SVCD Question

[commiewop]

I'm sure this has been answered 10 times over, but i'll ask again anyway. I d/l the time machine burned it off with cdrwin, tried to play it my dvd player and it won't work. I have gotten memorex and imations to work before, so it's not the media. and i have a sony dvp s560d files on disk look like

EXT
-SCANDATA.DAT
MPEG2
-AVSEQ01.MPG
SVCD
-entries.svd
-info.svd
-lot.svd
-psd.svd
-search.dat
-tracks.svd

i know when i got spiderman to work, there was one other mpeg file in that folder, that's all i really know.

Thanks

commie

[KingJohn]

So you made a SVCD, does your player work with SVCD's

[commiewop]

yeah it does, it's a sony dvp s560d.

[wulf109]

What format was your downloaded file in? If you converted in non-SVCD formated Mpeg then it would not play.

[Donny661]

I had somewhat of the same problem when i downloaded a movie in the .cue/.bin format once too. Try extracting the .mpg from the image with a program like CD Mage, VCDGear, or even the extract tracks on the image simulation that comes with CDRWin. Then burn that .mpg as you would any other SVCD. It may ask you to convert the .mpg into a true .mpg and you can use vcdgear to do that.

[commiewop]

ok i extracted it, now before i waste the cd trying to make it an svcd, should i be worried that when i went to play it, it tried to download a decompressor and failed, then couldn't play well on my comp(my comp sucks, just might not be able to handle the quality(theory anyway)).

new edit: extracted the .mpg and tried to burn it with nero, didn't work, then tried to re-image it with vcdimager, burned it, didn't work...if there is something i'm missing, please let me know

[KingJohn]

OK, you extracted the .dat file, you said it would not play in Media player. Well it should. Do you have the Nimo codec pack, and perhaps a re-install of Media player, it should not try to download a codec if its a mpeg.

Now you have the .dat file, it must play in Media player before you do anything else, double click the .dat file and select open with > media player. Once you are satisfied that its playing ok, then you can move on.

If you cannot get it to play, will the .dat file open in TMPGEnc and let you pre-view ?. No point in going any further until you can see it.

If you want to change the .dat file back to a .mpg you can use VDCGear, it only takes a few minuets. If it is a SVCD, then Nero will except it with the SVCD burn options.

You sure its not a fake

[adam]

Kingjohn, look at the file structure he posted, its obviously a SVCD. SVCDS don't use dat files only vcds do. VCDGear still might be able to convert the mpg with file headers back to a regular program stream but this will definitely not work everytime and is not recommended. VCDGear is designed to work with vcds, not svcds...hence the name. If you have the mpg with file headers taken off the disk you need to demultiplex it in TMPGenc's mpeg tools and remultiplex it as a svcd.

Actually its perfectly normal that the mpg doesnt play. The average person probably doesnt have an mpeg2 codec installed on their pc. commiewop to play the file install an mpeg2 codec. You can do this by installing a software dvd player, any trial version will do, or you can download the elecard mpeg2 codec in the tools section. In any case you don't need to have an mpeg2 codec installed or be able to play the file to burn it as a SVCD.

commiewop vcdimager didn't give you any errors? If not then the SVCD is probably compliant, thats good. But how did you burn the bin file? Don't use Nero for this use something else. If you need a free route then use CDRAO.