TMPGEnc Not Allowing Me To Convert SVCD MPEGs->VCD MPEGS

[Nicholas S. Folsom]

I wanted to reencode some dvdrips that were encoded as SVCD MPEGS to VCD MPEGS since my DVD players only play VCD's. I've been doing this with other MPEGS. Why these three? Is there any thing I can do?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You,
Nicholas

[adam]

What do you mena by "not allowing you to convert?" Are you receiving an error msg of some sort?

If the files are not loading than this is because you are loading them directly rather than frameserving. When you load an mpeg1/2 file directly into TMPGenc it accesses it through direct show, which is really incredibly unreliable. You could probably get TMPGenc to accept these files by increasing the direct show reader's priority (Options/environmental settings/VFAPI Plugins, right click on direct show and raise priority until its #1 in the list) but I strongly suggest you frameserve through DVD2avi and VFAPI instead. Load load your mpg or m2v file into dvd2avi and click file/save project and it will create a d2v file which you can load directly into TMPGenc. This is far more reliable than using direct show, and it will probably be faster to encode as well.

[Nicholas S. Folsom]

What do you mena by "not allowing you to convert?" Are you receiving an error msg of some sort?

If the files are not loading than this is because you are loading them directly rather than frameserving. When you load an mpeg1/2 file directly into TMPGenc it accesses it through direct show, which is really incredibly unreliable. You could probably get TMPGenc to accept these files by increasing the direct show reader's priority (Options/environmental settings/VFAPI Plugins, right click on direct show and raise priority until its #1 in the list) but I strongly suggest you frameserve through DVD2avi and VFAPI instead. Load load your mpg or m2v file into dvd2avi and click file/save project and it will create a d2v file which you can load directly into TMPGenc. This is far more reliable than using direct show, and it will probably be faster to encode as well.

Thanks alot!

What I mean by it not allowing me to convert, I get an error message saying: "...Can not open, or unsupported." The method you suggested has worked really well so far. Now in TMPGEnc, for the audio do I use the *.mpa file that DVD2avi made for me?

Now I'm looking at a partial file that TMPGEnc made for me...

Thanks Again!
Nicholas S. Folsom

[adam]

If you need to re-encode the audio then yes, you can just load the mpa audio file into TMPGenc.

If your SVCD audio was encoded at 224kbits then there is no need to re-encode the audio though, since it is already VCD compliant. Just load the d2v file into TMPGenc and set the output to video only and encode. You will get an m1v file. Go to file/mpeg tools/simple multiplex and load your m1v and mpa files and multiplex them into an mpg and then you can burn that as a compliant VCD.

Even if your audio wasn't encoded at 224, you probably still won't run into any problems on your DVD player, but if you want a totally compliant VCD than its best to re-encode to 224kbits.