VCD mpg to DVD-R

[hyper]

apart from the audio still being out of sync (solve that later) i wonder if anyone could help me with this; i managed to author my vcd tv eps to dvd-r with dvdmaestro but when i test it in a dvd sw player such as e.g. powerdvd the vcd shows in dvd resolution (720x480) and therefore ugly blocky. i can naturally rescale the window down and it looks like a vcd in quality then.
my questions is, do i have to edit the ifo file so it will show correct on tv or will it show there like a normal vcd anyway? did that just make any sense at all? ;-)

btw: does anyone know why an ac3 file shows the correct lenght in softencode but shows smaller when imported into dvdmaestro?

[Zeppeliner]

On TVs it will use the whole display area anyway so it doesn't matter.

[TRILIGHT]

Why the hell would you want to stick a VW engine in a Ferrari body?? hehe ;) Unfortunately (well, really, fortunately), I don't work with poor quality formats like VCD so I can't help you. If I'm going to spend the time creating something, I'm going to make sure it's in DVD format anyway. Now if this is stuff you've done in the past, I suggest just leaving it on VCD and move forward with real DVD authoring instead of trying to dump VCD onto a DVDR disc.

[hyper]

grrrrr.....its actually a pretty useful concept to store your vcd tveps (and yes they still come mostly in vcd though svcd capturing has made its way to us) on dvd-r. i could easily fit 9 eps on one dvd-r, saves a lot of space and one could go for a power series marathon without having to get up and change the cd-r.
havent had probs with my dvdrips yet either....as long as they're encoded in a dvd manner. but my vcds.....sniff

btw, would anyone know an mpg1 file in a dvd authoring prog is perfectly sync til about min 6 and then goes suddenly out of sync how one would fix that?

[TRILIGHT]

Yeah, I can see the appeal of putting them on DVDR. However, if I were you, I would just start backing your recordings to DVDR in the first place. Leave the VCD stuff on VCD and just start doing DVDR from now on.

As for your audio being fine and then going off track all of a sudden, this is almost definitely a problem with the original recording! I had a problem like this just recently. Everything was perfect on the 2hr clip until about 1.5hr in and the audio seamlessly "jumped track"! It was just all of a sudden out of sync. I could have edited things and cut up the video and audio to force it back into sync at that point but I didn't want to bother. I simply recorded it again the next time it was on (was Harry Potter I was recording for my niece). My new recording was flawless all the way through.

[auenf]

for the audio problem, make sure you are encoding FROM a 48khz file to another 48khz file, letting soft encode handle the conversion is not something that ive tried at all.

Enf...

[hoozdapimp]

yes...and if you're using sonic or something that does the transcoding for you, i highly suggest using something else...

like it was previously mentioned, your audio must be 48khz and 16 bit....so i would try to use spruce up or something with a recoded audio file (use beSweet)