problem with SVCD size / burning - any help welcome :)

[daliborlanik]

After 2 days of encoding ,i finaly finished my first SVCD. Well almost.

I'm using DVD2SVCD with TMPGenc+. Everything wnet fine, but when I tried to burn my .bin files (2 files), i got following results:

first file was reported by cdrdao to be too big to fit 80min CD-R. It was less than 1 second bigger, approx. 3 Mb! (as reported by cdrdao).

I believe this was my fault because I selected 2 subtitle languages instead of one???

I turned on overburning, run "simulate" and everything went fine. When I tried to really burn it, it failed imediatelly after start.

OK, second .bin file was smaller, and i succesfully burnt it onto 80min CDR.

The problem is that this CD is not recognized by my DVD or CD drive!!! I tried loading it on several PCs, and none recognizes it.

I managed to burn VCD CD-RWs earlere and they were always readable on any pc with CD-ROM. Should SVCDs be readable on any CDROM drive as well? (at least to see the folder structure)??

I left all files from this project so i have all temp. files generated on hdd. Is it possible to resume from certain step i.e before the subtitles were added?? I thought i could maybe find necessery steps by examinig dvd2svcd log?

Thanx for any helpfull thoughts,
D.

[Al Bundy]

If you insert a VCD or SVCD in your CD reader/writer or DVD reader/writer you always should be able to see the directory structure.

CDRDAO has the ability to overburn, try that switch for discs that are slightly larger.

If CDRWs do work, why not burn a (S)VCD on CDRW first and then copy it to CDR?

CU

Al

[daliborlanik]

>> If you insert a VCD or SVCD in your CD reader/writer or DVD reader/writer you always should be able to see the directory structure.

OK, so at least i know that the disk should be readable in any newer CDROM drive...

>> CDRDAO has the ability to overburn, try that switch for discs that are slightly larger.

As I wrote in my 1st message, I did try that. It worked on "simulate" and failed on real burn

>> If CDRWs do work, why not burn a (S)VCD on CDRW first and then copy it to CDR?

CDRWs worked on VCD. Now I'm trying to do SVCD. I'll try burning onto a CDRW as well and see what happens.

I'd also ask for help with dvd2svcd - I'd hate to do everything all over again since tmpgenc takes a lot of time to encode and i have all projhect files on the hard drive.

Is there a way to just continue from certain step on? To say "i'll use only 1 subtitle now" (in order to make .bin smaller) and continue from step after TMPGenc finished?

D.

[Al Bundy]

Do you burn to fast for the disc? e.g. disc is 1-16x but burn on 40x.

If possible try burning on the lowest possible speed and see what happens. If CDRWs do work with (S)VCD then it might have something to do with the burning speed.

TMPGEnc has the ability to demux certain streams from the MPEG file. I didn't try it with an MPEG2 file, but there should be a tool in the tools section that can do that for you.
If you have separate audio, video and subtitle streams you can mux them together again. I dont know 'how to mux subtitle streams though. Look in the how-to section for that.

I do not use dvd2svcd so I cannot help you with that one. I use VCDEasy to burn my (S)VCDs. VCDEasy also uses CDRDAO and had no problems with.

[daliborlanik]

>> Do you burn to fast for the disc? e.g. disc is 1-16x but burn on 40x.

No, I burn at lower speeds. I succesfully burned CD-RW VCD at 16x speed. This CD was burnt at 8x, so there is no reason why it shouldn't work. (it didn't report any errors).

>> I do not use dvd2svcd so I cannot help you with that one. I use VCDEasy to burn my (S)VCDs. VCDEasy also uses CDRDAO and had no problems with.

Yes, this is what i used to burn my VCDs as well, but decided to try SVCD, since dvd2svcd offered easy subtitle and chapters creation

Thanx for your help!

D.