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Executioner
24th August 2002, 21:58
Hi gang! I have 2 problems that I can't solve on my own.

1. I've been pretty good at making VCD's with chapters using the Sefty's Guide. Last night, I wanted to make a SVCD of Lord of the Rings on 3 CD's. I'm using TMPGEnc and encoded the movie in 3 parts, 750mb each, using CQ of 75, with the high bit rate of 2400 and a min of 300.

I used Chapter X Tractor to read the IFO and pasted the info into VCDEasy, but VCDEasy said "number of possible chapter entry points:1".

Is it because I made a non-standard SVCD?

2. I've tried using TMPGEnc and the SVCD template for NTSC, but when I click on start, no encoding takes place for VBR. If I change VBR to CQ, then it works and begins to encode. Why??? Do I have a defective template? I'm using TMPGEnc Plus version 2.53.35.130. This one has me completely stumped as to why it does not start encoding using VBR 2 pass.

EDIT:
Hehe, I just found out that VBR does not encode right away. It does it's passes first before encoding. Jeez... I wish I could have found the answer to that question, but I still can't figure out question #1 with chapters.

Executioner
27th August 2002, 05:34
Well, after a lot of trials and errors, I discovered the problem. It was my bitrate. Once I set it to 2520 and did a test run, VCDEasy now allows me to import my chapters using Chapter X Tractor program.