VCDGear is a program designed to allow a user to extract MPEG streams from CD images, convert VCD files to MPEG, and correct MPEG errors in a single step. It is available for most commonly used operating systems. People requiring transportation of their video materials will find VCDGear useful in getting the video to play on their computer or Video CD player.

http://www.vcdgear.com/

http://www.vcdgear.com/download.html

http://freshmeat.net/projects/vcdgear2/

message board http://www.vcdgear.com/forum

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VCDGear 1.76 final build 040415 coded by Dracore (vcdgear@hotmail.com) Testing and quality control by MACKerMD

 Usage:  vcdgear [options] {@file.lst} inputfile outputfile
Extract/fix MPEG streams and create VCD/SVCD images.

Example: vcdgear -cue2mpg thisvideo.cue videostreams.mpg

Options:

-cue2raw       -cif2mpg       -mpg2bin       -bin2mpg
-cue2dat       -mpg2mpg       -cif2bin       -toc2mpg
-cue2mpg       -nrg2mpg       -nrg2bin       -mpg2toc
-raw2dat       -mpg2dat       -sfd2mpg
-raw2mpg       -dat2mpg

@file.lst            (optional) contains list of MPEGs to process
/v:"vol name"        a 32-char volume label for cd image output
-cfg cfg_file.cfg    specify an alternate configuration file

-track##             extract only track ## from a multitrack image
-r####               force read of ####-byte sectors
-w####               force write of ####-byte sectors
-nobumper            removes CD-i MPEG sequence bumper
-fix                 fix broken MPEG blocks during .mpg output
-noinit              don't add initial sequence during fix
-split               split/separate MPEG files based on GOP timecode
-nopad               don't pad MPEGs with non-2324 sectors
-passive             process a file but do not write output
-toast               generate Toast compatible MPEG files

VideoCD Imaging Options:

-philips             enable Philips SVCD compliant format
-pause###            sets track pause time in seconds.  Default is 5
-pauseINF            sets track pause time to infinite

Use -fix

The -fix option makes sure that your output MPEG file won't have broken blocks. Usually players can handle files with broken(missing) MPEG blocks but I don't know how this will affect the sync timings. I have been told that this option fixes the "slider problem" in the Microsoft Media Player. This may also fix up some areas where screen artifacts, or a sudden display of coloured blocks appear on the screen for no reason.

	This will NOT fix corrupt data in your MPEG stream. (Usually causes the playback software to lock-up or crash). Please use a separate program such as IFilmEdit or M1-Edit MPEG Repair to remove the areas with problems.

Corrupted data within the MPEG stream usually cause garbled blocks to appear. Sometimes these can be corrected by enabling the Fix MPEG Errors (-fix). If you already have the file in .MPG format, you can try reprocessing it using the MPG-to-MPG option.

tar -C / -xvzf /linux/linux_bin/tgzs/vcdgear-1.76-i486-1zeb.tgz

vcdgear176-040415_linux:

vcdgear/vcdgear
vcdgear/CDI/
vcdgear/CDI/CDI_IMAG.RTF
vcdgear/CDI/CDI_TEXT.FNT
vcdgear/CDI/CDI_VCD.APP
vcdgear/CDI/CDI_VCD.CFG
vcdgear/lang/
vcdgear/lang/dutch.lng
vcdgear/lang/english.lng
vcdgear/Changelog
vcdgear/Credits
vcdgear/vcdgear.cfg

vcdgear-1.76-i486-1zeb:

drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2004-07-28 14:25:53 etc/
-rw-r--r-- root/root       549 2004-07-28 14:25:42 etc/vcdgear.cfg
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2004-07-28 14:21:31 usr/
drwxr-xr-x root/bin          0 2004-07-28 14:23:41 usr/bin/
-rwxr-xr-x root/bin     180580 2004-04-17 17:35:12 usr/bin/vcdgear
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2004-07-28 14:21:05 usr/doc/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2004-07-28 14:23:26 usr/doc/vcdgear-1.76/
-rw-r--r-- root/root      3233 2004-04-17 17:46:11 usr/doc/vcdgear-1.76/Credits
-rw-r--r-- root/root      2251 2004-04-17 17:38:39 usr/doc/vcdgear-1.76/Changelog
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2004-07-28 14:22:47 usr/share/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2004-07-28 14:22:52 usr/share/vcdgear-1.76/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2004-07-28 14:22:52 usr/share/vcdgear-1.76/CDI/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2004-07-28 14:22:52 usr/share/vcdgear-1.76/lang/
-rw-r--r-- root/root     13260 2004-02-14 20:36:07 usr/share/vcdgear-1.76/lang/dutch.lng
-rw-r--r-- root/root     12399 2004-02-14 20:36:13 usr/share/vcdgear-1.76/lang/english.lng
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2004-07-28 14:30:40 install/
-rw-r--r-- root/root       646 2004-07-28 14:30:19 install/slack-desc

VCDGear is now used in SVCD2DVD to extract streams from images. SVCD2DVD is written by badger to automate the conversion of VCD and SVCD movies to DVD.

Jimmy Chang has also provided a Chinese language set. Thanks Jimmy! You can download it here.