPEG - it has no audio in it. You can change it to file.mpg and it should be OK, but it still won't have any audio...

[ozab]

How do I change it to .mpg format?

[daamon]

Step 1:



Steps 2 and 3:



Then click once on the file to highlight it, press F2, press "End", and then delete the wmv and replace with mpg.

[ozab]

That worked great! Now I think this will be my final question. Since my editing program does not accept MPEG2 files, how do I change this MPG to MPEG1 fromat?

Thanks again for your kind help.

[daamon]

Hi ozab,

Glad it worked...

As for MPEG2 - MPEG1, I've not needed to do this so I won't try to give precise advice. That said, I believe you'll need to re-encode it.

It'll be covered in the "How To... Convert" guides to the left.

Out of interest, what editing program are you using? And why? Just curious...

[ozab]

I am using Pinnacle Studio 9 and I have a PAL-VCD with nice backgrounds which I would like to use as my background for titles.
So, I am trying to convert the PAL-VCD to NTSC-MPEG files so that I can import it into Studio 9.

Thanks for your help. I guess someone esle will post an advise and maybe you can also learn. Thanks again.