Write Centropy AOTC SVCD to DVD

[PaulD]

I admit to being essentially quite lazy about this - I don't (didn't) want to become an expert in DVD authoring to burn these 3 CDs to a single DVD and have it play on my telly. Am I asking for the impossible?

I've tried a few apps such as PowerDirector Pro 2 that lets me drop each mpg on to the timeline but then unfortunately it crashes.

I've used Ulead MediaStudio Pro 6 to drop the mpgs onto the time line there - unfortunately my copy refuses to load the mpgs.

Is there any nice, easy, drag, drop and burn application to write these mpgs to a single DVD or shall I have to resign myself to becoming more aufait with authoring?

Thanks,
Paul[/quote]

[geek rock]

you'll need to convert the mpeg files to dvd-compliant mpeg-2 first, then burn.. you can't just drag and drop.

get TMPGENC and re-encode each mpeg-2.

-Mark

[PaulD]

Would not converting explain why the DVD authoring packages I've tried refused to work with them properly?

Is it out of scope to ask why an SVCD Mpg2 is the same as another Mpg2? I'd assumed they'd be the same.

By the way, thanks for the speedy response - I'm trying it now.

Paul

[geek rock]

there are a few differences, most notably the resolution, this link should explain more..

http://www.vcdhelp.com/dvd.htm

also, it says there is a way to burn the mpeg's you've already got, and just re-sampling the audio first..

DVD-SVCD
is basicly a SVCD authored on a DVD. DVD do not supports the SVCD resolution but it may anyway work and the audio has to be resampled to 48 khz like the DVD-VCD. Read more here how to make a such and download a DVD Sample including a DVD-SVCD here.

http://www.vcdhelp.com/svcddvdr.htm

of course, it'll depend on your DVD player whether it wants to play that type of mpeg or not. converting the mpeg's to DVD - compliant ones will take some time, but it's pretty much guaranteed to work.

hope that was helpful!

-Mark

[PaulD]

Very useful thanks.

I'm following the tutorial here :

http://www.vcdhelp.com/mpeg2tovcd.htm

I've used DVD2AVI (v1.76) to create my .mpa and .d2v files. I've now tried to load the .d2v file in to TMPGEnc but I get an error message saying :

File "f:\blah\blah.d2v can not open, or unsupported."

The path is correct, and no other app is using the file - do you have any idea why this may be?

Thanks for your help,
Paul

[geek rock]

If you receive an error when opening the video or audio

If you can't open the .d2v file please check that you have installed the VFAPI plug-in for TMPGEnc to the same folder and run the install.bat file.
If you can't open the .mpa file try to change the codec reader settings in TMPGEnc under Option->Environmental settings->VFAPI plug-in and right click on the DirectShow Multimedia File Reader and increase the priority to 1 or 2 and try reopen the video and audio.

[PaulD]

Thanks, I'd tried that and it hadn't worked. It looks like the first time I ran DVD2AVI it failed because the resulting d2v was only a couple of k, I've just run it again and got a 172Kb file which now opens in TMPGEnc.

Onwards and downwards

Paul

[geek rock]

hmm..

i'd try taking your AVSEQxx.dat files from the CDs, and renaming them with an .mpeg file extension, then opening those in TMPGENC and using the DVD template in there to encode them..

I don't actually have a DVD burner myself, so i can't really help you much more than that

-Mark

[PaulD]

I might give that a go if this fails, at the moment I've actually got TMPGEnc running nicely enocding my mpg into a DVD Pal mpg. Result

It's going to take a long time to do though - eta for the first CD is about 8 hours at the mo.

Do you tend to be find problems with audio sync when doing this? I think I might let it run for a while then stop it and check that the audio is in sync with the video. It's just a shame I can't carry on encoding from where I leave off - I seem to have to start over again.

Once more thanks for posting,
Paul