Problem with changing mpeg-2 to mpeg-1

[joopi]

OK, well i've been trying this all day with no luck.. maybe someone here can help me?

First off, my dvd player (Panasonic RP56) Doesn't read SVCD's well, its a little choppy.. VCDs are fine though.. so here's the problem.. I want to convert my SVCD (MPEG-2) to VCD (MPEG-1), but I can't seem to do it. It says with CD mage you can simply extract the movie (mpeg) from the bin/cue (what i have) but that doesnt seem to work. I try to multiplex it to mpeg1 in TMPGEnc but it gives me a buffer underflow error (whatever that is) so that wont work. If i try to do anything with it in VCDEasy it says its just a dat renamed to mpg so i need to convert it.. If i do this, i still have no luck with converting to mpeg1. What am i supposed to do with the cue/bin to extract the movie? Is there a conversion program or what? because this whole taking the large file from the mpeg folder of the bin file isnt working. If you need me to supply any info to help solve this problem i'll be chacking back here very often, I've just about given up!!!

[markums2k]

This might be a long work-around, but you could burn the image to a CD-RW (so as not to waste a disc), then follow this guide for ripping SVCD to DIVX:

http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/svcd2divx.htm

Obviously, don't follow the last few steps. You don't want a DIVX file, but this will help you get the video to a point where you could re-encode it with TMPGEnc back over to MPEG1.

And that's one way to go about it.

[joopi]

ok.. but theres no vob files in the image... is that a problem?

[markums2k]

err... I can see where it got a little confusing. VOB is what you'll get from a DVD rip. Those guides jump between SVCD ripping and DVD ripping. If you can continue by selecting the MPG file(s) instead of the VOB(s), you should be okay. The key thing is to get that D2V file to generate.

[joopi]

OK, well i got as far as converting to the audio wav file, but now what? Also does GKnot create an MPEG file i can burn with nero as a vcd?

[markums2k]

Sorry to get back to ya late. GKnot is for AVIs, I listed it just as an example. You'll be interested in encoding the .d2v and .wav files using TMPGEnc. TMPGEnc does MPEGs, which is what you need for VCD, SVCD, DVD. Forget Gknot even exists. Forget.