MPEG to VCD problem in TMPGE

[timking]

I am new to this...but from what I understand, you can take a MPEG movie, open it in TMPGE, and convert it to VCD. I followed the directions, but when I try to preview a sample, it runs but with a black screen. I see no video. The file I am trying to convert from MPEG to VCD is 344 megs, a PAL 25 fps file. Am I doing something wrong?

[nick177th]

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On 2001-09-18 11:09:59, timking wrote:
I am new to this...but from what I understand, you can take a MPEG movie, open it in TMPGE, and convert it to VCD. I followed the directions, but when I try to preview a sample, it runs but with a black screen. I see no video. The file I am trying to convert from MPEG to VCD is 344 megs, a PAL 25 fps file. Am I doing something wrong?


you shouldn't have any problems. what do you mean by preview it? are you letting tmpge encode the whole movie? once you set it up to encode you should be able to go to preview and see how it will look after it is encoded. i'm not sure if you can look preview any part of the movie while it is encoding it. </BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD><HR size=1 color=black></TD></TR></TABLE>

[timking]

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On 2001-09-18 11:21:07, nick177th wrote:
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On 2001-09-18 11:09:59, timking wrote:
I am new to this...but from what I understand, you can take a MPEG movie, open it in TMPGE, and convert it to VCD. I followed the directions, but when I try to preview a sample, it runs but with a black screen. I see no video. The file I am trying to convert from MPEG to VCD is 344 megs, a PAL 25 fps file. Am I doing something wrong?


you shouldn't have any problems. what do you mean by preview it? are you letting tmpge encode the whole movie? once you set it up to encode you should be able to go to preview and see how it will look after it is encoded. i'm not sure if you can look preview any part of the movie while it is encoding it. </BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD><HR size=1 color=black></TD></TR></TABLE>
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Well, under FILE>PREVIEW. I did stop the process and tried to view it. Same thing. Does it save the file as a MPEG file or what?

[timking]

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On 2001-09-18 11:27:16, timking wrote:
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On 2001-09-18 11:21:07, nick177th wrote:
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On 2001-09-18 11:09:59, timking wrote:
I am new to this...but from what I understand, you can take a MPEG movie, open it in TMPGE, and convert it to VCD. I followed the directions, but when I try to preview a sample, it runs but with a black screen. I see no video. The file I am trying to convert from MPEG to VCD is 344 megs, a PAL 25 fps file. Am I doing something wrong?


you shouldn't have any problems. what do you mean by preview it? are you letting tmpge encode the whole movie? once you set it up to encode you should be able to go to preview and see how it will look after it is encoded. i'm not sure if you can look preview any part of the movie while it is encoding it. </BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD><HR size=1 color=black></TD></TR></TABLE>
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Well, under FILE>PREVIEW. I did stop the process and tried to view it. Same thing. Does it save the file as a MPEG file or what? Yes I am letting TMPGE encode the whole file. I tried to see how it will look after i set it up, but i get a black screen while it is playing.
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[sean madison]

tmpgenc might not be ablt to playback vcd or svcd mpegs.
What you want to do is if its a vcd, open it with
Xing mpeg player, if its SVCD, open it with Elecard MPEG-2.
If the MPG(your source file) was originally SVCD, it MUST
be encoded back into svcd, but if its a vcd-mpg, you can encode in vcd or svcd

[mmi64]

Ofcourse VCD is MPEG anyway, so in other words you are converting mpeg to mpeg. It's just the settings that are different. As Tmpgenc is doing its thing, there ought to be a window in the middle with the image you're converting. If it's not there, you've got to ask yourself why. Maybe you need to download the latest beta. Always click on the load tab and select VCD PAL mpeg1 or whatever you like(SVCD mpeg2 for example), this avoids the possibility of you creating non-compliant streams in the first place.
If the picture is there, then quite simply your file is being created, and you must therefore have a problem with the compatibility of the video stream you have created and the player software you are using.Xing I notice is flaky with mpeg2, it jumps, and shows only off-black blocky effects most of the time, most other software is just as delicate. The only one single program that works for just about EVERYTHING I have found so far is WinDVD 3.0, not earlier versions. It plays VCD, SVCD,DVD all off disc, or any of these formats off the hard-drive plus AVI's and such like. A demo can be downloaded for free. Also check out the Chinese SthVCD which is free. This one has an awful karaoke front-end, and can look cheap and blocky, but will open almost any type of video stream file you're likely to be playing with.



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On 2001-09-18 11:09:59, timking wrote:
I am new to this...but from what I understand, you can take a MPEG movie, open it in TMPGE, and convert it to VCD. I followed the directions, but when I try to preview a sample, it runs but with a black screen. I see no video. The file I am trying to convert from MPEG to VCD is 344 megs, a PAL 25 fps file. Am I doing something wrong?
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