SVCD to VCD, Possible?

[NifTBean]

I had such excellent luck the first time posting here, that I thought I would throw another question out to the general populace. I have a slew of SVCDs that do not play on my DVD player. So, i would like to convert them to a Toast friendly VCD which all DO play on my DVD player.

The major problem I've run into is that for some reason my Mac doesn't read these SVCD discs at all. It tells me that there are no readable volumes. Luckily I also own a PC, so i can get the MPEG files from the discs and transfer them to my Mac. What would be the best way to go about making them into a VCD. Also, is there a way I can make my Mac read SVCDs?

I have access to almost every piece of Video software out there, Cleaner 6, QT Pro etc...

I am running a dual 867 Mhz G4 with 1 gig of RAM.

Thanks a lot
-niftbean

[thomasbbb]

- try vlc 5.0 from videoLAN to play SVCD disks on your Mac... I have done it many times...

- it would be a shame to convert your SVCDs to VCDs... the image is far superior with the former... in fact, VCDs seem to be out of focus all the time..

- are you sure your player does not support SVCD? ceck your model with the compatibilty list of DVDr help: https://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers.php

SVCDs are burned in many different ways... try burning one yourself, perhaps using ffmpegx/toast (multitrack CD-ROM XA), to be sure.

hope that helps

[AntnyMD]

Being able to play the SVCD with VideoLAN won't aid in extracting the MPEG off of it to convert to VCD. You'll need VCDGear for that. I've only heard that it works (there are versions for OS X and 9), but I have never successfully ripped (S)VCDs with it on a Mac -- only on Windows.

[NifTBean]

Okay, I checked out my DVD player on that list, and there is a long list of people saying that it will play SVCDs, and an equally long list saying it won't play for them. So i'm sure it will play certain SVCDs, but not others. So i guess I coudl use a little advice on how to take the single AVSEQ02.mpg file I got from the disc and make that into an SVCD using toast or similar programs. is that possible?

[ZeroSix]

get ffmpegX and open your .mpeg file in the TOOLS tab [not at the top]

Check the box to post process and tell it to author as SVCD image. Click on GO. [not encode]

This will give you 2 .img files, usually named something like "1" and "2"... regardless of the file name you will know which one is first and which is second.

Open toast, and under OTHER, select MULTITRACK XA MODE.

Click on the SELECT button and drag BOTH .img files over and ensure that they are in order.

Click OK.

Click BURN.

This is a SVCD.

To convert to VCD from SVCD, i recommend checking out this thread, as it provides a detailed how-to describing how to convert your SVCD .mpg to a Divx .avi file and then how to convert that back to VCD.

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=148457

hope this helps.

[NifTBean]

Okay, i'm trying to do that, only I have a bit of a problem, this is what pops up in my terminal when I try to do that.

[MAChine:~] critchie% pbpaste | sh
sh: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
sh: line 1: `/Applications/ffmpegX.app//Contents/Resources/ffmpeg -i -y -vn -f mp2 -acodec mp2 -ab 224 -ac 2 -map 0.0:0.0 .mp2; /Applications/ffmpegX.app//Contents/Resources/mplex -V -f 4 -S 9999 -M -O 0 -b 230 -o /Users/critchie/Desktop/Movies/Undercover\ Brother\ 1/AVSEQ02.MPG.mpg /Users/critchie/Desktop/Movies/Undercover\ Brother\ 1/AVSEQ02.MPG .mp2; ; printf "Processing complete!\a\n"'

What is the problem here?

[major]

You're running the mux tool, which you should not.

[ZeroSix]

The only box on the right side that should be checked is the POST PROCESS SPLIT & AUTHOR

and the only box on the left would be AUTHOR AS SVCD.

[Gray Fox]

Okay, i'm trying to do that, only I have a bit of a problem, this is what pops up in my terminal when I try to do that.

[MAChine:~] critchie% pbpaste | sh
sh: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
sh: line 1: `/Applications/ffmpegX.app//Contents/Resources/ffmpeg -i -y -vn -f mp2 -acodec mp2 -ab 224 -ac 2 -map 0.0:0.0 .mp2; /Applications/ffmpegX.app//Contents/Resources/mplex -V -f 4 -S 9999 -M -O 0 -b 230 -o /Users/critchie/Desktop/Movies/Undercover\ Brother\ 1/AVSEQ02.MPG.mpg /Users/critchie/Desktop/Movies/Undercover\ Brother\ 1/AVSEQ02.MPG .mp2; ; printf "Processing complete!\a\n"'

What is the problem here?

Hi, see my comment about mplex and ffmepgX posted tonight...

Some shells, bash for instance, doesn't like two consecutive semicolons.
Tcsh seems to tolerate them.

--Jerry

[NifTBean]

Okay, on to a fresh new batch of errors in the terminal. When I did all the settings properly (using the tools section, checking ONLY postprocess and author as SVCD) this is what the terminal gives meh

[MAChine:~] critchie% pbpaste | sh
(Super) VideoCD xml description created successfully as `/Users/critchie/Desktop/Movies/Undercover Brother 1/AVSEQ02.MPG.xml'
++ WARN: initializing libvcd 0.7.12 [darwin5.2/powerpc]
++ WARN:
++ WARN: this is the UNSTABLE development branch!
++ WARN: use only if you know what you are doing
++ WARN: see http://www.hvrlab.org/~hvr/vcdimager/ for more information
++ WARN:
++ WARN: mpeg scan: pack header code (0x000001ba) expected, but 0x52494646 found (buflen = 2324)
++ WARN: ...this looks like a RIFF header but a plain multiplexed program stream was required.
**ERROR: input mpeg stream has been deemed invalid -- aborting
rm: /Users/critchie/Desktop/Movies/Undercover Brother 1/AVSEQ02.MPG_02_pregap.img: No such file or directory
Processing complete!

hmmm, maybe someone can help me out on this one too

[NifTBean]

i'll post ALL my terminal problems here. :P This is me trying to use mencoder to convert my SVCD mpg into a divx, and THIS is what I get in the terminal...

[MAChine:~] critchie% mencoder -ovc lavc -oac pcm /Users/critchie/Desktop/Movies/Undercover\ Brother\ 1/AVSEQ02.MPG -o /Users/critchie/Desktop/Movies/MPG/undercover.avi
dyld: mencoder can't open library: /usr/local/lib/libvorbis.0.dylib (No such file or directory, errno = 2)
Trace/BPT trap

AHHH, someone save me!!!!

[ZeroSix]

For your mencoder error, try renaming all your folders to names without spaces in its path. That sometimes helps.

For the ffmpeg error, I suggest running your .mpg file through VCDGear. Do a .mpg to .mpg conversion, fixing bad blocks, and making it toast compatible. Then try to image it again.


lmk.

[major]

dyld: mencoder can't open library: /usr/local/lib/libvorbis.0.dylib (No such file or directory, errno = 2!

When anyone gets this error, it means you're using a mencoder/mplayer binary which did'nt include statically the libvorbis and libogg libraries. So you either install an older version of mencoder/mplayer, or (better) install the libraries
libvorbis and libogg in /usr/local/lib.