my first SVCD

[supertoom]

just managed to rip my first dvd to svcd. but it took some time! over six hours on my imac G4 using ffmpegx. is there a faster way to do this or is it the time it takes?

another question... the svcd sometimes look strange when watching it. when there are fast movements on the screen the picture looks interlaced. how do I get rid of that?

[galactica]

just managed to rip my first dvd to svcd. but it took some time! over six hours on my imac G4 using ffmpegx. is there a faster way to do this or is it the time it takes? ?

6 hours is quite fast actually 800mx iMac G4? Some people have 12 hours or even more!!!! On my computer which is 1.25 Ghz it takes about 4 hours. Faster way?? How did you do it? which programs......?

another question... the svcd sometimes look strange when watching it. when there are fast movements on the screen the picture looks interlaced. how do I get rid of that?

That happens sometimes! Its part of the encoding process and really depends on what method you use to make the svcd. you may be able to decrease the occurance using another dvd to svcd method, but I dont know what you did for this one............ sooo.............. tell me how you made this svcd.

[supertoom]

yes, 6 hours on an imac G4 800 mhtz.

i riped the dvd with osex and then used ffmpegx and the SVCD (PAL) preset. on two 74 min cds.

so 6 hours is good... ok that's fine... but i would really like to get rid of that interlace stuff when there are fast movements in the picture.

[galactica]

Try using forty-two for dvd to svcd. It may handle the video encoding better (may not)

Or instead of choosing SVCD presents, use HIGH BITRATE DVD but change the bitrate and video size back to svcd settings.

that may help some!

[supertoom]

ok, i'll try that. thanks!

but how fast/slow is forty-two compared to ffmpegx? i read somewhere that it's really really slow.

it would be really great if it was possible to use dvdonex (which is really fast, right?) to make svcd instead of dvd.

[galactica]

yes, the reason dvd2one is sooo fast though is because it doesnt really encode!
it just dropps frames, thats why its so fast.

forty-two shouldnt take much longer. give it a try to find out. I have a feeling it will take a little longer though on your machine. ffmpegx should be able to handle the higher bitrates to decrease the blur you are getting.

Likewise you can always bump it up to 3 disks and get an even higher bitrate. Standard svcd is 2500k/sec. what are you using?

likewise, see what your dvd player will go up to. some go way above that.

also, did you get good sync results? Just wondering cause if you did thats great! it took me a long time to get dvd to svcd to sync!!!!!!!!!

[supertoom]

ok now i tried forty-two (just the sample thing). the interlace stuff is still there. i can't really say if it's more or less then with ffmpegx. and the sync was messed up. when i used ffmpegx the sync was perfect!

but your suggestion is to raise the bitrate? so if i use 3 discs instead of 2, how high bitrate can i use? now i used standard 2500k/s. my dvd-player is a pioneer dv-340... any idea how high bitrate it takes?

[galactica]

unfortunately yours maxes at 2600k/sec.

so anything higher than that and you will get either no playback or flakey playback.

So id suggest running them at 2600k/sec!

Also, high motion video (the matrix for example) will give you some artifacts as i call them! There is nothing im aware of that you can do about this other than just accept that you are downplaying the quality of the origional and its just the price you pay.

trying the high bitrate dvd settings and switching it to 2600k/sec and adjusting the size etc may help

best of luck

[supertoom]

ok now i've tried with higher bitrate and the dvd preset, but the result is the same. i guess there's nothing to do about it. but it's a shame because the interlace stuff is really annoying (and it's a lot of it!).

well i'm going to try with a couple of other dvds and see the results.

but still, it's nice that i managed to make my first svcd, working great with perfect sync and everything!

[galactica]

Yes it is amazing!
but with all the revision of ffmpegx, its getting more user friendly!
You should have tried the 1st version like I did, it was enough to make you really appreciate the introduction of forty-two onto the dvd to svcd scene!

now its much easier.

Sorry about it not helping out much, unfortunately, that the price you pay for decreasing the quality - especaily with high action films. The only way to get around that would be to do dvd to dvd!