Help on creating VCDtookit2 compliant files

[webdog]

Hi
I am a total newbe at VCD and mpg so I need your help badly.
Currently I want to use Philips tookit and Ulead DMF plus TMPGEnc for coding.

It seems that Ulead DMF is very good at recognizing compliant VCD files! If I encode a AVI file with TMPGEnc I do not get a compliant files, Philips tk2 complains and so does Ulead DMF. My options are: create separate video (M1V) and audio (MP2)from my AVI and use VCD MUX. This gives me a fully compliant file. IF I tries this with a MPG file TMPGEnc refuses to extract the audio MP2 and hard crashes! If I instead uses the MPG tools DeMux I do get the files but VCD Mux gives an error (audio file is apparently too short)!

Why TMPGEnc refuses (i.e. chrashes) to Demux my mpg's is out of my understanding (It did the avi->mpg first) tried on ver 2.0 2.1 and 2.5 under w2k

If I load the file into Ulead DMF I have to re-encode with noticable loss of quality but do get a perfect compliant mpg file.

Suggestions and ideas are MOST welcome

Cheers
/WD

[webdog]

Hmm
have dug deeper into the problem, I realise I am not alone, as someone on the TMPGEnc bbs had similar problems.

To investigate further, I fired up my old 98SE machine, hooked up a network and tried to run TMPGEnc with the very same files, and WHOA things worked smootly! Apparently there is a incompability with w2k/DirectX8.1/TMPGEnc >

Interestinly I CAN rip the video/audio if I use the De-mux (not the simple one) but as the size of the video is very much smaller I do need to look more into the subject. When I used VCDMux I got error reports but an usful MMD-file (albeight some thump in the audio at the beginning ).

There must be lots of users with W2K and TMPGEnc or...??

/WD