SVCD2DVD "too big" - best way to handle th

[mtovey]

I'm a new user, and bought SVCD2DVD in order to burn TV series to DVD. e.g. I've got 13 episodes of a series, each at 300 MB (or more - DVB-S gives me about 1.5GB/episode), and want to burn them to a single DVD.

But SVCD2DVD seems to get it's calculations wrong - I end up with a DVD image that's a little bit too big (by about 200 MB). Nero refuses to burn them. I can use growisofs (Linux) to burn with the overburn option, but the last title usually doesn't play properly.

So I use dvdshrink to reduce the size of the image, so that it fits. This works.

Hassle #1: Basically SVCD2DVD should get the calculation right, or give me the option of choosing the size that I want to have so that _I_ can get it right. Anyone know why this doesn't work, or what I can do to make this work? I'm willing to send logs, etc.

Hassle #2: So long this doesn't work, I'll keep using SVCD2DVD and dvdshrink. But I'd like to keep the video quality as high as possible, and figure that I don't want to re-encode more than necessary. Any tips here?
- Should I let SVCD2DVD encode at the quality that it wants to (will result in 20GB+ DVD), and then use dvdshrink?
- Or doesn't it make any difference to let SVCD2DVD encode a 4.8GB image and let dvdshrink reduce it to 4.7GB?
- Or is there a better option?

Thanks,

Matt

[scotuk1]

Use dvd2one to shrink it ,this should do the trick ..dvdshrink is bollocks .I use the demo of this and i convert upto 2gb .Can you not use the auto fit function.

[mtovey]

Do you mean the auto-fit function of SVCD2DVD? Yes, I'm using it. But it seems to get it wrong...

[ChrissyBoy]

Use autofit but see the following:

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1334458#1334458

Add the key and a value of 200 so that S2D will aim for 4.5GB giving you a further 200MB for "overshoot"

[mtovey]

OK, thanks for the tip - I will try this out.

Uploading 5 GB of data is a bit beyond my means, but can I do anything else to provide you with some debugging info as to what is going wrong here (logs, etc.)? It seems to happen to me regardless of whether I'm taking raw VDR files as input (MPEG PES) or AVIs from "normal" sources.

[ChrissyBoy]

Sure. Post your logs & outline the issue in each case & i will take a look.

[mtovey]

The registry hack has worked for me - my DVD images are now about 30MB smaller than the size limit, and that's good enough for me.

I'm guessing that the problem is due to broken AVIs. I'm taking files recorded from DVB (MPEG-PES) with the VDR software (Linux) and converting them to AVI with mencoder. These files playback from DVD just fine, but SVCD2DVD doesn't seem to understand them completely - when I try to play them within SVCD2DVD I get sound but no picture. And when I click on the screenshot button then I get an exception (posted below).

I could upload one of these files (1GB) to your ftp, if it would help you...

Cheers,

Matt

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