Using Nero .. Video size/conversion

[swtnhpy]

Hi there...I have just started using Nero 5.5 to encode and burn my vcd's. I am having a problem with adjusting the video quality with DIVX and Xvid Movies. Most of the time the video seems to be wide screen and when I convert and burn it looks as though you are looking through a glass....like the conversion does something to the video. Also, I am having a problem with Tmpeg...When I convert using that and then just burn, my video stream is not keeping up with the audio.. How do I fix both of these??

[andkiich]

Easy solution - STOP USING NERO TO CONVERT FILES TO VCD!!!

It is probably one of the worst encoders on the planet from my experience. Invest in TMPGENc Plus.

[swtnhpy]

Well I tried using Tmpgec BUT.... like I said..I have something going on with that because my video won't keep up with the sound once it is encoded.

[FOO]

The next part of the advice is to stop grabbing Xvids
off the net and expecting them to work.

[xtreemkareem]

Foo is correct. XVID on the net sux. BUt strip the audio from the video and them encode seprately and mux them in tmpgenc. Also, don't change the frame rate (i.e NTSC to PAL). Your DVD player will playback both so don't risk screwing up all the video just for a silly conversion.

[Vejita-sama]

There are several reasons why video/audio sync can be lost, but the most common ones are:

1) Framerate converisons. VCDs should be 29.976fps (NTSC), but many divx/xvid videos are encoded at 15fps, 20fps, 25fps (PAL), 23.976fps, etc. Of which the only one you can easily convert is 23.976fps.

2) VBR Audio. Variable Bit Rate audio is very common in divx/xvid files, most often mp3 audio. TMPGenc does not handle this audio well. You need to generate a wav file and use that as your audio source (see the guides).

But no matter how you slice it Nero sucks! If it works for you and you're happy, well fine (I guess). But you'll get much better quaility from TMPGenc, CCE, mainconcept, etc.

[swtnhpy]

Ok..I love the Divx's because the quality is just so much better. I only got a couple Xvid out of the bunch that I have. The only other problem I have is that when I encode with TMP...the video resolution is 700xsomething on the DivX but when it is encoded, it ends up being 352X400 and it looks as though you are looking through a pop bottle on my DVD player. What is causing that?

[theDruid]

the video resolution is 700xsomething on the DivX but when it is encoded, it ends up being 352X400 and it looks as though you are looking through a pop bottle on my DVD player. What is causing that?

You might want to find out a little bit about what you're doing here. You're converting to VCD (I think - not SVCD).

If you look at the What Is section at the top left of this site, you'll see that VCD has specifications (as do SVCD/DVD etc..)

MPEG-4 stuff you're downloading from the web (DivX, xVid etc..) has no such specifications to stick to in terms of bit-rates, resolutions etc..

If you want a better resolution than VCD, try SVCD or CVD.

However, I would suggest that you get then hang of VCD's first (but don't use Nero to encode, it's a very good authoring/burning app, but a terrible video encoder), then move on to one of the MPEG-2 formats.

cheers,
mcdruid.