Quick SVCD->DVD steps questions...

[Gurm]

Ok, I'm actually converting an SVCD to DVD, as opposed to just tweaking the headers with SVCD2DVDMPG.

Here's the steps I'm using:

1. Demux the MPG using TMPGEnc.

Straightforward enough...

2. Convert the MP2 audio to AC3 with BeSweet.

Here I'm a bit unclear - I'm using the BeSweet GUI, and I've just left all the options alone, selected MP2->AC3, and let it go. Is that ok, or do I need to change anything? It has framerate options but I hardly see that mattering with audio... or am I wrong?

3. Upsize the video with TMPGEnc.

Any special options I'm supposed to know about here? I'm just following the tutorial settings. Pretty easy stuff.

4. Mux the video and AC3.

Again, straightforward.

5. Author.

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Anything I missed?

- Gurm

[joepic]

Gurm

I just did a PAL SVCD to NTSC DVD over the weekend. SVC2DVDMPG+ works great if the SVCD is in NTSC format for me but many new items are only available in PAL format.

Here is what I did:

1. The SVCD was in 3 parts (.mpg files). You may have a similar movie. 8) I used TMPGenc (FILE, MPEG TOOLS) to merge the three parts together creating 1 .mpg file.

2. Using the standard NTSC template in TMPGenc to create the .MP2 & .M2V files. The only thing I changed was the audio to 224. This process took about 8 hours on AMD XP2200.

3. Next author with either Maestro, TMPGenc DVD Author or your favorite software.

4. Burn DVD.

The movie is great and quite the HIT for this time of year.

Note: I have a Pioneer DV525 player that is very picky with the audio. This method works for me.

Note2: My Pioneer will play MPEG audio so I did not have to convert the audio using BeSweet.

[Gurm]

I have a ... "similar" movie. Only 2 MPG files though. It's PAL, interlaced.

My current problem is threefold.

1. After converting the audio to AC3 I'm discovering that some authoring tools (like Ulead DVD Movie Factory) don't support AC3.

2. It's too damn big. 5.5GB, in fact. I authored with TMPGEnc DVD Author, and now DVD2One won't squeeze it - says there's encrypted data. *sigh* Might any of this have to do with changing the output video to "non-interlaced"? It looked TERRIBLE if I didn't do this... I ran off about 5 minutes of it and watched it and it was HORRIBLE, lines through everything.

3. I don't know if the player it'll be played on supports MPG audio.

- Gurm

[Gurm]

Ok followup. Found a program that helped me.

It had to shrink my DVD image, and do three other things:

1. Read from disk files, instead of a DVD drive. (Rules out DVDXCopy, and a BUNCH of others...)

2. Decrypt (rules out DVD2One, and a BUNCH of others...), since apparently my files are "encrypted". Bleh.

3. Squish. Duh.

The program that helped me is... DVD Shrink.

- Gurm

[Gurm]

Ok, it didn't REALLY help me.

All right, here's my problem. I'll run y'all through what I did.

I had two PAL SVCD's, 480x5-something, interlaced.

1. I demuxed them with TMPGEnc.

2. I converted the audio from MPG to AC3 with BeSweet.

3. I converted the video with TMPGEnc, to NTSC DVD Standard (720x480 or whatever). Only change I made was to set the source to 4x3 and the destination to NON-interlaced (otherwise it looked TERRIBLE). The video was set to be encoded with "automatic VBR".

4. Remuxed with TMPGEnc. When I was done, the two hours of video+audio were 5.2GB, so I figured I'd squeeze them. Ideally I probably should have encoded with a better VBR or something...

5. DVD2One refused to touch it. Said I had "encrypted video". Odd... DVDXCopy won't run on a file source, etc. etc. finally found DVD Shrink. It compressed the video nicely (and in 20 minutes, too). Problem is, it created the following files:

VTS_01_0.BUP
VTS_01_0.IFO
VTS_01_1.VOB
VTS_01_2.VOB
VTS_01_3.VOB
VTS_01_4.VOB

Which NERO claims do not make up a standard DVD. I tried authoring with Ulead Movie Factory, but I apparently don't have the AC3-enabled version.

Well, I told NERO to ignore the non-conformity, and burn anyway. It came up with something about multisession... grr... well, it burnt but the DVD wouldn't play.

What did I do wrong?

- Gurm