Some help please! :)

[MacAttack]

I recently download a movie (Crouching Tiger) that was in MPEG-1 format. It's 2 files, and seems to be a direct VCD rip, as each disc begins with a CD-i splash.

Now here's the weird part. On the first disc, after the splash animation, there is a teaser for Charlie's Angels. No big deal...but after the teaser is over, it jumps into about the 2nd minute of the movie. At first I just thought that the MPEG file had somehow been spliced, but if I stop the MPEG while it's playing back and rewind it, it'll show the first two minutes of the movie that were covered up by the teaser. So in other words, the teaser and the movie are both there in full, but the teaser somehow is overlapping the beginning of the movie. The same thing happens on the 2nd CD with the splash animation and the movie.

Any thoughts? I'd like to burn both parts to CD-R and play them on a DVD player, but if it's going to be messed up like that, I don't want to burn them.

Thanks for any help you can provide!!

[sander61]

It's seem to be a real bad mpeg. They joined probably the mpeg1-part into 1 big mpeg1-file. This is wrong, a mpeg1-file is an end-product which can't be joined together.
It might be played in windows media player, but that's it.

If you really want to use these files, it's mostly possible but far too difficult for an afternoon job.

sander, the netherlands.

[silver356b]

Try running it through Rosetta. It's supposed to fix this kind of problem.

[MacAttack]

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Try running it through Rosetta. It's supposed to fix this kind of problem.
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Awesome!! That did the trick...thanks a million!

However, Toast is now telling me that it can't use the resultant MPEG file, even though it plays back fine in QT player and is recognized as a valid MPEG-1 file...any ideas?


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[silver356b]

Now run it through VirtualPC/TMPGEnc or VCDGear for Mac to make a VCD compliant stream.

[MacAttack]

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On 2001-08-13 14:41:18, silver356b wrote:
Now run it through VirtualPC/TMPGEnc or VCDGear for Mac to make a VCD compliant stream.
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Thanks again...I used VCDGear to make it Toast ready. Worked...but the output file can only be recognized by Toast, not by QT player. The resulting VideoCD works beautifully though!

Any utils that can make an MPEG file readable by both Toast AND QT player?

[silver356b]

VCDGear makes the "old" Toast-ready format which, indeed, can't be played with QT. The idea is to make a VCD compliant stream. You need to demux/remux your MPEG. For sure, VirtualPC/TMPGEnc will make a stream playable and burnable as you want. There are other utilities for the Mac (Digigami, VCDMaker) that can also do this but I am not very familiar with them.