I'm new to the VCDing game but having worked through various guides I've managed to produce a complete MPEG movie, but when trying to split it using TMPGEnc and the Merge & Cut option I always end up with a File that is not an MPEG and refered to just as 'File'. This will neither do anything on its own and when I drag it into Nero it only creates an image file which also does nothing. I'm probably being real stupid but as I'm new to this can anyone help and point me in the right direction so that I can burn this movie onto VCD's.
Great, said I was being stupid. I've now got two VCD size files that work. Thanks.... Next problem I have is with an '.avi' file that I have downloaded from KaAza. When I run it through Nero it starts to encode but only reaches 16% when everything freezes. It is the second of two files and the first one worked fine... Any suggestions ???
Try using this guide to help you encode your .avi files: http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/4713 If you have any problems look at this: http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/5039
Never use TMPGEnc to split/merge .mpg/.dat files from (S)VCD source. TMPGEnc does not handle it correct way. Not to go into deep details I have found out that it simply deletes padding stream. After that .mpg/.dat file starts to be not compliant to the appropriate standard. Use instead DVTools. It does split/merge oreration correctly.
