Is putting a vcd .dat file on to dvd-r possible?

[adied]

This is a question that ive been asking myself for the past 2 weeks now and for me the answer is NO! Before anyone starts sending me links to handy guides how to do this, ive tried them all and non of them work.

1st. i tried converting the .dat into an mpeg then demultiplexing it and changing the audio rate to 48 khz then multiplexing it back, which on one of the guides said would work but it still said "not a compatible mpeg file".

2nd I then tried the newest SVCD to dvd-r guide which is pretty much the same but you use dvdpatcher to change the birate, but still get "not a compatible mpeg file"

Ive tried using Ulead 2.0, dvdit! se and spruceup but there all the same. The closest i came was when i split the mpeg into an .m2v and a .mp2. it would except hte video but not the audio. I would really like a kind person out there to explain to me what bitrate, frame size, audio frequency and everything else that makes a perfect dvd complient mpeg file. Im obviously missing some thing in the method so please for the sake of my sanity point out where im going wrong.


ps has anyone out there actually put a vcd onto a dvd and it worked?

[Craig Tucker]

I thought you had succeded

http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=137315&highlight=

Yes I have done this, I actually made an XVCD-DVD so that I could fit the entire 1st season of friends onto 1 disc. I used workshop for authoring.

[adied]

Sorry craig about the other post but what i meant was it loaded the mpeg file and created a _ts folder but it still didn't work on my dvd player after burning. How did you do yours? was it just following the vcd-dvd-r guide in the guides section or did you use another method? Ive tried using ulead but when i add the mpeg it says it's not complient. Were your friends episodes PAL or NTSC cause thats where i think im having problems.

[Craig Tucker]

I am at work at the moment, but from what I can remember they were pal. I used ssrc as an external sampling frequency converter within TMPGEnc. And I created mpeg1 files with a bitrate of 950kb/s so that it would all fit on 1 disc. These were encoded from divx avi's. I then loaded the mpegs into workshop, created a 2 page menu and created a disc image. I then burned with nero.

[adied]

Ive got the tuxedo on vcd and i want to put it onto a dvd and i follow the vcd-dvdr guide perfectly but it still moans about not being compatible.

First i change the .dat file to an mpeg using vcdgear

secondly i demultiplex the mpeg file to a .m2v and .mp2 file

then i use ssrc to covert the .m2p file to 48hrz.

Multiplex the two files back together as an mpeg-2 program (vbr) in tmpgenc.
Use dvdpatcher to change the resolution to a dvd compatible one and then try and load it in ulead,dvdit se and spruce but they all say "NOT A COMPATIBLE MPEG"

WHAT AM I DOING WRONG???????????

[Craig Tucker]

There is no need to change the resolution, VCD resolution is compliant for DVD. Perhaps thats where you are going wrong.