WMV/MPG to VCD MPEG Encoder?

[Slammed01]

Sup guys, Im looking for a program to convert/encode some music videos I downloaded and want to burn to a VCD. Right now there WMV and some MPG and need to be a MPEG to burn. Im using roxio to burn the disc, but says I need a MPEG encoder for it to work. I looked on Download.com but not sure exactly works best and is easiest to use for free I tried AimOne Video COnverter but I dont think it worked, it was only a trial version lol. Thanks!

[Slammed01]

awww come on......someone has to know lol!

[jimmalenko]

gee whiz ... a bump after 9 hours ?

c'mon ... surely you've found the forum search or the guides section by now ...

TMPGEnc (or any other MPEG encoder in the tools section) can do it, and this guide with a bit of tweaking can do it for you

[elkfir]

WinAVI will do it.

[ken.vs.ryu]

winavi

[monzie]

TMPG basic will do VCD complaint mpegs (but not anything mpeg2) and its free (or was the last time I looked).

http://www.tmpgenc.net/e_download.html

[Slammed01]

Im gunna try TMPGEnc I dl'ed it but its a zip file and my comp doesnt recognize it.....how do I open it? Thanx again

[vhelp]

TMPGenc will not open any *.wmv files unless you have its codec installed.

I tried this, because I do not have a *.wmv codec installed on my OS (win98)
and TMPG failed to open it.

So, do take that under advisement.
-vhelp 3044

[Slammed01]

How do I open TMPGEnc and install the codec?

[jimmalenko]

get the trial of winzip from www.winzip.com . AFAIK, a wmv codec comes with Windows Media Player, or at the very worst, the Windows Media 9 codecs are available for download at microsoft's site.

[Slammed01]

Aright cool, I got it opened and tried a MPG to VCD and tried to open it and burn it and it said something about seeking a unnamed file and couldnt open it....? It got saved as a MCF file instead of a vcd file.....how do I fix this? I put to MPEG when I encoded it......?

[jimmalenko]

MCF files are the template files. You really should be following a guide

[Slammed01]

Im gunna read the guide u posted and try to figure it out, Thanks!

[Slammed01]

aright, where can I find a guide to use TMPGEnc for what Im lookin for? Im confused on this, I looked at the guide u posted jim but didnt see where it mentioed the "template" sorry.....

[Slammed01]

aright....still lost! Heeeelp!

[jimmalenko]

This is the area where you set your source and output files:


This is the area where you set the template you wish to use:

[Slammed01]

Yea I was lookin at all that, I loaded the vids in MPG format under video and audio source. Is output file name, do I want that as the video too, or is it somethin different? Thanks Jim for ur patience it is appreciated!

[jimmalenko]

Yea I was lookin at all that, I loaded the vids in MPG format under video and audio source. Is output file name, do I want that as the video too, or is it somethin different? Thanks Jim for ur patience it is appreciated!

You need either the output filename or the path different, because you want to create a different file (leaving the path and filename the same will try to overwrite the original file).

[Slammed01]

Aright I figured out where I was goin wrong with the templates I converted some MPG's over to MPEG-1 for a VCD and put it in the DVD/VCD player and it went blank and wouldnt play. I know it will play on the DVD player cause I played VCD;s before. WHen I insert the disc it reads it and the VCD light lights up......and nothing? Do I need em in a different format besides MPEG-1? Its a mitsubushi DVD player Btw....Thanks!

[Slammed01]

annnnyone? Thanx....

[jimmalenko]

I'd suggest that you do a little research on your own

What you are trying to do is not all that complex, and there are many guides that can take you every step of the way. Questions such as this are quite common and it is preferred that the guides are used as a first point of reference, as opposed to someone in the forums giving the exact same content of a guide over and over again.

Check out What is VCD (top left) to make sure that you are creating a VCD-compliant MPEG, and that you are authoring it correctly.