Burned VCD is missing the MPEG, but has all the folders.HELP

colorider wrote on 8/14/2003, 12:00 AM
I burned a vcd for the first time and when I go and check what was burned to the disk, all the folders are there, but the most important one (MPEGAV folder), the mpeg movie is not in there. What is in there is a DAT file named AVSEQ01. When I have used other editing software, there is a normal mpeg movie file in this folder. It will not play in my dvd player whereas my vcds I made with pinnacle do play. The pinnacle vcds have the xxxxx.mpeg file in the folder rather then the DAT file. This DAT file contains enough megs of info to be the movie, but is not one. Please, any help you can give me would be great. I followed the instruction manual to the word. It was an mpeg-1 file I was using too, so there should not be a problem there. Also the kpbs bitrates fall within nero's guidlines and the audio is set at 44.1hz. Burning with NERO. I can play the DAT file in windows media player, but want these disks for the tv.

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lnetzel wrote on 8/14/2003, 1:22 AM
on a VCD Compliant it's a DAT file.. and you can just copy that to your disk and rename it as mpeg if you want, it's still an mpeg file. If you made a VCD with some other author that kept the mpeg extention, it's a weired authoring software and not following the right standard. Use Nero and get the DAT file and everything is fine...

I would recommend you convert he file to mpeg in TMPGenc using a VCD template.
colorider wrote on 8/14/2003, 10:18 AM
Thank you. So what you are saying is that even though the file is labeled xxxxxx.dat, it is actually the mpg file and we are good to go and my dvd player ( which is vcd compatible and has played them before) should play it with no problem.

The software I used before was Pinnacle S8 and instead of a DAT file it was labled as an mpeg. They played fine in my dvd and my cdrom in the computer. The software was total crap so the fact that that format is not the standard does not suprise me.

Another question is how do I get the VV vcd to play in my computer cdrom. It does not auto start when the disk is inserted.
Haw1144 wrote on 8/14/2003, 11:05 AM
How do you convert the file to MPG with TMPGenc? Do you need to render it out of Vegas uncompressed (DV format?) then use TMPGenc to encode/convert that AVI file?
donp wrote on 8/14/2003, 11:22 AM
Haw1144, yes, just render a DV compliant AVI with Vegas, transcode the AVI in TMPEGnc to mpeg-2 using 2 pass VBR and ES Video and Audio to get separate Video and Audio files. I use Besweet to then transcode the .wav audio file to an .ac3 file. Then it all set to go.
colorider wrote on 8/14/2003, 12:18 PM
SUCCESS!! got it worked out. Quality is acceptable concidering I am capuring from an analog HI8 for my vid projects. Thanks for all the help. This forum is a wonderful information tool