Loud chirps on my VCD

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I made a couple of VCD's for the first time, and when I watched them on my computer, they both had loud chirps every once in a while. At the same time the chirps occur, the picture gets funny. This happened about 10 times throughout the movie. I decided to see if they show up before I burn the VCD, and checked the .mpg file, and they were on it too.

The programs I used were DVD2AVI, TMPGEnc, then Nero; and I followed some instructions I found online somewhere step-by-step for the settings. Since I had never done this before, I assumed they knew what they were talking about. I'm wondering if they don't, or if the programs I'm using are not any good for this. If any other information is needed for someone to help me out with this, just let me know. Thanks!

-- Anita Driscoll (Skizzer222@aol.com), July 23, 2002

Answers

.the only time i have ever heard chirps is if the files were merged in tmpg..like as if they were encoded in sections and then merged together to be one big mpeg..the chirps occur at those points...when the chirping is happening to you, is there a scene change or anything? or..is this what you did?

-- john boy (johnbmx4christ@yahoo.com), July 23, 2002.

No, it was a .mpg file that was converted from DVD. It does it in the middle of a scene or whenever it feels inclined, not just at scene changes.

-- Anita Driscoll (Skizzer222@aol.com), July 23, 2002.

.sorry wish i could help.

-- john boy (johnbmx4christ@yahoo.com), July 24, 2002.

The program used to decrypt the DVD *.vob files can create these chirps in the join between two such files. Normal *.vob files are 1GB or so each. Try using DVDDecrypter3.1.0.0 from a link in www.doom9.org. The same is true for that all-in-one program DVDx, whose main claim 2 fame is u don't need to be bothered with decryption as a separate step; data is lifted off, decrypted, resized and encoded to your choiceof MPEG all in one go from the DVD.

-- Mehmet Tekdemir (turk690@yahoo.com), July 24, 2002.

Hey, that DVDx sounds like a pretty good deal. Think I'll check that one out. Thanks!

-- Anita Driscoll (Skizzer222@aol.com), July 24, 2002.


I probably have to rephrase that: DVDx is also capable of producing these chirps and if your DVD-ROM drive is not up to scratch the same can be damaged as well. Read all documentation u can find about DVDx before plunging onto it. Nothing is as simple as it seems.

-- Mehmet Tekdemir (turk690@yahoo.com), July 27, 2002.

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