Mike777
9th May 2005, 15:06
I am completely puzzled by a problem which I dont see any way of overcoming for weeks now. Maybe somebody here can give me some help on this matter or suggest something?
I have a set of files in .mpg format (VCD MPEG-1) with more files like that being downloaded from internet, so I cannot really ask creator of the file to encode it differently. I can watch them on my PC, I can watch them on my dvd player (it can playback them as files on it) but i need to compile a dvd disc which will have same quality of video (i.e. VCD-quality), but will be dvd 100% compatible. I have done it dozens of times before using TMPGEnc Dvd Author but now it seems something is wrong with MPEG-1 files so I suppose I need to fix or reencode them without loosing quality. Why? because when I import the files into Dvd Author it only sees it as a clip much shorter than it actually is (for example only 7 minutes long instead of being 70 minutes). When I look inside those 7 minutes its only a part of the clip that I need to use. I tried looking at that file with other convertors/encoders but nothing seemed to help me to make this file appear for them as 70 minutes long, not 7 minutes. For example Canopus ProCoder sees this file as 7 minutes long too. VCDGear "fix" option doesnt seem to change anything. TMPgEnc Plus doesnt see more than 7 minutes there as well. Appears to me that time information within that file is wrong. The only program that can see full 70 minutes is WinAvi Video Convertor, but when it reencodes the video the quality becomes very very bad and using it later for my project is not possible because of low quality. Any ideas or suggestions how can I fix those VCD files or reencode them to correctly working files without loosing anything quality-wise.
When watching these files manually on the computer via Windows Media Player or as a file on my dvd player, as I already pointed out, everything seems to be fine - the whole 70-mins video is played back, but I need to use that whole video later for a dvd project.
With best regards,
Mike
I have a set of files in .mpg format (VCD MPEG-1) with more files like that being downloaded from internet, so I cannot really ask creator of the file to encode it differently. I can watch them on my PC, I can watch them on my dvd player (it can playback them as files on it) but i need to compile a dvd disc which will have same quality of video (i.e. VCD-quality), but will be dvd 100% compatible. I have done it dozens of times before using TMPGEnc Dvd Author but now it seems something is wrong with MPEG-1 files so I suppose I need to fix or reencode them without loosing quality. Why? because when I import the files into Dvd Author it only sees it as a clip much shorter than it actually is (for example only 7 minutes long instead of being 70 minutes). When I look inside those 7 minutes its only a part of the clip that I need to use. I tried looking at that file with other convertors/encoders but nothing seemed to help me to make this file appear for them as 70 minutes long, not 7 minutes. For example Canopus ProCoder sees this file as 7 minutes long too. VCDGear "fix" option doesnt seem to change anything. TMPgEnc Plus doesnt see more than 7 minutes there as well. Appears to me that time information within that file is wrong. The only program that can see full 70 minutes is WinAvi Video Convertor, but when it reencodes the video the quality becomes very very bad and using it later for my project is not possible because of low quality. Any ideas or suggestions how can I fix those VCD files or reencode them to correctly working files without loosing anything quality-wise.
When watching these files manually on the computer via Windows Media Player or as a file on my dvd player, as I already pointed out, everything seems to be fine - the whole 70-mins video is played back, but I need to use that whole video later for a dvd project.
With best regards,
Mike