TMPGEnc Problem

[Groundsman]

I am trying to reduce a double VCD to single.
I have created MPEGs from DAT using VCD Gear and then merged using TMPGEnc's MPEG tools to make one file. When I load this in to reduce vid/aud it states "Illegal floating decimal point...." and refuses to encode.
Also does same with individual MPEGs. Any help appreciated.

[KingJohn]

Load your authoring program, and drop both DAT files into it, you will hardly notice the join, the DAT file is already a mpeg1 with a little extra code.

I guess you know what your doing, but will both mpeg's fit on 1 CD ?

[Groundsman]

The problem is that they won't fit on one cd as they are, hence wanting to merge and re-encode through TMPGEnc. Reduced with audio at 160 and video around 850 a 1.75 hr film will fit giving above tape quality.
Is there perhaps another dat-mpeg converter that may produce usable mpegs (joint or separate, to be joined later).

[Groundsman]

I have done it-and here's how.
I saved converted from dat to mpeg, as said, with VCDgear, then merged both mpegs into one with TMPGEnc., then stripped sound to wav with Virtual dub, then created avi video file with Virtual Dub. These were then loaded back to TMPGEnc and video+audio reduced with wizard to fit on 80min CD. Slight adjustment to video brightness, sharpness, contrast and gamma and hey presto "Don't Say A Word" ( 1hr 53min) on one cd.

[KingJohn]

But nowhere near as good a copy of what it was like on 2 VCD's

[Groundsman]

Got better results passing merged mpeg through FlaskMpeg stripping aud. to wav then vid to Divx.