QT mpegs to VCD

[coolconman]

I have a bunch of Quicktime mpeg movies that I would like to put onto VCD's and I'm having a hell of a time. On the majority of the movies when I drag them into toast I get a warning saying this file cannot be used to make a video CD. On other ones I get a box where you pick NTSC or PAL format and a few other options and then it tries to encode it and it takes forever. On a few however, it puts them right in there with no problem at all. I am using a beta version of Toast Titanium(the only version I have available right now) so this might be the problem. Please help

[pants]

when it asks you to choose pal/ntsc and the other options, when this happens as soon as you choose these it is gonna encode the movie into the proper format. this takes a long ass time, even on a fast machine, i have a dp 800 mhz and a 20 min clip takes about 2.5-3 hours to encode, it sucks but i do when i go to bed so i don't have to wait. so be patient.

-if the file you have is an mpeg file that toast doesn't like try this and so far it's work everytime for me. get the program vcd gear, i think go to vcdgear.com

open it up, select the mpeg file you want, choose mpg-raw at the top, hit convert, it goes fairly quick, when done it spits out 2 files, so if you encode a movie called Nighttime, when done you would have 2 files, Nighttime00 and Nightime01, take these 2 files go to toast, go to options, choose the multitrack option, drag in the 00 first then the 01 and burn. and if you have multiple files you do this way i found i have to have all the 00 first then all the 01, ex.

track1-00
trakc2-00
track3-00
track1-01
track2-01
track3-01, etc.

you get these errors cause toast is picky about what it takes for an mpeg. if your unsure of these methods test them out on cd-rw so you don't get coasters.

pants

[Jimp]

Like coolconman, I want to learn how to make mpg video files into VCD files.

Reading the answer given by "pants", I have a couple of questions

I tried the "VCDgear" setting mpg - raw option and it made the two files as stated.

But when I tried to find the "multitrack" options in Toast, I could not find it.

I have Toast titanium 5.1.1. Quicktime player 5.0.2.


Another question I would like answered...

I have Media cleaner power suite 4.0.2 and can encode raw mpg files into Pal / NTSC versions of mpeg1 file formats. But the end result does not contain any audio - is that because I only have Quicktime player? The video encoding is ok.

My mac is the original 450 Mhz G4 whch was shipped as 400 Mhz.

Jim

[JT]

Try this:
Use VCDGear with the following options:
-mpg2mpg -toast filenamea.mpg filenameb.mpg
this should convert your mpeg file to a Toast-compliant file. Works great if the file hasn't been "pieced together" with another program such as Rosetta.

Burn tested with toast 5.1.3 and VCDGear 1.6 on X.