VCDEasy will only allow 1 entrypoint

[dexterkitty]

I d/l a Friends episode from ng. Trying to burn SVCD. In Chapters tab,

Type MPEG2 [Motion Video - Audio Standard]
Video Stream Motion Video, 480x480, 29.97003fps (NTSC), 2450kbps

Number of possible chapter entry points: 1


Any ideas on why I can't add chapters to this? Thanks.

[vitualis]

The MPEG probably only has one MPEG Sequence Header (at the beginning). You need to have regular MPEG Sequence Headers (generally before each GOP header) if you want entrypoints.

http://www.vcdimager.org/guides/chapters.html

Regards.

[dexterkitty]

Is it possible to add "regular MPEG Sequence Headers " to this mpeg.

I tried using the mpeqsequencer that was on the vcdimage website, but it messed up the video.

[vitualis]

To be honest, I don't know. The MPEG Sequence Header tool was made to fix MPEG-1 streams. It probably won't work for MPEG-2...

I am not aware of any other tool that will do this for an MPEG-2 stream. You could try remuxing it with bbMPEG?

Otherwise, you are out of luck. If you encode your own MPEG-2 files for SVCD, make sure that it is set to put in a sequence header before each GOP (usually the default).

Regards.

[dexterkitty]

Thanks for the info. I downloaded the mpeg from a newsgroup. I'll try your suggestion with bbmpeg.