BURNING A VCD FROM AN MPEG1 LAYER2 FILE

[TENFORE]

HI,

I'm new to the Forum and I'm having a problem burning a VCD with my NERO 5 (Lite-On) CD Rom. The file which I downloaded from the Internet is a 493 megabyte 39 minute long MPEG 1 LAYER 2 FILM CLIP- 352X240, 29.97 fps, CBR 1150 kbps, and the audio is 44,100 kbps and 224bits. My NERO won't burn it and when I tried using the NERO encoder it wouldn't play back on my computer. Surprisingly after reading all of the great comments about TMPGEnc I was very disappointed when I tried it and it said that the file "cannot be created".

IT PLAYS BACK PERFECTLY ON WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER. I don't have a DVD player and just want to burn a disc that will play back on my computer. I also tried downloading avi2vcd but it wouldn't even recognize the file. I'd sure appreciate it if anyone knows of any Freeware or reasonably priced converter/encoder that will do the job. I'm new at this and can't figure out why TMPGEnc wouldn't work for me. I have checked out the Forum and not seen any posting that could solve my problem

[gll99]

If you are on the NTSC system.

The file seems to be in proper specs for a standard VCD. Do you have any other burning software that you can try.

With those specs you should not need tmpgenc.

It should burn fine the way it is. Did you try to burn it as a videocd and did Nero complain that it was not compliant. Even if it does just ignore it and turn off the compliance check.

[TENFORE]

To gll99: Thanks so much for your reply. I don't have any other burning hardware. I do have Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum software but it uses the same burner and it too rejects the file.

The message that I get is a standard pop up which reads "The following problems were found -stream encoding which is invalid for a {super} video CD. You are creating a video CD V-2.0 {CDi player} compliant CD, but the Mpeg file is not suitable for such a disc. How would you like to proceed?

This bothers me as I am NOT trying to create a CD V-2.0 {CDi player} compliant CD. I have chosen to burn a regular video CD.

I tried encoding it with the Nero encoder and wound up with four separate items neither one of which will play back. One is a folder with 3 files called Ext that contains 87kb, another is called Mpegav with 1 file containing 567 Megabytes, and another that says VCD 4 files O folders 68 kb.

When just ignoring the warning and proceeding to burn anyhow I also wound up with an unplayable disc that took 12 hours to encode. I'm confused and don't know why the fle can't be burned. Thanks for your help anyhow.