Help. SVCD to VCD???

[Kestrel]

Is it possible on the Mac to convert a home burned SVCD to a home burned VCD? I use to have an Apex 5131 but that died after 7 months, so I took it back to Circuit City and got a Sony DVPNS315, which unfortunately, does not play SVCD's but does play VCD's. Is there a way that I can go back and reburn them all to VCD? I've tried copying the avmpeg file from them to my HD, but it tells me it is missing something? How can i go about doing this?

Also, most of the stuff I d/l is in the bin/cue format and I used to use GNU vcdtoolsX to convert it to the videocd.img format, then burn it in Toast. Do I need to do this step any more? Are bin/cue's SVCD or VCD? If the select the VCD 2.0 when using VCDtoolsX, will this make them a VCD? What about mpeg2?

[bilestyle]

Is it possible on the Mac to convert a home burned SVCD to a home burned VCD? I use to have an Apex 5131 but that died after 7 months, so I took it back to Circuit City and got a Sony DVPNS315, which unfortunately, does not play SVCD's but does play VCD's. Is there a way that I can go back and reburn them all to VCD? I've tried copying the avmpeg file from them to my HD, but it tells me it is missing something? How can i go about doing this?

Also, most of the stuff I d/l is in the bin/cue format and I used to use GNU vcdtoolsX to convert it to the videocd.img format, then burn it in Toast. Do I need to do this step any more? Are bin/cue's SVCD or VCD? If the select the VCD 2.0 when using VCDtoolsX, will this make them a VCD? What about mpeg2?

you could take the burned svcd and convert to vcd if u wanted it in mediapipe or ffmpegx... from what i've heard (unless it has gotten better recently) vcd in ffmpegx is blocky or choppy or something, do mediapipe might be better..... bin/cue can be svcd or vcd, they are both capable of being packed into bin images. making the img files is only necessary for svcd if you dont have a burner that is compabile with cdrdao.-- u need to do some type of conversion to the video track of the movie u want to convert, the audio will be fine for vcd....

[elreeko]

If you can extract the base video files from your disk you can run them through vcdgears. First convert the file you extract to mpeg then using mpg2mpg create a new file that is toast compliant. All this does is change the header info to make toast and your dvd player think it is a vcd file. It can then be burned as a vcd without noticable quality loss.

[pmcd]

If you can extract the base video files from your disk you can run them through vcdgears. First convert the file you extract to mpeg then using mpg2mpg create a new file that is toast compliant. All this does is change the header info to make toast and your dvd player think it is a vcd file. It can then be burned as a vcd without noticable quality loss.

Hmm...have you done this and had it work? If so could you give a few details. I have only been able to do it using TEMPGenc under VPC (and the trick doesn't always work).

[Ross]

There is a guide "Trick for DVD players that don't support SVCD" on my site homepage.mac.com/rnc that was submitted to me by a Sony owner. It has been reported by many others to work.

[elreeko]

I've had it work on about 95% of svcds. Once in a while you get one that works, but is unwatchable because of the choppiness.

All you have to do (if your player supports this) is take your mpeg2 file and use vcdgear (on mac of course) mpg2mpg and create a new mpg (make sure toast compatible is checked). Sometimes the fix mpeg errors checkbox will give you problems. I now just usually ignore it unless I have a problem file.

[elreeko]

I have never had to remux a file to make it work using this trick (I play my disks on a Toshiba SD375 - I have tested on other machines and the Apex 1100 machines is the only one so far on which the disk would not play) But, then again the apex machine will play svcds.

[pmcd]

I've had it work on about 95% of svcds. Once in a while you get one that works, but is unwatchable because of the choppiness.

All you have to do (if your player supports this) is take your mpeg2 file and use vcdgear (on mac of course) mpg2mpg and create a new mpg (make sure toast compatible is checked).

Hmm...maybe that's why it didn't work with my Panasonic DVD player. I hadn't ticked off the toast compatible option, even though toast burned it as a VCD. I tried several SVCD movies which worked with the TMPGenc trick but they failed with the vcdgear appraoch. Also, using the "sony trick" with MMT didn't work either as multipexing things back togeter generated too many errors and the process quit. For the life of me I can't figure out why it works with TMPGenc (it does fail occasionally). The process seems to be the same.

philip