MPEG2 file issues error when loaded to VCDEasy

[LeutenantDarling]

I've captured my first digital video tape using Sony's ImageShaker which generated an MPEG2 movie of 1.9 Gig. When I load the file into VCDEasy an error messge pops up saying that VCD 1.1 and 2.0 cannot accept MPEG2. If I click either Yes or No on that message, I get a further error stating that the file's 720x480 resolution is not valid for NTSC.

If I use the SVCD setting, then I only receive the resolution error.

I have a few questions on this:
1: Should I just recapture the entire tape over again and save it as an MPEG1?

2: Can I convert this MPEG2 to MPEG1?

3: Being that this movie goes beyond the capacity of a CDR, is there burning software that will span cd's?

And...

4: Do DVD players that play VCD's also play SVCD's?

Sorry about so many quetions all at once but I'm new to this and I just had all these pop up at once.

Thanks,
LD

[troyvcd1]

Do you have svcd box checked in main menu screen

[Alf55]

Troy is right your first problem is that you don't have the SVCD 1.0 checked at the top.

The standard resolution for SVCD is 480x480 so there is a good chance 720x480 won't work on you DVD player (try burning on a CDRW first to see). This would be a XSVCD because it does not comply to the SVCD specs. If it doesn't the you'll have to resize the res to make a compliant SVCD. Also not all DVD players play VCDs.

You can cut your MPEG with various programs so that it will fit on a cd (also note with VCD/SVCD a 700MB CD actually holds about 800MB because there is no error correction.

Take a read through the guides here they should answer most of your questions.

[LeutenantDarling]

The fix is to use TMPGEnc, which does both the conversion and the cutting of the file at the same time. From there it was easy to get the whole thing onto VCD.

Only complaint I have is that I wish I could get better quality with
MPEG1 -->VCD , while it's not that bad, I can still see some pixelation in certain areas.

Nonetheless I got what I wanted.