Large files to two VCD's?

[Causality]

Alright, I've put 14 hours of home videos from the camera on VCD no problem. The ATI AIW 8500DV makes compliant files with no frame drops, beautiful quality. My DSS is at the other end of the house so I got an RCA 2.4 GHz wireless video sender/receiver ($69). I was doubtful but I was looking at buying and running 95 feet of AV wire. This thing is great. It sends crisp and noiseless video over 90 feet through many walls. COOL! Snatch (awesome flick) was on HBO tonight so I decided to break in the system. I recorded 141 minutes of MPEG2 for SVCD. First problem, I've got no SVCD option in Nero 5.5.3.5. What's up with that? I'm downloading an update to WindowsXP now from Nero. Maybe it'll be in there. Anyway, I figured the source was probably not better than VCD anyway so I started the burn at VCD. I assumed it would simply ask me for a second CD when it filled the first. Nope. It checked the file and started the burn. Then I got the error message that "File will not fit on a blank CD" and aborted. I looked in Nero for 20 minutes for some way to break the file into two parts but couldn't find anything. How do I do it?

[myke]

What are you trying to break apart?
VCD's are MPEG1
SVCD's need Mpeg2
I use vcd cutter for Splitting my mpeg1's
I use TMPGENC for splitting my svcd's
Some people have complained that splitting files with TMPGENC can cause audio sync problems. I don't seem to have problems though.

Nero won't split your files for you.
I use Nero 5.540 in XP and never had a problem with svcd I also had Nero 5 and it has svcd option. You might try reinstalling Nero if your update doesn't work.

[Causality]

Well, this is the first file I've tried thats over 700 MB and it's MPEG2. I intended it for SVCD. I tried running it through TMPGENC and got a message that the MPEG2 trial period has expired. I had no idea that it was a commercial program yet. My update of Nero still doesn't offer me an SVCD option. The Ahead website has MPEG2/SVCD codec plug-in sales info plastered all over it. So, maybe it's an upcharge since my version of Nero came with my CD-RW. Did you pay retail for your version? If true, that kind of pisses me off since I bought an AOPEN burner specifically because it came with Nero (which burns S/VCD). So maybe I'll scrap the SVCD idea for now. I'm downloading VCD Cutter now. I'll give it a try. TMPGENC should convert that MPEG2 to MPEG1 right?

[myke]

Every time you re-encode it kills your quality. The Mpeg2 plug-in that Nero advertises is for re-encoding an avi or mpeg1 to SVCD mpeg 2. Have you tried reinstalling your version of Nero. My TDK burner came with Nero 5 and the svcd option. I upgraded to 5.540 otherwise try installing a newer version of nero(download from there site and select the upgrade option after the install starts) over the top of your current one. If all else fails you can uninstall it and start over with the cd version you have that came with your writer.

[Causality]

Yeah, I've reinstalled it. A couple of times, as a matter of fact. I uninstalled it and then hunted down every remnant I could find and deleted it before reinstalling. I still don't have SVCD in the menu. Kind of a mystery. Guess I better try Ahead tech support. I have TMPGENC converting that file to MPEG1. The "Remaining time" 'aint exactly.........well, exact is it? It's said there's 8x minutes remaining for half an hour now and it's only at 4%. Would it be faster if I didn't use "Sharpen Edge"?

[myke]

I don't use sharpen edge in TMPGENC. Yea that sounds like a real jipper version you got with your writer. You could also try VCDEASY it's free I'm not sure your drive is supported though you can download it from.
http://www.vcdhelp.com/vcdeasy.htm in the future it does svcd it will burn it also if your writer supports it mine isn't supported by it yet but I've used it to create disc images which I burn with Blindwrite software. Also TSCV another free one if you feed an mpeg2 in it will also create svcd disc image that can be burned with anything that burn BIN/CUE files. These programs are more complex to use but can produce seemless chapters and menus for advancing through your svcd or vcd
NTI cdmaker also does svcd you can see if they have a trial version until you get your NERO working properly.
www.NTIUS.com

[Causality]

Thanks myke! All I need to do now is find how the f#&$ you contact Nero tech support.

[Crzuzz]

Hey,

I don't know if you have your answer yet, but I had the same problem with that 'no svcd option'. But I've searched and found the answer. You just have to go to menu/help/disable the wizzard. And then when you go to file/new there is the svcd option. Maybe this will help you, when you still needed it.

[jacknjt]

when you run nero, chose CLOSE WIZARD, then you will see the SVCD option