mpeg -> vcd problems

[BoonSaint]

Firstly let me apologise if this problem is a dupe, i tried the search function and came up blank.

Basically i downloaded an mpeg from a website and when i played it, it played the 15mins or so of footage but in media player, power dvd, elcard mpeg2 player and global divx it all gave me a run time of just over 1 minute.

When i went to burn it with nero just to check compatability it picked up it was not a valid mpeg source, i checked the resolution and the bitrate - all vcd ntsc standard, but the audio was single channel 96kb - this didnt explain the length issue though.

I have had this problem before and fixed it (don't remember how).

I tried re-encoding with tmpeg but it only re-encodes the first minute, even using cut function in mpeg tools where i select the beginning and end of the movie, i tried re-writing the header with mpeg corrector but then just get a non-valid mpeg file.

Any help would be much appreciated.

[DJRumpy]

You can use VCDGear's MPeg to MPeg function to fix errors like the one your describing. Look in the TOOLS section to the left for it.

[BoonSaint]

You can use VCDGear's MPeg to MPeg function to fix errors like the one your describing.

I already tried that before i resorted to posting, sorry should have mentioned that probably, it came out as 40mb file. Thanks for the response though

Should probably also mention therefore that i tried vcdeasy and it recognized it as an mpeg stream but the bin/cue file came out at like 20mb and it seemed to write the image before it even scanned the file. Again it only clocked the duration at just over a minute.

[BoonSaint]

also just tried re-recording with ifilm edit and it wont even open it.. before anyone suggests that

[kitty]

VCD true compatability will want stereo 224kb/s

If you demux audio with TMPGenc you can change this in a sound editor & remux.

[BoonSaint]

yep but thats part i plan to do once i sort the video problem which is where the problem lies, it only recognizes 1min or so of video, im trying to solve the problem as we speak by frame-serving to tmpeg via virtual dub which recognized the file as its true length so far its working

[BoonSaint]

Ok, the vdub worked, i simply opened it with vdub frame-served to tmpeg and re-encoded to mpeg1 again, then extracted the wav also with vdub, converted to 224kbps with bsweet and muxxed.

Just explaining because hopefully this will serve someone else with a similar problem rather than becoming a wasted thread.

Thanks to those who replied for your help though

[DJRumpy]

In worse case extremes like this, I use DVD2AVI to fix MPEG errors, serving the MPEG back to an avi. If you have the same problem with an MPEG-2, you can use this fix. It also works on MPEG-1.