problem with vcd timecode

[Michael Coates]

hi, i am making a vcd of all my bands crappy videos from a dvd i made before, i'm not new to this but i am having one problem.

i am encoding with tmpgenc and using a MVBR to keep the size down so it fits on a cd (upper 1150 lower 1000) - anyway, they come out looking good and all 20 videos fit onto the cd-r - i want to put them up for download but there's a problem with the timecode on each file - even though they last over three minutes each, when i play them in windows media player they come up at any length under a minute despite playing for the entire duration.

is there anything i can do to reset the timecode and make it look the correct length?

hope that makes sense. i'm forever having problems like this with the times looking considerably smaller than they really are - this happens also with some dvd files i create and causes many problems with authoring - i can work around those but this is very annoying, especially for those that download and watch on their pc.

thanks for reading.
cheers
mik x

[Michael Coates]

ok, i've found that in tmpgenc if you search hard for some settings you can change the GOP settings to 1 instead of 2 (as mine must have been brokeninto 2 for some reason).

is there a program that lets you reset the GOP settings so i can avoid encoding all my videos again?

[freebird73717]

i think restream will let you do this

[Michael Coates]

i'll d/l it and see if i can figure it out.

cheers!
mik x