why is vcdimager adding an extra 100 meg to my friggen mpeg?

[ThaSmig]

Anyone got any idea why i try to author a vcd with TSCV and everytime i go to create bin/cue it says that my mpeg has a SHITLOAD of unaligned segments or something similar, anyone know why and how i can stop this from happening??
pz

[vitualis]

Your MPEG is probably in the wrong pack size.

Try demultiplexing and remultiplexing your MPEG with TMPGEnc or bbMPEG.

Regards.

[ThaSmig]

Hey vitualis, i tried demuxing and muxing it back together with TMPGenc and BBmpeg and i still get the same thing, is there any other reason?
pz

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[Betamax]

"TSCV" is this some kind of Gui for VCDimager?
If so, the problem will be here.
I'm writing a GUI myself and I know VCDimager will not mess with your tracks, unless there was some (bad) setting that will do so in the XML.
Can you post a copy of the XML pls?

[ThaSmig]

It isnt when i just use TSCV, whenever i use vcdimager on its own, i get the same problem. Hrm.. this is driven me crazy..
pz

[vitualis]

I doesn't sound like there's anthing wrong with the XML but rather with the mpeg stream itself.

ThaSmig, what are the specs of your mpeg? (bitrate, framesize, framerate, etc.)

Regards.

[ThaSmig]

the specs of the vcd and svcd i have tried it with are

352x240 bitrate=1150CQ, framerate=29.97 audio=160 (Mpeg 1)
480x480 bitrate=CQ_VBR - MAX=1500, MIN=800 @ 60, framerate=23.97, audio=160 (Mpeg 2)

pz

[vitualis]

Okay, your mpeg isn't actually VCD compliant. When you remuxed your MPEG-1 with TMPGEnc, did you try MPEG-1 Video-CD (non-standard)?

This may help.

Regards.

[ipf123]

I had a similar problem before when I use Tmpgenc to cut a mpg file into 2 parts. The size of the two bin files created by VCDImager were both about 100 Mb gretaer than the individual (cut) mpg files. Since then I have stopped using Tmpgenc to do the cutting. If I want to convert Divx to Mpg, I usually cut the divx file with virtualdub, then encode with Tmpgenc. This way I will end up with two mpg files which will fit nicely into 2 cds and avoid having to cut the mpg files.

[ThaSmig]

hrm, i cant remember vitualis, but thankyou for the insight, will try that go next time. thanks again

[AntnyMD]

I also experienced the 100mb add-on thing (actually, VCDImager/TSCV turned my 702mb file into a 900mb bin/cue; broke my heart). I'm making a 100% VCD compliant disc using the latest versions of TSCV and VCDImager as of 1 Sep 01.

Before I upgraded I made a bin/cue using previous versions of the gui and backend, and ended up with a smaller file, more like the size of the actual MPEG-1. I thought I'd do well to use the latest versions of both, so I overwrote the proggies with the updates. What a mistake.

The use of the number keypad for entrypoint selection is really neat, though. I love that.

[AntnyMD]

Interestingly enough, this morning I made a bin/cue from a different, but still 100% compliant VCD encode, and TSCV/VCDImager only added 12mb of overhead to my bin/cue. What gives?

In my situation with the 702mb MPEG file yielding a 900mb bin/cue, it was a 352x480 xSVCD encode. Does VCDImager dislike strongly off-spec encodes?