probems placing VCDs on DVD

[lemonkey]

I have a large back catalog of VCDs that I would like to put on DVD.

I have successfully converted 3 files to the approriate audio standards etc but there are 4 or 5 that I am having problems joining etc.

When I rip the disks to the hard drive I have 2 mpg files, but when I try to join them in TMPenc I am losing 20 - 30 mins of video in the final created file.

I have tried joining them with joiner which comes out fine but when I de-multiplex (TMPenc) I lose the 20-30 of video and audio again.

Can anyone help me ?

I am running windows 2K if thats a help.

Thanks

[nutstoyou]

Joining mpg's can be fickle. Several optioms are available to you.
1. Join the mpg's then re-encode as one file with tmpgenc (quality hit though)
2. Dont join mpg's, re-sample audio to 48000 and use tmpgenc dvd author-add new track then add file for each associated mpg, ie 2 mpg files within the track (chapter).
3. Join mpg's and use svcd2dvdmpg to re-sample audio as this seems to ignore video end sequence markers and encodes the complete audio length.

[FOO]

If I was doing it, I would process each file to a DVD compliant MPEG2
separately, check that they play, and then
put them into an authoring program.

[lemonkey]

Join mpg's and use svcd2dvdmpg to re-sample audio as this seems to ignore video end sequence markers and encodes the complete audio length.

I have tried this way and it hangs when demultiplexing. The video file is there alright but it just stops dead when trying to do the audio.

The MS- DOS box pops-up but nothing is appears to be happening inside it.

Could someone help me please.

I dowloaded svcd2dvdmpg on Saturday Morning, so I imagine that is the latest version.

Thanks for all your help already guys.

[FOO]

Quit trying to join them. You are buying unnecessary problems.
Process each one into the correct format individually .
You said you wanted help.

[lemonkey]

Quit trying to join them. You are buying unnecessary problems.
Process each one into the correct format individually .
You said you wanted help.

FOO, thanks for your help. I have tried that and I am still getting the same problem.

I was just thinking I have only got SVCD2DVDMPG and not SVCD2DVDMPG+. Is there a differnce ?

[FOO]

Do you mean that the indivudual converted files will not
play ? In WindowsMediaPlayer even ?

[lemonkey]

It plays when I have ripped them from the CD.

But after that all I am getting from SVCD2DVDMPG is 2 mpg files, Video only no sound. There are 2 audio files at 4k a piece.

It just keeps hanging on me

Cheers for helping me FOO.

[FOO]

I have never used SVCD2DVD so I can't help. I do everything
the hard way