Newbie help with SVCD

[bighousie]

IF the svcd has been made correctly , right click on the .mpg and choose " Open with ..." (for instance Wind. media player or PowerDvd) .

[nimco]

bighousie,

I do that, and my computer locks or does not open this file (a file on the CD disk). Hence Nero 5590 made this SVCD not correctly, but why, what should I check?

nimco

[barb210]

Thanks for your help am trying it now and hopefully it will work. I too have Nero with the plug in but it doesn't seem able to burn the file so I will keep trying your way.

[bighousie]

bighousie,

I do that, and my computer locks or does not open this file (a file on the CD disk). Hence Nero 5590 made this SVCD not correctly, but why, what should I check?

nimco

When you put the svcd in your Dvd-romplayer you should get the following folders : EXT , MPEG2 , SEGMENT , SVCD. Click on MPEG2 and you should get a .mpg file which should be opened in f.i. PowerDvd . What is going wrong ( if so ) when converting to mpg and burning to svcd i can't know!

[nimco]

Thanks for your help, I will try.

[barb210]

When it's finished encoding do I burn with VCD Easy the way I would burn a VCD?

[bighousie]

Yeah, but choose for Svcd!

[barb210]

Thanks will try soon, shall I leave the mpeg compliance check checked?

[barb210]

Encoding seemed to go well but when I ran VCD Easy it scanned okay and started writing then stopped and said error writing data writing failed - buffer underun? Writing failed. What should I do?

[bighousie]

???? I wished i knew! I should say try again after checking if all the settings are OK.

[barb210]

I used the settings on the how to but I will try again.

[fantomlord]

Encoding seemed to go well but when I ran VCD Easy it scanned okay and started writing then stopped and said error writing data writing failed - buffer underun? Writing failed. What should I do?

just the burning crapped out.
does your drive support buffer underrun protection?
were you doing a lot of other stuff in the background while you were burning?
try this: mount your image with daemontools, and do a cd copy and/or try lowering your burn speed(w/or w/out using daemontools)

[barb210]

Thanks, not sure about mounting an image and I don't have daemon tools but I will try lowering the write speed and do it when nothing else is on.

[fantomlord]

you can find daemontools in the tools section.
as far as mounting the image--piece of cake.
run daemontools.
click on the icon in the system tray
select the .cue file

[barb210]

I think I must be the idiot. Have downloaded daemon tools and located the cue file, what do I burn it with?

[barb210]

How can I make a cd copy if I don't have the original, it is on the hard drive of the computer?

[barb210]

Okay managed to burn slightly with Nero, but it cut out after 25%. When I looked at the cd it played ok to start with but then split screens to show another movie that was on my hard drive that I had encoded at a different time and that wasn't to SVCD quality. What do you think I have done wrong?

[bongoj]

I am having very similar problems trying to make an SVCD from a Premier timeline. Choosing the SVCD template in TMPGenc, OK. Is there anything else that needs to be set? SVCD is supposedly 480 x 480, so does that have to be set somewhere? What other settings are required if any? thanks