VCD Correction

[thegorm69]

Okay I've made a VCD onto 2 discs, and it played perfectly on my computer (before I burned them). Then I burned it to cds and they don't play right in my dvd player, or when I put them in my computer. Every few minutes or so the sound makes a click or gets choppy for a second, and it's noticably irritating. I know that it is not a cdr problem. What my question is, can I copy the file back to my computer and somehow correct the mpg and then re-burn it?

I burned the 2 files in Windows 98, and all my discs seem to have problems in Win 98. When I burn them in Windows 2000, my vcds play fine. Of course I have already deleted the original mpgs, so that's why I was wondering if I can correct it.

[liquid217]

why do you say that its not a cdr problem? ive experienced a similar situation, and i found that if you burn at a lower speed, the audio pops go away.

To answer your question, locate the dat file in the mpegav folder. Rename this with an mpg exptention and you have your mpeg back.

[thegorm69]

Thanks for the reply,

I know it's not a cdr problem, because my dvd player plays any kind of cdr fine. And I've used this paticular discs many times.

Okay, I know I've got the mpg back on my computer now... but it still needs correction because it still has the same problem. Is there any tool that might fix it?

[liquid217]

what do you burn with? nero will automatically scan the mpeg to see if its vcd compliant.

[thegorm69]

Yes, I use Nero to burn the mpgs. They were vcd compliant.

[liquid217]

just for the sake of humoring me, burn at a lower speed like 4x, its only a blank. I think you will find that it will fix your problem.

[thegorm69]

Alright, just to humor you I will burn it at a lower speed. I have about a million blank cdrs so it won't hurt.

I'll let ya know. I'm still being skeptical though

[thegorm69]

I still have the same problem. What I need is an VCD corrector... if there is such a tool out there.

If not, no big deal. Thanks anyways

[liquid217]

oh well, it was a good idea anyway

I don't believe there is such a program to correct errors in the stream, but you might try demuxing the file and then remuxing it, i have heard that this corrects some errors. The only true way of eliminating errors in a video file is to reencode it, but you will have a loss in quality. By the way, demuxing and remuxing can be handled with tmpgenc.... Once you get it, look under file....mpeg tools...

Hope that helped some.

[mpb]

You may not have a bad burner or media, but that sounds an awful lot like a faulty session. I've run into that at times due to magnetic or electrical interference, even such things as humidity. It's unlikely you will run into the problem again, but for now, I'm sorry to say you're probably screwed.

[thegorm69]

Yeah, I'm thinking that too.
I will try a couple of things, as mentioned above but I'm not going to really worry about it. I will just have to redo the whole process some other time.

Thanks for the replies.