I have purchased Movie Series in VCD 1.1 Format. When I burned the *.dat (of course to VCD 2.0 one), the results: 1. The video frame appeared very blocky. 2. The A/V sync problem. The sound stops and play suddenly but the pictures played normal. 3. Images so blocky and jerky. I was so dizzy about this and unable to solve the prob. Anyone can help me please? Thanks very much in advance. Andy Wu

-- Andy Wu (hong_un@hotmail.com), June 05, 2000

Answers

The only way I ever managed to copy a stream from one VCD to another is by converting the *.dat file into an *.mpg file using VCDGear (at www.vcdgear.com), disabling the "Remove CD-i bumper" option. The result I then had to demultiplex and re-multiplex, using the DVMPEG demultiplexer for the former and the Xing encoder for the latter. (Always let the Xing encoder have the last word--at least according to my experience. It won't decode/encode if you choose the right settings--look for "Video CD"--and hence no quality loss will occur. But it seems to be the only program that produces a stream the other programs won't complain about.)

The resulting MPEG stream would burn without a hitch using WinOnCD. Other programs I haven't tried yet for recording VCDs.

It's all very time consuming. If I didn't do all of the above, however, WinOnCD would either refuse to accept the stream completely or claim the 1h stream is in fact 10h long or the result would look the way you described it.

-- Ulrich Schreglmann (ulrich.schreglmann@t-online.de), June 06, 2000.