DVD to (S)VCD is impossible for me! :(

[sulpher_cider]

Hello all. Over the past year I have purchased a few software titles for the purpose of making archive copies of my dvds on VCD or SVCD. I started out by buying "DVD Copy Plus" by 321 studios. I did this because I heard it actually worked like it said it did, and that the title was about to be pulled from the shelves because of a lawsuit. So I rushed out and paid fifty bucks only to find out that what I bought was a keycode protected shockwave flash tutorial of how to use some bundled freeware I could have found on the web myself. To make matters worse, the freeware it included was so buggy it didn't work.... kept getting audio errors.

So about a month later I rush out and buy "Pinnacle Instant Copy" which boasted of it's amazing abilities. Since it was from a reputable vendor that I had actually heard of, I trusted that It would work as it claimed. It however will not copy copy-protected discs. So I spent anbother fifty bucks on a useless title.

Just Last week I spent another 50 bucks on "intervideo dvd copy" and as with instant copy, it will NOT copy any sort of copy protected discs.

I have also tried other freeware titles such as dvdtosvcd and the like and had NO success.

Help me out here people, I just want to make some archive copies of my dvds that will eventually get scratched to hell if I don't do something. Is there some sort of patch available for my copy of Instant Copy, or Intervideo DVD copy that will cause it to ignore the "halt on copy protected disc" features that lie within. I have read reviews on this website of other people claiming that they got these titles to work, but how? I have spent $150 so far and haven't authored one lousy VCD.

Thanks to anyone Who can Help.

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[presto]

Smartripper is a free program that will rip your DVD's to your hard drive and remove the copy protection.

[poopyhead]

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/141024

[sulpher_cider]

hink you may have misunderstood my question, this tutorial describes how to shrink a 9gb dvd onto a 4.7gb dvd+-r disc. I want to copy a dvd onto several CDR discs in the vcd or svcd format. Also I have tried ripping the dvvd and feeding the ifo file back into some of the above mentioned programs, it didn't work...


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[poopyhead]

https://www.videohelp.com/sefy/?id=intro.html

[MOVIEGEEK]

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=169694

[hoyboy]

I have used easyVCD, available from the tools section of this forum, with great success. The latest version is shareware now(1.16 I think) but there are previous version which you can still download for free which work. I have used this program for the last 6 months with no problems at all- The only thing to watch out for is that it uses Tmpgenc, which only gives you 30 days to trial the MPEG2 function (i.e.SVCD), but it gives you MPEG1 encoding for free.

[thayne]

You have to decrypt the DVD before you can run any of those apps on it. Use smartripper or DVDdecryptor first to copy the files to your hard drive then use the pinnicle app to compress the files to fit on a DVDr

For SVCD's however I would recommend DVD2SVCD with TMPGenc encoder. It's free, and works great, it even decrypts the DVD's for you.

[Hardcoreruss]

Use Eazy Vcd perfect for Noob's, nice and simple

[sk]

Having just discovered that there are TWO programs...One called VCD Easy, and another one called Eazy VCD, and then the Eazy VCD program mentioned here, I thought this would be the perfect forum to ask these questions. I have been struggling with VCD Easy for over a week now. Every time I try to read any of the guides, I can't get through one single guide without having to switch to at least 1 or 2 other ones. I have yet to figure out how to really use/configure it, and have found it anything BUT easy. So, when people are talking about the EASY program, are you REALLY talking about VCD Easy, or Eazy VCD?

Also, I read some disconcerting warnings about NOT using Eazy VCD to rip on the fly directly from a DVD drive because that can generate a lot of heat to the disk and drive. Any feedback on that?

Finally, I keep seeing that VCD Easy has gone to shareware in version 1.16. That is verified by the site.

But Eazy VCD still appears to be free, although the version at the site, 1.15a is different than the AfterDawn 1.15 version. Only a minor difference - vstrip got left out of 1.15.

sk

[CaseyComb]

Okay heres the tools you'll need in the order you will need them:

1. DVD Decryptor or Smart Ripper
2. DVD2AVI
3. TMPGENC
4. VCDEASY

All are freeware. I wont get into how to use them, if you look for guides on this site it shouldn't be to hard to figure out.

