SVCD to VCD - TMPGENC CAN'T READ D2V

vcd_pat · Sep 25, 2002

I have 2 movies that are in SVCD format, both created with DVD2SVCD from original DVD's and burnt to CD-R's and a friend wants me to convert them to VCD for him. I've used ISOBUSTER to extract the MPEG file, gone through the creation of D2V and MPA file with DVD2AVI (using Chickenman's Great Tutorial) but when I try to load the D2V into TMPGENC to start the conversion to VCD it says it cannot read the D2V or it's unsupported. Is there another way I can get TMPGENC to recognise the D2V or some other easy to use software to do the conversion with. Thanks.

eDealer · Sep 25, 2002

A basic principle question:
Does TMPG recognizes the file if you load it directly as MPG2 with loaded MPG1 Template ??

Denexo · Sep 25, 2002

Just copy the mpeg file from the cd to your hard disk and try to open (browse) it with Tmpeg.
If Tmpeg fails to open this mpeg file go to mpeg tools then: Simple De-miltiplex import the mpeg file and this will give you the video and audio files seperate. If ready you can then browse the video and audio file with tmpeg and convert then as you want.

ChickenMan · Sep 27, 2002

Make sure the file dvd2avi.vfp resides in your TMPGenc folder, if not just copy it to there and TMPGEnc will then recognise your *.d2v file.

As said in Step 1 of the Tutorial,

2. Copy DVD2AVI.EXE and DVD2AVI.VFP to the same folder where you copied TMPGEnc. NOTE: Its essential that DVD2AVI.VFP be in the TMPGEnc folder.

ChickenMan · Sep 27, 2002

eDealer said:
A basic principle question:
Does TMPG recognizes the file if you load it directly as MPG2 with loaded MPG1 Template ??

TMPGEnc does not recognise a SVCD Mpeg2 file unfortunately, thats why the use of DVD2AVI is needed.

eDealer · Sep 27, 2002

Sorry ChickenMan,
but when I load the Video/Audio Stream (*.mpg) directly as MPG2 in TMPGEnc v2.58 Plus to convert it MPG1 conform with the Pal Template, it works great?!
I have installed the DVD2AVI.exe and DVD2AVI.VFP, but both NOT in the TMPGEnc folder!!
I understand, that he basicly wants to use an *.mpg, not an *.vob file to convert his SVCD to VCD, so why I have to use DVD2AVI?? To have separated Audio and Video files for use in differend coding programs, a demuxed version will also do?!

I don´t offen use TMPGEnc becorse my favorit is CCE.
So, do I have a thinking problem ??

minion · Sep 27, 2002

As any Good Tmpgenc user knows that Tmpgenc can be very Picky with the Mpeg files it accepts so that is why Useing DVD2AVI is the only solution when tmpgenc will not accept the mpeg2 file..In my experience DVD2AVI decodes the Mpeg file faster than the decoder used by tmpgenc so useing DVD2AVI can be advantagious..Pluss Tmpgenc has problems with compressed Audio formats so if you can get away with not re-encodeing the audio the better off you are...

ChickenMan · Sep 28, 2002

eDealer said:
Sorry ChickenMan,
but when I load the Video/Audio Stream (*.mpg) directly as MPG2 in TMPGEnc v2.58 Plus to convert it MPG1 conform with the Pal Template, it works great?!

Then you MUST have some MPEG2 codec installed in your system that TMPGenc is able use. Not everyone is so fortunate. TMPGEnc CANNOT READ an MPEG2 as a SVCD file directly. DVD2AVI can read in any MPEG2 file, be it in the form of a VOB or a SVCD MPEG2 file and frameserve that data to TMPGEnc, thats why its used.