Error message when burning VCD (MPEG derived from DVD)

[qprfact]

I've made an Mpeg following the instructions elsewhere on the site. It plays fine on my PC. When I went to burn it using Nero, I got an error message but thought I would try nonetheless. The disk plays in my DVD player (and the picture is very good), but the sound drops in and out and stutters, which possibly means the error message should have alerted me to something. The question is, can I fix it so I can burn a disk OK, as I don't have the source d2v any more?!! The error message read:

"The file ... is not a valid file for creating a standard Video CD V2.0 (CD-I player) disc. A compliant video file requires the following specifications:
MPEG-1 which was encoded for Video-CD:
audio: 44.1 kHz; stereo; 224 Kbits/s
video: 352x240 / 29.97 Hz or 352x240 / 23.976Hz or 352x288 / 25Hz

The following problems were found:
- stream encoding which is invalid for a (Super)Video-CD

How would you like to continue?

Turn off standard compliance and continue

Re-encode the video file"

I used the wizard in TMPGEnc, with High Quality Motion Search Precision, also clicked Noise Reduction, Sharpen Edge

Can anyone help please?

Thanks

[RayH]

I'm a newbie and had the same problem. Use VCDEasy to burn the .mpg file to CD to create a VCD 2.0 you can play on a stand alone unit. The program is free.

From what I can see, VCDEasy takes the .mpg file and creates a .bin and a .cue file.

On the main page of VCDEasy, just give the .bin file a location (from the browse). Dont' give the file name any spaces, movie1.bin or movie2.bin. Check the burn. If you have simulation checked, it will make a dry run.

In the lower window, select the .mpg file that has the movie (Add files). After the file appears, just hit go! It'll make the .bin file and burn the CD @ 8x.

I give the bin a name (like movie2.bin), so it won't reburn the same disk. Then, delete the old .mpg and add the next .mpg file. Then GO.....

It works really nice and fast. I don't fully understand it. But it works.

[qprfact]

Thanks - I will give it a try this evening!

[RayH]

At least for me, it seems that 745 mb discs burned with overrun produce video dropouts towards the end of the disc. So I've taken to cutting and merging the mpg files.

As I said, I'm a newbie and am not sure about what I'm doing. But whatever I'm doing seems to work. It only takes litterally about five minutes to cut and meger two mpg files.

I open TMPGEnc. I use from File>Tools> Cut and Merge. It's a bit confusig the first time.

Basically, I take the first MPEG file and crop it from 00:00:00 to about 50:00:0. I save it to its own file, with a different name, like crop1.mpg

I take that same first original MPEG file and then crop it from 50:00:00 to the end, saving it to crop2.mpg.

I take the second original MPEG file and just play it through, saving it to crop3.mpg

I then take crop2.mpg and crop3.mpg and merge them to crop4.mpg.

I then use VCDEasy to burn movies from crop1.mpg and crop4.mpg. I may be doing extra work, but I don't lose any files. And the whole proces really only takes less than 5 minutes.

But I've found I don't get dropouts!

[Ejoc]

a 700mb CDR will hold 800mb worth of MPEG.

VCDs and SVCDs burn in MODE2_RAW which holds more the MODE1_RAW, which the 700mb is referring too.

[qprfact]

I tried the approach suggested using VCD Easy, but the resultant disk had the same issue with sound not working properly - has anyone any other suggestions? As I say, the file plays fine on the PC, but it seems to be a problem when it's burned to CD

[Ejoc]

Did VCD Easy give you any warnings like Nero did? Did you have the Check MPEG for compatibility checked?

Sounds like your audio wasnt encoded properly.

[RayH]

Ejoc You are probably more skilled than I. I'm just starting. I'm ripping and encoding with DVD2SVCD and burning with VCDEasy. But I'm reszing the resulting mpg files with TMPGEnc to about 50-55 minutes.

It just seems to me that on my Toshiba SD2700 when I burn the resulting mpg files from DVD2SVCD, I get video dropouts towards the end. It seems like things are crowded on the unresized on my Toshiba.

Those foriginal mpg discs will play without problem on my computer. The dropouts aren't in the mpg files. But when I make the files a bit smaller, I don't have the problem on my Toshiba. Since the movie has to go on a couple of discs anyway, I don't find it a problem to just give the first disc a bit more room.

I'll be getting more proficient as time rolls on. But as for now, I've found this to work quite well w/o jumping through too many hoops!

[qprfact]

How would I know if the audio wasn't encoded properly? Can it be fixed?