How to convert AVI to VCD?

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Hi

I have been trying to convert an AVI movie to a VCD to burn to CDR.

I have been trying to use FFMPEGX and following the instructions on the ffmpegx website.

However I only end up with 2nr mpg files in the folder, and never have the .img files that the instructions say I need to burn to CDR!

I have the latest ffmpegx and the movie is a DVDrip AVI. I have searched for guides but have not managed to find anything.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks

[lawnman]

Did you try ffmpegx for MacOSX

[tomlee59]

Could you provide a little more info on what you tried? I've never had trouble performing this conversion, so I'm curious what you're doing differently. Just fyi, I simply use the vcd preset (ffmpegx 's mpeg encoder is faster than mpeg2enc's, but if one doesn't work for some reason, try the other).

If the process fails during muxing (an annoyingly common occurrence), remux the elementary streams using the muxing tool within ffmpegx. In stubborn cases, select the "mux as xvcd" option. Let the tool continue on and author the muxed result into .bin and .cue files. These are the most common image formats for vcd. Toast, missingmediaburner, dragonburn et al. will happily burn these image files onto cdr.

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I have been following the process listed in the ffmpegx website to svcd mpeg. I have never knowingly muxed? should I be?

Thanks for replying, what more info would you like? Honestly, all I have done is drop a film in and follow the instructions here! http://www.ffmpegx.com/divx_svcd.html

[tomlee59]

Ah, for one thing, you are actually trying to convert to SVCD, which isn't the same beast as a VCD. That's a potentially important difference.

That said, you are still not getting the results you expected, even though you are following directions to the letter. To help diagnose problems of precisely this nature, ffmpegx has a nice logging function that tracks what it does. You can view the logfile by clicking on the "i" button in the Progress pane during or after encoding. Often, buried somewhere in the arcane text it generates are useful clues as to what might have gone wrong, where. If you could post the contents here, I'm sure someone will be able to help you figure out what to try next.