Image is SVCD how to play on VCD players

[PetterP]

Okay. If someone has read my posts before, you will remember that my friend had a vcd image of a movie. If you don't have read anyone of my posts, i'll tell you it now.

My friend has an vcd image. When i visited him today, i realised that it was not a vcd, but a svcd image. He should burn the movie to me, so I could take it with me to watch it with another friend on his vcd player, but when i saw that it was a svcd image, i thought that it was not possible to watch it on the vcd player.

I saw that it was a svcd by opening the image and voila: A folder named mpeg2 with a dat inside. (It is a svcd then? Im not sure )

I remembered watching something on this forum that someone should not use the header trick, but burn it as a vcd in nero.

I wonder now if i have to encode the dat to a mpeg2 file (mpg), or if it is possible to do it with the dat file inside the image.

Or more precisely: What shall i do to watch the movie on my friends vcd player? It's not a dvd player, it come from iran, i think, and it will only play vcds i think, SINCE im not sure about the svcd's.

How can i play this movie on a vcd player is more precisely. Encode to vcd, or use any trick?

Thanks in advance. PetterP

[PetterP]

Okay, maybe a little hard to understand. I'll try again. I have better time now.

My friend has a svcd image of a movie that he should burn to me. I thought it was a vcd image, but when i saw it was a svcd image i started to wonder what to do.

I'm not sure if it is a svcd image, but i think so, because the dat file lies inside a mpeg2 folder.

Now i ask. What shall i do to watch this movie on my other friends vcd player (Just VCD, he got it from Iran or Syria).

Shall i encode the movie to vcd, or can i use a trick? I heard about burning the mpeg2 as a vcd in nero, but do i have to do something with the dat file, or can i just load it in nero?

What shall i do to play the movie in my friends vcd player, and how?

Hope this was a little easier to understand. PetterP

[RoopeT]

I'm afraid the header trick only works for some DVD players that are not able to play SVCD but will play VCD. To get your SVCD to play on a VCD player you´ll propably have to re-encode the clip.

[PetterP]

So it IS a SVCD? I always thought that the video file was a mpg on a SVCD and not dat before i saw the image file.

You sure that there's not any way to trick the vcd player except for the header trick?

Guess I have to reencode. Well, i know that there are a lot of guides around here, but could you tell me what guide and program is the best to convert SVCD to VCD? I will look at the guides, but i'm not sure if i'll find the best.

Thanks for the help. Now, I at least know what to do. PetterP

[mats.hogberg]

No, yo don't have to reencode to try the header trick - just remultiplex as VCD (Non standard) in TMPGEnc.
Then author (and burn if possible - if not; just breate the cue/bin with VCDEasy and burn that with Nero) as a VCD with VCDEasy.

/Mats