Incorrect Video Resolution?

[IAIHMB]

I have an MPEG video that I want to burn on a DVD+R to play on my standalone DVD player. Everything goes well until I get to authoring, here is the error I get from TMPGenc DVD Author:

The video resolution of 480x576 cannot be used for a standard DVD.

Use one of the standard DVD resolutions:
NTSC : 352x240 252x480 704x480 720x480
PAL : 352x288 352x576 704x576 720x576

I was following one of the guides on here which told me to:
-Convert my .dat to MPEG using VCDGear
-Rip the video out of my MPEG with TMPGenc Plus
-Rip the audio out of my MPEG using VirtualDub
-Get my VOB files using a DVD Author of choice.

When I got the the point where I was suppose to rip the video from the MPEG I got an error from TMPGenc Plus saying that this video format was not supported. I checked my codecs and I do have a DivX codec. Did I do something wrong from the start?

Once again, thanks for all the help.

Edit: When I got to the point where I couldn't rip the video using TMPGEnc I just tried to Author it, that is where the error came from. I was trying to make this as detailed as possible, sorry for any confusion.

[IAIHMB]

I believe I have extracted the video file using TMPGEnc's "MPEG Tools," but now when I go to extract the audio using VirtualDub I get this error:

No video frames found in MPEG file.

Am I just going about all this backwards?

[Gurm]

480w is an SVCD resolution, not DVD.

- Gurm

[IAIHMB]

Doh! So I take it there is no way I can burn it and play it on my standalone DVD player?

[Baldrick]

This is not DVD to DVDR. Please try post in correct forum.

[IAIHMB]

Damn, sorry about that. I believe I had a brainstorm guys. The file was originally .bin/.cue, and I converted to MPEG. What I am trying to do now is convert my .bin/.cue to .dat and then convert .dat to my DVD files using TMPGEnc, does this sound like a good idea or am I going backwards?

[bugster]

Damn, sorry about that. I believe I had a brainstorm guys. The file was originally .bin/.cue, and I converted to MPEG. What I am trying to do now is convert my .bin/.cue to .dat and then convert .dat to my DVD files using TMPGEnc, does this sound like a good idea or am I going backwards?

No, what you did 1st time was right.

Look under the authoring guides to the left for methods of putting SVCD onto a DVD.
Its is not DVD compliant and so some players may not play it correctly if at all.

Only other option is to re-encode.

[Abond]

I would suggest if you have still the original bin/cue files to burn it to CDRW and to see if you can play it. If not, then go for convertion (maybe SVCD2DVDMPG will help you with this).

[IAIHMB]

I still have the original bin and cue files. I am using SVCD2DVD to convert them to MPEG2 than going to try and author them, hopefully I can get something to play on my old standalone dvd player. Thanks for the help so far. How would you guys go about aranging bin and cue files so that you could get them to play on dvd player?

[Gurm]

Ok, let's think carefully here.

They're ALREADY MPEG2.

It's an SVCD. Just burn it to a darn CD and be done with it.

Or, ask in the SVCD->DVD forum about how to go about working TMPGEnc to do what you want.

- Gurm

[kitty]

DVDlab will let you burn them to DVD without conversion.

[IAIHMB]

Gurm: I've already burned it to a CD, that is good enough for me, my family wants a copy they can play on their standalone DVD player though. I think I'll have to persuade them to play a MPEG/AVI/SVCD compatible DVD player.

Kitty: If I use DVDLab with that burn as a standard DVD format and play in my family's very old DVD player? I'm not sure how old it is if that matters, but I have had some luck with getting AVIs to play on it, so I don't know.

On another note, how many programs do you guys use for all of this kind of stuff? I have VirtualDub, VCDGear, TMPGEnc DVD Author, TMPGEnc Plus, DVDShrink, and GSpot installed just because of all of this. Do you know of any programs that I don't need or any other programs I could get that would replace a couple of these?

[redwudz]

I use just ISObuster and SVCD2DVDMPG to convert my SVCD discs to DVD format with no problems, then run the file through TMPGEnc DVD Author. It seems the simplest method and the results look as good as the original SVCDs, but I can get 2 to 3 videos onto a DVD.

[IAIHMB]

I'm not to sure about this, but I wouldn't need bot Isobuster and SVCD2DVDMPG right? Doesn't Isobuster rip the MPG from .bin files? Thank fo all the help so far guys.

[IAIHMB]

I believe I have got it. I used IsoBuster to extract the .mpg from the .cue/.bin files, and then I authored with DVDlab and burned with Nero. When I try to play the DVD on my standalone there are white flickering dots, is that because my DVD player is not SVCD compatible? It plays just fine in my computers DVD player.

One last question than you can consider this thread dead. I have all of these tools:

Alcohol 120%, PowerDVD, DVDShrink, DVDlab, GSpot, IsoBuster, TMPGEnc Plus, TMPGEnc DVD Author, VCDGear, and VirtualDub-MPEG2.

Can I get rid of any of them, I mean because one of them does the same as the other(s,) I cannot explain it really, but I believe I can get rid of TMPGEnc DVD Author because DVDLab does all of it plus more? Would the same go for VCDGear and IsoBuster? Thanks for all of the help guys, I'm starting to get the hang of things.