Is there a way out?

[Turk]

I've run across another strange occurrence. I've downloaded a movie, and unarchived CD1 which ends up as a CUE/BIN. I've burned those a million times (well, maybe a hundred). This one happens to end up with a 938MB BIN file. Now I know there's no way I can burn this to a 80MB CD-R. So I said, I'll convert it to a mpeg and recut it. I fired up VCDgear v3.05 and load the CUE file. This is where I'm having the problem. I'm getting this error message: Could not locate MPEG stream. This happens with both CD1 and CD2.

Any ideas, or have I downloaded a bad movie?

TIA

[12Boiler34]

Have you tried to extract the mpeg stream with isobuster?

[Micro]

This one happens to end up with a 938MB BIN file. Now I know there's no way I can burn this to a 80MB CD-R. So I said, I'll convert it to a mpeg and recut it.

Any ideas, or have I downloaded a bad movie?

The size of the bin file is not related to the actual size on disk.
That size may easily burn to a 80min CDR.

Just a thought.

[Turk]

Have you tried to extract the mpeg stream with isobuster?

Great idea 12Boiler34! I opened it up with ISOBuster and finally got it to the DAT format.
But to my amazement, its still over 900MB. And this file only carries 52min. of the movie.
Something else I thought was strange, ISOBuster showed the DAT file size as 786MB.
But when it was unarchived it grew to over 900MB.

What options do I have now?

1. What about recutting this file/min in half? This would give me four CD's with the two
halves of the movie.
2. Does it make sense to join the two movie halves and recut them to fit on 80min CD-R?
Maybe having three CD's instead of four? Remember, I've still got CD2 to unarchive as
well.

Thanks in advance for any other ideas!

Turk

[Turk]

This one happens to end up with a 938MB BIN file. Now I know there's no way I can burn this to a 80MB CD-R. So I said, I'll convert it to a mpeg and recut it.

Any ideas, or have I downloaded a bad movie?

The size of the bin file is not related to the actual size on disk.
That size may easily burn to a 80min CDR.

Just a thought.

Well, I've tried to burn it with both CDRWin and Nero to no avail.
In both instances I'm asked for a larger CD-R. But thanks for the
idea.

Turk

[12Boiler34]

Well, the next step is your personal decision. It just depends on how many Cd's you are willing to use.

Another way you could try: Try to convert the mpg stream to avi with Vidomi Encoder. If this should works it might clear up things, because you would be able to "analyse" the avi file in Virtual Dub. I also think it is very strange to have a file-size of over 900 MB for a movie with a length of just 52 minutes.

Hope you will be sucessful the one way or the other

[Vapor]

Judging by the size/mins it's an mpeg2 stream. Join all the DAT's with Tmpgenc using SVCD stream type first (just in case it is SVCD standard) and then split again into 795meg chunks.

I would suggest BBMpeg for splitting as it allows you to input a file size to split at whereas Tmpgenc does not.

Might also be worth re-muxing the DAT's first one by one with Tmpgenc (or BBmpeg) using SVCD stream. If the stream is not SVCD standard most burning packages see it as a standard file and will not allocate size based on the mode2 format (hence the request for a bigger CD). Try dropping the restreamed file into nero and see what it says.

Good luck.

[DJRumpy]

Just a though. The original disk was probably encoded for a 900MB CD. I haven't seen these yet, but I've read about them.

[Turk]

Well, I've got some good news. I finally got the movie to CD's.
After taking 12Boiler34 suggestion and using ISOBuster to get
it to a DAT format. I brought the DAT into Nero and tired to
burn it. My plan was to burn it as a VCD, according to VCDquality
the intended format.

Well Vapor I think you were exactly right. Nero pointed out
that it couldn't burn the file under its current format SVCD,
would I like to encode it for VCD. It took a couple of hours
but I ended up with a 512MB MPG file burned as a VCD.

I'm contemplating starting the process all over and see if I can
get it SVCD format, but viewing a small portion of the movie
the quality doesn't justify the time currently spent.

I'm thinking like DJRumpy, this movie was apparently
suppose to go on the 90min CD's, but we fixed that didn't we?

I'd like to thank you all for your expertise in helping a semi-
newbie with this problem. Without your help, I'd probably have
to spend $50 total for dinner and the movie.

Turk