DVD to VCD: Best quality

[jonny_walker13]

I want to copy all of the episodes of simpsons from my dvd's to vcd to store on my multimedia machine. I have DVD2SVCD with the CCE encoder and need to know how to setup DVD2SVCD for multipass VCD. I have ripped many svcds flawlessly with it, but can't get VCD's to work. Anybody have experience or suggestions for other programs that still use CCE.

Jonny

[mh2360]

Multipass VCD? This suggests you are trying to use VBR(variable bit rate) when making VCDs. A lot of players wont play these. If you want to make a VCD then stick to the standard constant bit-rate (1150). CCE is BAD at making VCDs, I suggest Tmpgenc (works fine with DVD2SVCD), its free if you just want to make VCDs (but time-limited for MPEG2/SVCD/DVD, you have to buy it). There's an INI file for VCD in the Program Files/DVD2SVCD folder, select MISC/LOAD SETTINGS and load it up, but change the audio to 224 kbps...

[jonny_walker13]

Yeah, thats what I have been thinking, but I just don't understand how some copies of newer Simpsons episodes look a lot better than the ones straight off the dvd and are also the same size. So, I was just wondering if there there are any settings in TMPGENC that need to be tweaked to get optimal performance. Thanks for the quick reply.

Jonny

[jonny_walker13]

Okay, this sucks. I just downloaded the last episode of the Simpsons that has obviously been captured with a tv card and converted and it looks better than what TMPGENC produced from a DVD. Anything else that people use for VCD's?

Jonny

[jonny_walker13]

Anyone?

[mh2360]

List the settings you are using with Tmpgenc, anything you have changed from default.

[mrbass]

http://www.mrbass.org/dvd2svcd/vcd/