MPG VCD authoring: BIG problem

[psyklax]

Right, this may take a while to explain...

I've got a VCD-compliant MPG that's about 840mb - yes, I know, the idiot that encoded it didn't think to make it a useable size. That's not the biggest problem, though: when I look at it in most programs it says it's only 24 minutes, when it's actually around 84 minutes (I assume). Furthermore, other programs, such as Virtualdub, stop it at the hour mark, and another program did the same, but had the audio stop at the same 24 minute mark too!! How about i split it, you say? Well, no can do, tried it in TMPGEnc and the same hour-long section was all that came out.

Just to see what would happen, I authored it to a VCD image (which, naturally, turned out around 840mb) and played it in WinDVD. Success! The whole video plays fine from start to finish. Now why don't I just rip THAT video from the image and use that? Well, I did, with Isobuster, yet the same problem occurred: the video was identical, not surprising really. So I've got an MPG that's (just) too large to fit on a VCD, and can't be split over two discs (and remuxing it didn't work either). DVD? Well, I authored it with TMpgEnc DVD Author, and the video got to the hour mark, and had no audio from 24 minutes onward. Just great.

Question is, what the hell do I do? If only I could just burn it to a disc that would fit it, but i'm not in the mood to try and get a 900mb disc right now. I can't think of ANYTHING that will work right now, so any ideas will be welcome. Thank you for listening.

[iantri]

Probably isn't much to be done about it.. if you are having trouble splitting it there must be some problem with corruption or non-compliancy..

Even if you can split it with another program (say, BBMPEG?), if you are having this much trouble reading it there probably isn't much chance of it being playable in most players..