Toast 5 VCD error

[talisman]

I have a number of mpegs tha I have downloaded fromt eh internet newsgroups and other peer to peer sources that I have been having difficulty burning to vcd. I am able to view the mpegs in Quicktime player without a problem and they seem to be VCD complient as per the info window in Quicktime. When I try to add them to Toast 5.1.4 I get "Movie.mpg can not be used to make a Video CD. Please use the video CD option in your MPEG encoder/multiplexer".

I have tried "fixing" them with VCDGears mpg2mpg setting and I get mixed results (some are now burnable, and some give the same error message). Demuxing and remuxing also gives the same results. Anyone have an idea as to what's going on and how to work around it, or should I try to re-encode the movie?

[galactica]

I have a number of mpegs tha I have downloaded fromt eh internet newsgroups and other peer to peer sources that I have been having difficulty burning to vcd. I am able to view the mpegs in Quicktime player without a problem and they seem to be VCD complient as per the info window in Quicktime. When I try to add them to Toast 5.1.4 I get "Movie.mpg can not be used to make a Video CD. Please use the video CD option in your MPEG encoder/multiplexer".

---if they are .mpeg's just convert them to an image for VCD, using VCDTOOLSX. Its quite easy, just select the option in the program, choose the .mpeg and click VCD then start. If that has a problem making the image, then your source is damaged.

I have tried "fixing" them with VCDGears mpg2mpg setting and I get mixed results (some are now burnable, and some give the same error message). Demuxing and remuxing also gives the same results. Anyone have an idea as to what's going on and how to work around it, or should I try to re-encode the movie?

----again, try just doing directly .mpeg to vcd image with vcdtoolsx and see what happens

[yexplorer]

Which version of Toast ? I had problem with 5.2.1 where as 5.2 worked fine.

[talisman]

----again, try just doing directly .mpeg to vcd image with vcdtoolsx and see what happens

Tried vcdtoolsX and it doesn't even want to process some of the mpegs into a vcd wrapper

[ZeroSix]

try creating a .BIN image with either FF or MMT and drop it onto toast in VCD mode.

[talisman]

try creating a .BIN image with either FF or MMT and drop it onto toast in VCD mode.

Tried FFmpeg and MMT and they both do the same thing, package only a partial file of the same size.

[galactica]

Ive had this happen many times

i think its just a bad file.

usually though its only with ones that dont have a .cue file and i found out renectly that you can just use other .cue files (after you rename them to match the .bin file.

It sounds like they are bad .mpeg files sadly to say. Ive had one or two like this, and its hard you just have to toss them.


Or you can try the mpeg to mpeg conversion with vcdgear. but it never works for me.

maybe someone else will have more experience and a method that works.