[sk]

It appears that there are several options/ways to approach this. However, from my limited experience, using TMPGEnc in the loop resulted in some problems. In my instance, it was not the loss of video/audio synch, it was the loss of the ability to navigate through the final mpeg files that I wanted to burn to my CD, along with losing 10 seconds of audio at the end of each VCD disk. Eventually, I stopped forcing the "FILM" standard, which got me back the 10 seconds of sound, but not the ability to navigate through the files, at least not on the computer. The way I solved that was to use TMPGEnc's tools/SIMPLE de-mux, then took those two files and ran them through bbmpeg. By carefully setting the size limits in bbmpeg, I finally got SVCD more or less the size I wanted, that played more or less ok on my DVD stand alone player. The only program I used prior to that, was cladDVD. It ripped and frameserved the IFO files to the point that I could feed them directly into TMPGEnc. I also made sure I had the right ASPI layer installed for my system, then after TMPGEnc did its thing, I did what I stated above - ran that big 1.6 GB file BACK through TMPGEnc, then into bbmpeg. I'm experimenting with some alternatives now, namely dvd2svcd and CCE instead of TMPGEnc as the MPEG-2 encoder. I'll find out when I get home whether or not it worked. I will say this much - the big "time difference" was not all that apparent to me between dvd2svcd with CCE and cladDVD with TMPGEnc. Although it might not be fair to compare, because I used a 3 pass with CCE, and a different bitrate setting for TMPGEnc. Either way, on my Asus333 machine with 1GB ram, it took about 4 hours, +/- from start to finish.

sk

[RabidDog]

try encoding each half (50%) of your project using the "source range" facility in tmpgenc this should save you a lot of time.

[RayH]

I'm a newbie who just got into this last week. I'm starting to get the hang of it. I've refrained from using payware because I don't know how well it will work. I've used the freeware listed on this site: DVDx, Easy VCD, TMPGEnc, and VCDEasy.

First, I use VCDEasy to burn the resulting .mpg files to CD for compliant VCD 2.0 discs that will play in a home unit. VCDEasy will create .bin and .cue files from the .mpg and will burn the CD. I don't know how to do it with either Roxio or Nero. VCDEasy is free, works, and is quick enough. I'll use Roxio or Nero to burn subsequent copies from the created CDs!

Sometimes, it is necessary to reboot the computer to clear somethings before starting!

DVDx is fairly simple. It supports subtitles. But I've found that for movies without subtitles, it has an audio/video sync problem. The colors are vibrant. But audio/video sync and drop outs don't appeal to me.

But I have found a use for DVDx in helping me select with audio and video file to use with other ripping programs!

For movies without subititles, I've found Easy VCD 1.15 (free) to be a fairly no brainer. You just choose the input files and output location. Play the movie on the software DVD player for a few seconds and rip.

EasyVCD will automatically launch DVD2SVCD and TMPGEnc. You don't have to do anything. It is tedious. But it works. Once TMPGEnc is lauchend, I take out the DVD and watch it somewhere else!

For movies with subtitles, I've found DVD2SVCD good. It's intimidating the first time. But there's really nothing to change in the settings, except to make sure everything (including bbMPEG) is set for MPEG 1. I had to launch the bbMPEG.exe to set the MPEG 1. I just choose the subtitle track, input files, and output.

When using Easy VCD, when TMPGEnc is launched you will notice that there is rendering for both audio and video. When using DVD2SVCD, TMPGEnc is only rendering video. But when the whole DVD2SVCD is complete, there will be an .mpg file with audio.

When using DVD2SVCD, the result will also create .bin and .cue files. I still don't know how to use this with Nero or Roxio. I just take the .mpg file and let VCDEasy make its own .bin and .cue. It only takes less than a minute and then burn. End of story.