VCD to DVD conversion problem

[Peter Loron]

I have a disc, which I believe is a VCD. I'm trying to convert it to a DVD. After searching the forum and reading the only thread that seems relevant, I made a .bin image of the disc. Using the conversion tool in ffmpegX yields this:

++ WARN: detected wrong size calculation for form2 file `CDI/CDI_IMAG.RTF'; fixing up
INFO: detected extended VCD2.0 PBC files
INFO: extracting CDI/CDI_IMAG.RTF to _cdi_cdi_imag.rtf (lsn 220, size 1315168, raw 1)
INFO: extracting CDI/CDI_TEXT.FNT to _cdi_cdi_text.fnt (lsn 863, size 13616, raw 0)
INFO: extracting CDI/CDI_VCD.APP to _cdi_cdi_vcd.app (lsn 870, size 102400, raw 0)
INFO: extracting CDI/CDI_VCD.CFG to _cdi_cdi_vcd.cfg (lsn 920, size 193, raw 0)
INFO: extracting avseq01.mpg... (start lsn 1264 (+45846))
INFO: extracting avseq02.mpg... (start lsn 47110 (+44894))
INFO: extracting avseq03.mpg... (start lsn 92004 (+87393))
INFO: done
Input #0, mp3, from '/Users/peterl/Movies/Disc1.bin.contents/avseq01.mpg-0.mp2':
Duration: 00:10:07.7, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 224 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Audio: mp2, 44100 Hz, stereo, 224 kb/s
Output #0, mp2, to '/Users/peterl/Movies/Disc1.bin.contents/avseq01.mpg-0.s.mp2':
Stream #0.0: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 224 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
ffmpeg version 0.4.9-pre1, build 4736, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
configuration: --enable-mp3lame --enable-gpl --disable-vhook --enable-ffplay --disable-ffserver --enable-a52 --enable-xvid --enable-faac --enable-faad --enable-amr_nb --enable-amr_wb --enable-pthreads
built on Dec 18 2004 04:39:28, gcc: 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1666)
video:0kB audio:16617kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 0.000000%
INFO: [mplex] mplex version 2.2.2 ($Date: 2003/05/13 20:27:15 $)
**ERROR: [mplex] File /Users/peterl/Movies/Disc1.bin.contents/avseq01.mpg-0.m1v unrecogniseable!
INFO: [mplex] File /Users/peterl/Movies/Disc1.bin.contents/avseq01.mpg-0.s.mp2 looks like an MPEG Audio stream.
**ERROR: [mplex] Unrecogniseable file(s)... exiting.


Any ideas? Thanks.

[major]

This seems to be an old Philips CD-I. Are the various mpg files playable in Quicktime Player?

[Peter Loron]

I processed the .DAT files to get .mpg files with Gumby. Those resulting .mpg files play fine in Quicktime Player, VLC, mplayer, etc.

The reason for the conversion is that I need to get these playing on a portable DVD machine for a trip. It does support playing MPEGs from a data CD/DVD, but it does not support S/VCD nor does it support MP4.

[Peter Loron]

I put the .mpg files I got from Gumby onto a UDF formatted CD-RW, and they worked fine in the player. Emergency over.

I'm still curious to see why the conversion didn't work in ffmpegX...