Strangely amusing...

[Kingnog]

I know the title has nothing to do with the post, but it got you in here, didn't it ? Anyway, I am using DVDx to convert the DVDs. Its the only thing that works for me...beleive me, i've tried everything else. But thats not my problem. I dont want to burn a VCD, because there is always pixelated "movement" around anything that moves, even with motion search on the highest (I would appreciate help on how to fix this..?) However, my main problem: When i make an SVCD, there is an "empty spot" in the sound about every 5 seconds....very strange. Any idea why? and how to fix it?

[kitty]

Clean the needle on the phonograph

Sorry, couldn't resist a strangely amusing comment on a Friday

[thxkid]

Try uping the bitrate on your VCD, providing your DVD Player will play VCD's higher than the standard 1150 bitrate, I don't do a VCD less than 1600 bitarte and really like them around 2000 to 2300 bitrate.
SVCD problem, does the SVCD play fine on your computer then the problem is when you put it into your DVD player, your player may not support SVCD's.

[ahfairley]

Cosmic dust. Use mylar sheathing.

[baker]

Use my vcd guid or cvd guiude.

Baker

[Nelson37]

VCD bitrate is LOCKED and cannot be changed. If you do so, you no longer have a VCD. You could call it an XVCD, but then you could call it BOB and still convey as much useful information.

On your sound skip, try lowering the bitrate on SVCD (it's still an SVCD), also try changing audio from 44 to 48 or vice versa, but at 48 it is now an XSVCD, or BOB.

I don't like the "X" as all it does is tell you what it is NOT, rather than what it IS.

[maxwell_1874]

Another sound skipping question with DVDx...

I'm trying to encode bonus material from the second disc of Lord of the Rings into mpeg 1 format. But the audio skips every 5 seconds or so. I've tried mpeg 1 and 2 and various bitrates...I've tried ripping directly from the Disc and I've tried using Smartripper to copy the files to my harddrive...no luck.

Any thoughts? Thanks.

[xed]

I've encountered the "sound skip" problem with other
programs that encode VCDs. Fixed it by generating an
.AVI file, using TMPGEnc to strip out the interleaved
audio as a stereo .WAV file (Choose "Browse" in TMPGenc,
open the filename, then choose "SAVE" then choose "As"
then pick .WAV file and give it a name).
Once you've done that you tell your program to use
separate audio and video sources. The video source is
the .AVI file while the sound source for MPEG Layer
II audio encoding is the .WAV file. This should be entirely
unnecessary, but I sometimes have to go through it.
Intervleaved digital stereo audio embedded in an .AVI
should theoretically be treated exactly the same way as
a separate .WAV file with the identical audio info, but
sometimes isn't depending on the encoding program.
For example, TMPGEnc produces problems under
certain circumstances unless this procedure is used,
ditto Ulead Media Studio Pro, etc. etc.
If DVDx can't handle a separate video and audio
source when encoding MPEG-1 files for VCDs, don't
know what to tell ya...

[Kingnog]

Wow, thanks guys. I didnt expect this many responses Thanks for the help. I lowered bitrate for the svcd, and it worked! Finally, after months of trying

[maxwell_1874]

xed,

Your method for eliminating the sound skips worked great! I actually ended up using the program DVD2SVCD which automates most of the steps you described.

And as an added bonus I also discovered that the MPEG 1 encoding method used by TMPGEnc is much, much, much better than the one that DVDx uses.

Thanks again!